Monday September 6th 2010

Scuba Diving

Book:  The Diving Manual

Book: The Diving Manual »

ISBN-13: 978-0953891924 Review This book is a very good introduction to diving covering all of the basics and [...]


Media

Underwater Art »

Creator of the world’s first underwater sculpture park, Jason de Caires Taylor has gained international [...]


Marine Life

Blue Tang »

Blue Tang

Acanthurus coeruleus Introduction The Blue Tang is part of the surgeonfish Family and is known by many different names; blue barber, blue doctor, blur [Read More]


Equipment

Wet, Dry or Semi-Dry? Wet, Dry or »

Water conducts heat away from the body 25 times faster than air - so it is quite easy to [...]


Scuba Kit List Scuba Kit List »

Okay, so you should have all your basic kit by now, time to move onto the more expensive [...]


Basic Kit List Basic Kit List »

Although when you first start to dive you will probably hire club equipment, as it is [...]


Safety & Medical

Decompression Illness/Sickness »

Decompression Illness/Sickness (DCI/DCS)

What is DCI? The air you breath from your cylinder (as you should remember from your initial dive training!) is about 78% nitrogen. As you dive and the ambient pressure increases, some of that nitrogen is absorbed into your cells (I’m not going into partial [Read More]

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