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Scuba Diving - How to Communicate Underwater?
The ability to effectively communicate with dive companions underwater is essential to any diving team. Thus, it is necessary to learn sign language techniques or basic diving signals to be able to convey important messages to your dive companions while cruising the depths. Using hand signals is just one of the few measures employed as [...]
How To Choose A Scuba Tank
Every dive shop, dive boat, and scuba diver uses scuba tanks. While we all have used the standard Aluminum 80 cubic foot tank, we have seen a great many different size and shapes in other scuba tanks. Each of the “different” scuba tanks have a unique advantage/disadvantage, use, and cost. How can you choose the [...]
How to Select a SCUBA Mask
When you are snorkeling and you get water in your mask you simply raised your head out of the water, lift the mask and let the water drain. While diving, you cannot raise your head. You need to secure the mask at your forehead and exhale from your nose to clear the mask. Because you [...]
Improve Your Scuba Skills - Mask Removal
Removing and replacing a scuba mask is the skill that most new divers worry about. However with a few simple steps you can master this skill.
Mask clearing
Before you learn to remove and replace your mask completely you should practice clearing the mask until you are comfortable with this skill.
Remember - when you clear the mask [...]
How to Properly Clear Water From Your Scuba Mask?
More often than not, water seeps into the scuba mask to flood the compartments that are tightly sealed across the diver’s face. Now this won’t do well with the scuba diver’s field of vision, particularly when cruising dive sites with low-visibility profiles.Given the propensity to get a flooded mask during the dive, beginners are expertly [...]
Proper Scuba Mask Clearing
It can be hard to enjoy scuba diving if you can’t see anything well enough, and it can also be dangerous. This includes when the mask fogs up or too much water gets into the mask.
Knowing about the methods of scuba mask clearing is essential for these reasons. By using the right scuba mask clearing [...]
Scuba Divers PMS (Practical Maintenance Servicing)
There is nothing more important than taking care of something that will take care of you for years to come. If you let your equipment down it will let you down, that’s a bare fact. Do not depend on your service tech to keep your equipment in safe working condition when you neglect to keep [...]
U.S. Divers Hydrosplit Fin
U.S. Divers Hydrosplit Fin
U.S. Divers offers a variety of fin styles to meet the needs of water sports enthusiasts whether they’re diving, snorkeling, tube fishing, body surfing, or having fun in the pool, and the Hydrosplit fin is among the best. The Hydrosplit is distinguished by its patented Nature’s Wing split blade technology, which reduces [...]
U.S. Divers Proflex II Diving Fins
U.S. Divers Proflex II Diving Fins
U.S. Divers offers a variety of fin styles to meet the needs of water sports enthusiasts whether they’re diving, snorkeling, tube fishing, body surfing, or having fun in the pool, and the Twinflex scuba fin is among the best. The Twinflex is distinguished by its dual blade channels, which optimize [...]
Scuba Diving in Cuba
Why Go?
Scuba diving in Cuba has become hugely popular in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. The water is warm and crystal clear, and the vibrant underwater wildlife and excellently preserved coral reefs make it a key destination for avid scuba divers.
The sheer number of great dive sites in Cuba is staggering, far [...]
