I’m very interested to hear your opinions about this topic. I’ve been a technical diving instructor for a long time. When I started, most deep…
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Dive Travel to Truk Lagoon – Truk Odyssey Live-Aboard
Travel & Scuba Gear, Camera Choices for Truk Lagoon As I begin writing I am on a United Airlines flight to Guam. I’ll spend two…
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Dive Rite 12 lb QR Weight Pockets – Review
Dive Rite 12 lb QR Weight Pocket System Probably the only thing in diving that’s less elegant than weight pockets are lead weights themselves. However,…
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Scuba Diving Vacations for Beginners
For beginning, newly certified divers, planning your first dive vacation is beyond exciting. You went through a lot to learn diving theory and all the…
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Scuba Diving with Maui Pacific Divers
Scuba Diving on Maui – Maui Pacific Divers I’m lucky to be able to travel and dive quite a lot. It is part of…
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Popular Cozumel Dive Sites
Cozumel is a very popular diving destination. Pretty much everybody already knows this, but Cozumel located off the eastern coast of Mexico. It is home…
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Diving in St. Croix’s Best Dive Sites
St. Croix Scuba Diving Like pretty much every scuba diver, I’ve always been drawn to the Caribbean’s gin-clear waters and spectacular marine life. St. Croix…
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Professional Underwater Photographer… What’s it like?
Underwater Photographer: Scuba Diver’s Dream Job Let me start out by saying underwater photography is only part of my job. Howard Hall, Norbert Wu, David…
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Joe’s Rebreather
My Sport KISS Rebreather is Still Going Strong As we wind down the final weeks of 2022, I’m noticing some things I used to do…
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DGX Gears XTRA Regulator Review
Like everything Dive Gears Express sells, DGX Gears XTRA regulators are not only a great value, but great gear. Given my experience so far, I have no hesitation recommending them to even the most demanding diver.
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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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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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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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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…
View More Seven Dive Locations You Must VisitPacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber Fund
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…
View More Pacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber FundLogging Your Dives Online – 3 Top Dive Logging Websites
Online dive logs In the early days of dive computers, uploading dive data to a personal computer wasn’t even on the radar. My first dive…
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Mounting a GoPro Camera to Scuba Gear
Mounting a GoPro to Scuba Gear recently got my hands on a GoPro Hero video camera. I honestly never gave GoPro much thought since I…
View More Mounting a GoPro Camera to Scuba GearKona SCUBA Diving Trip 2011
I finally found 5 minutes to upload 30 seconds of video from last month’s Kona dive trip. I’ll eventually find time to put up something…
View More Kona SCUBA Diving Trip 2011Kona SCUBA Diving Video
The first time I planned a dive trip to Hawaii, I had divers saying things like, “Well, the diving’s not that great in Hawaii,” or…
View More Kona SCUBA Diving VideoSCUBA Divers Left Behind in Florida
http://news.yahoo.com/scuba-divers-left-behind-florida-172315719.html Scuba divers left behind in Florida It seems like every other year or so, we read this headline about SCUBA divers somewhere in the…
View More SCUBA Divers Left Behind in FloridaPADI Altitude Specialty Certification, Lake Tahoe
I just finished with a PADI Altitude Specialty Course in Lake Tahoe earlier today. It was a spectacular day at the lake. The water…
View More PADI Altitude Specialty Certification, Lake TahoeJack’s Diving Locker
Not long ago, I made a post about dive industry people not responding to customer inquiries. Specifically, I named SubGear and Jack’s diving Locker because…
View More Jack’s Diving LockerDive Industry, Listen Up… Then Respond!
In an earlier post, I indicated that I’ve used the SubGear XP10 Dive Computer with my MacBook Pro, which was true at the time; however,…
View More Dive Industry, Listen Up… Then Respond!Monterey SCUBA Diving: Sierra Diving Center Fun Dive
I’ve been meaning to comment on the fun dives in Monterey last weekend ever since I’ve been back. The short version is it was great.…
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