Category: Learn to Dive
Getting started in scuba and getting better at it: what certification involves, what it costs, and the skills that make diving feel comfortable rather than busy.
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Snorkeling Well
Most people are handed a mask and told to get on with it. The fit test, the clearing, and the things nobody mentions because it looks easy.
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Two Dives in a Day
The second dive is not a repeat of the first. Why it is planned shallower, what the surface interval is for, and what stacks up over a week.
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Fitness for Diving
The diving is not the physical part. Carrying the gear, swimming back against a current and doing it twice in a day is.
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Warm Water After Cold Water
A New England diver in the tropics is carrying too much lead and about to have the easiest diving of their life. What changes, and what does not.
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Staying Calm Underwater
Nerves are normal and nobody admits to them. What actually settles a diver down, and why it is mostly preparation rather than willpower.
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Shooting Video Underwater
Why your footage is unwatchable, and the three fixes. Video is a buoyancy skill before it is a camera skill.
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Your Second Year of Diving
The certification was the easy part. What actually turns a certified diver into a diver, in roughly the order it happens.
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Planning a Dive
Plan your dive and dive your plan is useless advice without the plan. The five decisions worth making before you get wet.
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Dive Accident Coverage
Most travel policies exclude diving, and chamber treatment is rarely covered. What to check in your own policy before a trip.
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Keeping a Dive Log
The scrapbook part is optional. The weighting, the gas and the conditions are what make a log worth keeping.