scuba diving safety

Solo Scuba Diving Safety Tips [Video]

Solo Scuba Diving Safety Tips [Video]

Solo divining, once seriously frowned upon, is rising in popularity and becoming more accepted with the proper training.

When you are solo diving you must be prepared to be your own buddy because, in the event of trouble, there is no one there to lend assistance. 

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Scuba Diver Sucked Into Nuclear Plant Pipe [Video]

Scuba Diver Sucked Into Nuclear Plant Pipe [Video]

Curiosity about a huge underwater structure got this diver into a bit of trouble with Delta-P.

This post is serves as a warning about the importance of avoiding unknown underwater structures.

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Survival Techniques For Dive Catastrophes

Survival Techniques For Dive Catastrophes

It goes without saying that preparation is the only way to deal with highly unlikely and unforeseen incidents.

This post reviews 10 catastrophic situations that a diver may face as presented by scubadiving.com. 

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Scuba Diving Fatalities Due To Heart Attacks and Strokes Are Now A Leading Cause of Diving Fatalities [video]

Scuba Diving Fatalities Due To Heart Attacks and Strokes Are Now A Leading Cause of Diving Fatalities

As scuba diving becomes more popular and divers age, there has been a rise in the number of diving related fatalities due to heart attacks and strokes.

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Scuba Diver Piggybacks Tourist To The MS Zenobia [video]

Scuba Diver Piggybacks Tourist To The MS Zenobia

Well, just when you thought you have seen it all in scuba diving craziness….

I came across the following post and video on aurigator.uk website covering a scary and unthinkable.

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Australian Shark Rescue Drones To Save Lives [Video]

Australian Shark Rescue Drones To Save Lives [Video]

Australia is in the process of testing rescue drones to patrol for sharks and save lives.

The “Little Ripper” rescue drone, as it is called is an emergency response drone. 

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Diving Tips For Handling Vertical Currents [video]

Diving Tips For Handling Vertical Currents

Vertical currents are especially challenging for divers.

The safest way to handle vertical currents is to avoid them.  Vertical currents typically occur near the face of a a wall or open ocean pinnacle.  

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Divers Do Stupid Things [video]

Divers Do Stupid Things

Mark Powell explains, without the intent of offending anyone, that divers do stupid things because they are stupid.

If you take a moment to examine most diving accidents, as pointed out in the post referred to here, it is easy to understand why you would have to agree.

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Coast Guard Rescues Scuba Divers Lost At Sea [video]

Coast Guard Rescues Scuba Divers Lost At Sea

It is hard to believe that it is possible to become lost at sea while scuba diving. However, it happens more often than one would think.

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Scuba Diving Tips To Become A Better Scuba Diver

Scuba Diving Tips To Become A Better Scuba Diver

The advice and recommendations of others goes a long way at making you better at whatever you are doing. That includes scuba diving.

Here Mark Newman of Scuba Diver Magazine does a great job at sharing 25 tips that can make you a better diver.

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