Category: Local Diving
Diving the New England coast: shore and boat sites, reading conditions, what the season looks like month to month, and what you can expect to see down there.
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Choosing a Dive Trip
Not by the photographs. By the conditions, the season, and honestly how many dives you have actually done.
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Diving the Same Site Again
Local divers dive the same handful of places over and over. That is not a limitation, and here is what you get for it.
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Diving Around Wildlife
Do not touch, do not chase, do not feed. Why those three rules are mostly a buoyancy problem, and what actually gets you close.
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Getting to the Dive Site
Parking, access and the small courtesies that keep shore sites open. The unglamorous half of shore diving.
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Shore Entries and Exits
The dive is the easy part. Getting in over weed-covered granite, and getting out again tired, is where shore divers actually get hurt.
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Your First Dive Charter
What actually happens on a dive boat, in order, and the small courtesies nobody mentions until you break one.
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Diving in Current
You never win a fight with moving water. How to plan around current, hold position when you need to, and recognize when to call it.
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Diving in Kelp
Entanglement is common, rarely dangerous, and almost always made worse by struggling. How to move through kelp, and the kelp crawl.
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Finding Your Way Back
Most navigation is done by looking, not by compass. What divers actually use, and why edges matter more than headings here.
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Diving Against Debris
Divers are the only people who see the problem. What is safe to remove, what should be left alone, and why the data matters more than the bag.