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Decompression Sickness

Decompression Sickness(0)

August 30, 2010

What is DCS? Decompression Sickness is a term that you, as a diver, will hear mentioned many times throughout your diving career. It is a term used by professionals to describe the two main pressure related sicknesses that commonly afflict divers in an emergency situation: decompression sickness and lung over-expansion injuries. Decompression Sickness Decompression sickness, [...]

Decompression Sickness
SCUBA Diving In The Future!

SCUBA Diving In The Future!

My Top 5 Dive Equipment Wish List I’m Impatient For The Future… I am a self confessed dive-gadget freak. I love scuba gear because the sea is the ultimate final frontier on Earth, and dive gear designers have some of the most intense challenges in front of them when creating new products. Their goal is [...]

Drift Diving: Flying Underwater

Drift Diving: Flying Underwater

Currents – Aquatic Conveyor Belts The sea is a powerful force. It’s a huge energy storage and dispersal mechanism that absorbs forces like the Earth’s rotation, the Moon’s orbit and the wind and then releases them in various ways. Sometimes it dumps a huge amount of energy in one go (like a tsunami) but most [...]

Most dangerous marine animals of the Red Sea

Most dangerous marine animals of the Red Sea

As fascinating as Red Sea might be, it’s not without dangers, especially when it comes to rich underwater life. If you ever get a chance to go deep into the amazing but dangerous waters, be sure to know names and see photos of these creatures first. Family of Scorpaenidae Stonefish Among the representatives of Scorpaenidae [...]

Complete Guide to Dive Watches

Complete Guide to Dive Watches

Dive Watches Divers are gear fiends. They love to add more equipment to their collection, and the more novel or higher the quality the better. Expense often becomes the last priority, whereas having the latest gadget becomes everything. The only problem with shelling out for a new double tank rig, titanium knife or self inflating [...]

A Guide to… Dive Boats

A Guide to… Dive Boats

Why Dive Boats? The sea, being massive, can pose some logistical problems to a diver. Some dive sites require a diver to simply stagger off the beach into a beautiful coral reef or drop off, whereas some are much less accessible and require a boat to get to them. I am very partial to using [...]


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