Finding your way underwater, preventing getting lost, and not having to navigate with aids like coral heads and sand ripples makes carrying a compass on every dive extremely important. But carrying the compass is only half the battle; you also have to know how to use the compass. Using a compass underwater is different than [...]

Night diving is an extremely exciting type of diving. Night diving offers a glimpse into a word that changes drastically when the sun sets. The opportunity to see creatures that you would never see during the day come out at night. When you dive during the day, you’re able to see much more around you, [...]

by David Miner
In your basic open water certification course, you learned about dive planning and how to properly plan a dive. The dive planning motto is “plan your dive and dive your plan.” You probably heard this a lot in your training course and on your first few dives, but maybe not as much since [...]

Drift diving is a specialized form of boat diving allowing you to drift with the underwater currents during your entire dive. The boat is never anchored or moored and follows the group of divers the entire time. Drift diving allows you to:
 
·         Enjoy the dive more because you don’t have to swim against the current
·         [...]

Why Marine Conservation Should be an Important Part of All Dive Training Courses
by David Miner
Diving is a multi-million dollar business with money being spent on dive training, dive equipment, and dive travel by people wanting to dive on reefs around the world. Reefs are prolific habitats for thousands of species of marine life and have [...]

Night diving is an extremely exciting type of diving. Night diving offers a glimpse into a word that changes drastically when the sun sets. The opportunity to see creatures that you would never see during the day come out at night. When you dive during the day, you’re able to see much more around you, [...]

We all remember from our open water training that our ascent rate should not exceed 60 ft/minute. Some of you may have read or heard about more conservative recommendations for ascending from a dive.
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We all remember from our open water training that a stop at 10 to 20 feet for three to five minutes is recommended before surfacing from every dive. You may have read or heard about “deep stops” or Plyle stops”.
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The Diver vs. Murphy’s Law
by Jeff Petersen
11/2005
Hogarthian diving is generally considered a specific “configuration style ” of back mount cave diving and there are numerous articles out there on the specifics of the Hogarthian configuration. Instead, this article is more about the psychological underpinnings and guiding principals of Hogarthian diving. The Hogarthian mindset and its [...]

by David Miner
Scuba diving is generally not classified or thought of as an athletic sport. Athletic sports like running marathons, football, bike racing, swimming, etc. require large amounts of training and cross training on a weekly or daily basis. There are training programs, coaches, personal trainers, books, etc. for probably every athletic sport today. [...]