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Just paddle your canoe to a spot and do a shore dive from there. You will not be able to get in and out of a canoe on the water without swamping...especially with dive gear on. Maybe if you rigged up some sort of outrigger system you could do it.

A link about lights (copied from another thread on the Basic Scuba section): Informational video on lights.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought I would share a good link that was posted by BecKave on TDS.... "We interview Barry...

A video showing the US Navy demonstrating some skills that I have not seen the other certifying agencies teaching: YouTube - Navy Dive Video

Some short videos on bouyancy, trim, and propulsion techniques: YouTube - Buoyancy Control And Trim - Scuba YouTube - Gaining Horizontal Trim YouTube - Propulsion Techniques - Scuba YouTube - The Frog Kick YouTube - The Flutter Kick YouTube - The Back Kick

Here's a video showing skills being performed in a GUE Fundamentals class: YouTube - GUE Fundamentals

Here's some flashcards I made based on the study questions from each chapter of the SSI Open Water Diver text: ssi Flashcards (click the list all cards button or the study button once you choose a set of cards to look at)

What is that small strap above your main tank used for? Should it be left loose, or tightened to your first stage? Thanks.

Some neat videos about how scuba gear is made: YouTube - making an aluminium scuba tank YouTube - Making Worthing Steel Scuba Cylinders YouTube - making a scuba pressure gauge or SPG YouTube - making a scuba depth gauge YouTube - making a scuba regulator

Here's some pretty good videos that are not supposed to show you how to do the basic scuba skills, but were actually made to show someone how to demonstrate these skills (still shows you the PADI way to perform the basic skills). YouTube - PADI Divemaster skills circuit Part 1 YouTube -...

Don't watch this movie with your paranoid wife (if you ever want her to try diving with you): YouTube - OPEN WATER TRAILER

I checked e-bay just for the heck of it and some guy was selling his unopened 32 DVD Sea Hunt box set that he got for Christmas for $3 buy it now + $3 shipping. SCORE! Can't wait to watch them.

After watching all of the youtube clips and episodes, now I want to get one of those double hose regulators with the bubbles in the back :crafty:.

Some full episodes from the late 50's early 60's diving TV show "Sea Hunt" (I suggest you also do a youtube search for "sea hunt" and "seahunt" for some other excellent clips): YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

YouTube - 2nd CMAS sport diving competitions in Moscow 1/2

A link to some more excellent articles from some guy named NWGratefulDiver: NWGratefulDiver.com (...hope you don't mind that I post this here...)

I thought I'd start a thread where I could share some links with other new divers who are just getting into scuba. Please post any links that you also think new divers would be interested in. Here's a link to an excellent collection of diving articles on all aspects of diving from a magazine...

My first few dives I had the same problem, so on my last dive I switched to a 100CF steel tank which shifted some of the weight I need off of my belt an onto the tank which helped my trim a lot.

Reading through the forums, I kept hearing people refer to the show "Sea Hunt", so I checked to see if they had any clips on Youtube. Well, not only did they have some great clips with just a normal youtube search (try both "sea hunt" and "seahunt"), but they also have a channel that has a...

Thanks for the report.