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Every time I prepare for a dive trip, I start off with a mammoth wish list pack pile & have to whittle it down to an airline approved weight. Many a time I have reflected on how little a tennis ball and racquet weight and wondered why I had to fall in love with scuba diving...

From sea to shining sea, the United States is home to beautiful landscapes, historic treasures, and shimmering oceans that all Americans can enjoy. President Obama recently announced his plan to help every kid enjoy the great outdoors. Starting this fall, every 4th grader will get a one-year...

Diving at night is a specialty many divers fear, until they try it. After one dive many are often hooked on scuba diving after dusk. With a little preparation and planning Night Diving can be among the most rewarding specialties scuba has to offer. 1) Proper lighting is important. Many people...

Written By: Bob GrundmeyerSherwood Scuba is celebrating their 60th Anniversary this year as one of the leading equipment manufacturers for scuba divers!  Scuba.com is excited to offer the Sherwood Avid, one of the longest running and most successful buoyancy compensators of all time!  The...

Sailing silently thought the dark, a remote operated vehicle catches what researches believe are to be the first ever seen images of the elusive and rare Black Seadevil angler fish alive at their natural depth.  “Fewer than half a dozen have ever been captured on film or video by deep diving...

Sailing silently thought the dark, a remote operated vehicle catches what researches believe are to be the first ever seen images of the elusive and rare Black Seadevil angler fish alive at their natural depth.  “Fewer than half a dozen have ever been captured on film or video by deep diving...

By Melinda Herndon, Director eScuba Pty Ltd and Dive Instructor I purchased my first Spare Air during my inaugural year of diving…directly after a much more experienced dive buddy had an out of air emergency and scared the hell out of me by grabbing my primary and bringing me to the surface...

A friend told me he quit scuba diving because it got to be mundane and boring.  He informed me he’d seen the same fish at the same dive sites so often that he was convinced that they all recognized him.  At this point I began to realize I had felt the same way at times over the years.  There...

The Ocean Quest 6oz. Premium Lycra Dive Skin is the perfect choice for divers requiring an undergarment Ocean Quest 6 ounce Premium Lycra Dive Skinbeneath a wetsuit.  Made from 4-way stretch Lycra this full length jumpsuit is perfect for adding a little extra thermal layer underneath your...

Ocean Quest Arctic Clear HD Dive Mask for GoPro HERO CamerasOcean Quest again improves the over all experience for divers by offering the Arctic Clear HD Dive Mask for GoPro HERO Cameras. One of the only things that has not changed on modern dive masks is seemingly the one thing that might...

Modern scuba diving has been around for close to 70 years and has become one of the most popular pastimes for people from all walks of life.  It offers unique views into a world that while very common and known to all, can only be experienced by engaging in the sport.  But even with this, there...

Many of us have been lucky enough to enjoy the splendor of diving off the Baja Peninsula.  This same scuba mecca has been hit hard by the strongest hurricane to ever hit Mexico’s west coast:  Hurricane Odile.  "This natural disaster has left thousands homeless.  Families have been torn apart and...

Are you among the many scuba divers that enjoy taking photos during your diving adventures?  Do you feel a sense of pride when showing friends and loved ones the images or video you’ve captured?  If so, maybe you should join the Australasia-wide perpetual photo and video shootout for your chance...

(DiverWire) A scuba gear review from actual scuba instructor Melinda: "The Scuba Mesh Backpack Bag is an absolute necessity for any diver. It’s 5122 cubic inches allows it to hold a complete set of dive gear, but for packing, it can be folded up to the size of an orange and weighs practically...

(DiverWire) Tamanna Balachandran became the youngest scuba diver to be PADI certified at the tender age of ten-years-old. Balachandran lives in Mumbai, the capitol of Maharashtra in India.On April 16th, the day after her tenth birthday, Balachandran earned her PADI Junior Open Water Scuba...

(Diverwire) South African award winning ocean conservationist, Lesley Rochat isn't shy about taking her clothes off for a cause. In fact, she's pretty passionate about it. She recently stripped naked as part of her campaign against shark culling in her ‘Get Hooked on Conservation, Ban Drumlines’...

(DiverWire) Adrianne Haslet, former dancer, lost part of her leg in the Boston Marathon bombings in April of 2013. Less than a year later, and Haslet is scuba diving with hammerhead sharks near Cocos Island, hundreds of miles off the coast Costa Rica.“Dancing and diving are actually very...

What's the point of all that scuba gear and travel if you can't tell stories about diving? And how do people know you're a diver if you don't wear the colors? Every diver has some kind of swag - a bumper sticker on their car, a coffee mug, a jacket, or even a dive flag flying at their house...

The Consulting Adventurer is here to bring out the daredeviling, barnstorming, wavecrashing adventurer inside of you and equip him or her with the proper gear at non-adventurous prices. You want to know who goes into the wild without any equipment? Chipmunks, which are riddled with disease...

It's that time of year again - the annual underwater visit from the Easter bunny! This special Underwater Easter Egg Hunt is open to divers and snorkelers visiting the Florida Keys who want to become deep-sea "egg-splorers" while supporting a Keys charity. The unique event's host, Captain...