Overthinking
In Traci’s third part of her journey to becoming an open water diver, she recounts going through her eLearning course. She also recalls getting fitted for gear for the first time and the joys of trying on wetsuits.
The Importance of Proper Weighting
When you’re a new diver it can be difficult to figure out exactly how much weight you need. Between lack of experience and maybe even confidence in diving you might find yourself struggling with how much weight to use. Weighting doesn’t have to be hard to do, learn more about to figure out how much weight you should use.
Six Ways to Make a Difference While Diving
As a diver, you probably do things like recycle and limit your use of single-use plastics. You may even try to sustainably source your food too. This is all wonderful and these are great ways to help the environment while on land, but did you realize you can make a difference while diving, too?
Ten Best Dive Sites in Malta and Gozo
Ten Best Dive Sites Malta and Gozo
Listing ten best dive sites on Malta and Gozo is really down to a vote from former students and Instructors who visit the destination for pleasure and training and the following are a selection that has been voted for. The following list is a mixture of recreational and technical dives, but any are worth a dip.
1.Cirkewwa
This is one of the most versatile dive sites on Malta with areas that suit both recreational and technical be its single cylinder, twins, side mount or rebreather. They are two wrecks tug boat ROZI P29 Patrol Boat, two arches, anchors and various swim-throughs. In fact, depths and dives to suit all.
2.Um El Faroud
Sunk on purpose in 1998 as a diving attraction it is now split in half due to heavy storm about 36mtrs to the prop and approx. 110 meters in length this provides both a great dive for advanced recreational and technical divers with good penetration areas for those suitably qualified
3.The Inland Sea
This is located on Gozo consisting of an 80mtr tunnel leading to open sea with an amazing wall dive again these suits advanced recreational and technical divers with depths down to 60mtrs or just keep to 20 to 30mtrs.
4.The Blue Hole and Coral Gardens
Again, on Gozo as the name implies there is a blue hole that leads to open water and used to be the iconic Azure Window which collapsed during a storm many say the site is even better now with various rock formations.
5.HMS Stubborn
This is a boat dive more for the technical divers intact submarine lying in the sandy bottom at approx. 57mtrs visibility can be simply amazing
6.Polynesian
Again another boat dive this was a luxury French liner depths between 60 -65 meters a very large vessel with loads to see in fact one dive does not do it justice
7.Xlendi, Karwela, and Comino land
One of the best shore dives on Gozo where you can do all three wrecks in one dive if you are suitably equipped all being in the 40mtr depth range, definitely fit the bill for extended range or decompression procedure qualified divers.
8.Billingshurst Cave
Quite a difficult site more suited to experienced divers but a must for the Cave divers amongst use
9.Santa Maria Caves Of Comino
Best setting aside a full day for this area, several sea caves and swim-throughs depths to suit recreational divers and very scenic dive site
10.Middle Finger
Lastly for those technical divers wishing to employ their advanced quals be it open circuit or rebreather literally 10mtrs from the shore and drop 10mtrs to top of the finger you can continue down to 100mtr+ a good training site for the more advanced technical training.
Prečo používať počítač
Tieto tabelárne schémy poskytovali v závislosti na maximálnych hĺbkach a konkrétnych časoch ponorov údaje, ktoré vyjadrovali zbytkový dusíkový čas pre jednoduché aj opakované ponory. Používanie potápačských tabuliek však naráža na rôzne obmedzenia, ktoré naopak potápačské počítače výrazne znižujú, alebo odstraňujú celkom.
The Force Near You
Get some perspective of all the variables required to determine the force of a rupturing cylinder, the damaged caused by the rupture and some ways to reduce the risk of injury or damage.
10 Useful Tips From Seasoned Emergency Response Diving Experts
Every team no matter how experienced has room for improvement. These ten tips will help keep your team running like a well-oiled machine no matter what situation arises. Striving for better doesn’t always mean that you or your team needs work it just means that you stay on top of your A game.
6 Books That Shaped Technical Diving
Looking for your next weekend read? Look no further than these five tech diving books. These are just a start of a great list of books about tech diving. Recalling stories of great tech diving pioneers and record setters.