Learning to correctly assemble your SCUBA gear is definitely a life-saving lesson. You need to be absolutely sure that your SCUBA is working correctly before you dive!
It’s all very well discovering a fault while diving in the relative safety of a swimming pool, you can safely and quickly surface, but discovering the same fault at [...]
A SCUBA Diving fitness test? Well how hard could it be? I run miles every week, circuit train and even do a bit of Pilates now and again, this was going to be a doddle… I hoped!
Swim 12 lengths of the pool… 4 lengths breast stroke, 4 lengths front crawl, 4 lengths backstroke… easy… why [...]
It’s important that your learning environment holds as few challenges as possible, learning to dive in open water could present many unnecessary dangers and so most SCUBA diving lessons are carried out in a nice, warm swimming pool!
I decided to learn to dive in one rash moment standing at the side of Dosthill Quarry in Tamworth! I’d been assisting a friend prepare for their first open water dive and so had a instant crash course in diving equipment, and that’s what did it…
You see I’m a sucker for technical stuff, gadgets, engineering [...]