Choosing a Scuba Regulator
How to choose the best scuba regulator for your diving Over my decades of scuba diving, I have owned and dived with every regulator imaginable.…
Hawaii Reopens for Dive Travel
After two frustrating years enduring questionable “science” and outright hostility, I am thrilled to learn that Hawaii will once again be open to divers. I guess it has been for a while, if required testing and mask mandates don’t bother you. However, beginning on 3/26, that’s over.
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Dive Planning Apps For Technical Divers
Review of decompression dive planning mobile apps for technical divers Recently, I started down a path of discovery into the prehistory of technical and decompression…
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Diving at Riding Rock Resort – 25 Years Later
When I was young, I did a fair bit of traveling to dive destinations. I had opportunities to scuba dive in as far away destinations…
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Settings for Perfect Underwater Photos
Camera setting for perfectly exposed underwater photographs I won’t lie. The photography on my JoeScuba blog hasn’t exactly been spectacular. Mostly, this is because my…
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Roatan Diving – Experience the Remote East End
Roatan Diving: A Week at The Reef House Resort Roatan diving is renown world-wide for it’s year-round great conditions, unspoiled reefs and diversity of marine…
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Why Dive Sidemount?
Why dive sidemount scuba when there’s nothing wrong with back mount? The average recreational diver probably doesn’t give much thought to sidemount scuba. Many divers…
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Traveling Light With Scuba Gear
How to travel with your diving equipment. Take everything you need without hassle and excess baggage fees. Traveling light with scuba gear is an art.…
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The Best Underwater Camera, I hope
What’s the best underwater camera? There are lots of action cameras available to divers, so it is all but impossible to choose the “best underwater…
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Recreational DIR Diving: A Good Idea for New Divers?
Recreational DIR Diving: Good or Bad Is DIR really “doing it right” for recreational divers? About a two years ago, some of my dive instructor…
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My Transition to Sidemount Scuba
Sidemount Scuba When and why I became a believer in sidemount scuba. If you are thinking of making the transition to sidemount scuba, read on……
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Dan Orr Presents Data on Diver Fatalities
Preventing Diver Fatalities Diver Fatalities Happen But, DAN research clearly shows the majority of diver deaths could be prevented. As a diving instructor, the worst…
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COSMIQ Dive Computer Review – Part I
Deepblu Introduces the COSMIQ Dive Computer UPDATE 9/30/24: This article should be helpful to someone thinking of buying a use Cosmiq dive computer, but there…
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Seven Dive Locations You Must Visit
Seven Dive Locations You Must Visit The image of the ocean-side vacation is one we all keep catalogued away—a still-frame we return to in imagination…
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In-Water Recompression
In-water recompression: Good idea? Bad idea? What is it anyway? A few weeks ago I came across the following article: Take Me Back Down: One Diver’s…
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SubGravity 6mm Stainless Steel Backplate Review
As mentioned frequently, the most popular local dive spot here is Lake Tahoe. We dive others fairly frequently as well, like Donner Lake, Pyramid Lake…
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Are Welded D-Rings Really an Entanglement Hazard?
In the diving community, especially the technical diving community, there are a lot of “facts” thrown around related to best diving practices, equipment, training standards, etc.…
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DUI Zip Seals on Viking Drysuit
It’s been probably 5 years since I sent my DUI CF200x drysuit to DUI to be retrofitted with Zip Seals. Since then, I’ve made about…
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Dive Rite XT vs. Apollo Prestige Dive Fins
Someone named Laura disagrees with me, but I have long maintained that the best dive fin ever made is the Apollo Prestige. I love it…
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Project Baseline
In recent months, I’ve had the good fortune to be introduced to Project Baseline. Project Baseline is a not-for-profit, conservation organization that has involved thousands…
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Scubapro Seawing Nova Dive Fin Review
The Scubapro Seawing Nova It is with a heavy heart that I recently made my first fin change in over 20 years. For decades, I’ve…
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Monterey Divers: Please help keep the Pacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber in business I dive in and around Monterey fairly frequently. I have for decades and I…
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My first set of scuba tanks was a pair of “tiny doubles” (1800psi 38’s, or so I’m told). I suspect they are actually 45’s, and,…
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Don’t believe everything you read on scuba diving message boards I hate to be negative, but some of the most ridiculous things I have ever read…
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I just came across a blog by a diver in Australia (Read it here). He’s an interesting guy, with obviously a lot of experience. Initially,…
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