Basic Dive Equipment
As with all sports some specialised equipment is needed for diving. Below is a list of basic equipment that will help keep you safe and let you stay warm while in the water.
As with all sports some specialised equipment is needed for diving. Below is a list of basic equipment that will help keep you safe and let you stay warm while in the water.
If you are a SCUBA diver, then it is of utmost importance that you participate in the proper diving equipment maintenance so your equipment stays in good condition.
Within the diving community there is a very active and at times colourful debate about equipment rigging and how to do things with 1001 different views, whys and wherefore’s. One area in particular which demands very serious consideration by every diver, is that of which regulator to donate in an Out Of Gas (OOG) scenario [...]
A 10m (32ft) sperm whale has died after becoming stranded on rocks on the Northumberland coast. The mammal, which experts think weighed about 20 tonnes, was found at Beadnell Bay near Seahouses on Monday. The British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said the whale was alive for a time, but could not be saved as [...]
Suits are one of those essentially personal bits of equipment and can either be bought “off the shelf” or “made to measure”. There are a number of choices:
Washing your diving gear after diving is important because it will help keep your diving gear in working order and extend its life. All diving gear is an investment, so it is worth the time and effort to clean it properly after each and every dive.
Hal Watts was warning divers to: Plan your dive: dive your plan, when a buoyancy control device was an empty bleach bottle with a loop of clothesline tied through the handle. Watts, one of the most colorful, popular and intelligent “pioneers” of technical diving, explained that the most dangerous thing about diving is divers themselves. “We do not belong down there and poor decisions and complacency lead to mistakes,” he says.
There is a great deal about photographing reef creatures that involves technical minutiae. F-stops, strobe power, focus, direction of light, color temperature, film choice, and simply the task of keeping the water on the outside of the O-ring are all technical challenges.
First rule of learning to dive – there is no ‘best’ agency, only the one that is best FOR YOU. Don’t rush into it, decide what type of diving you want to do, check out your local shops, check out your local clubs – then work out which is best FOR YOU. The following article [...]
JOHANNES DIDERIK VAN DER WAALS 1837-1923 Amsterdam University 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. This tends to indicate that he knew his stuff. OK. The simple rules for gases about pressure, volume and temperature that you learnt in Scuba for beginners are only [...]