ScubaGadget - The Deep Background on Scuba

At some point before every dive you hand over the care of your lungs to the dive shop employee filling your tank. Few divers ever think about and even less understand what goes on behind the scenes in preparing and operating the complex system that fills his/her tank. When we did research on this question [...]

What do our stories teach us? Whenever I talk with a dive shop or dive charter owner about their business it is rare not to hear the following two sad clichés. Both allude to why they are not getting rich in the SCUBA biz. One is the simple phrase, “It is a labor of love;” which could be [...]

(updateded 14 May 2009) You cannot oversell the diving in Browning Pass (BC, Canada). Divers who have been there, including Women’s Diving Hall of Famer Jill Heinerth, call this area the best diving in the world at any temperature. It has been regularly listed in Scuba Diving magazine as the best diving in North America. [...]

The Contenders – a pairing of “uniquely similar” drysuits. In this corner we have the little disputed and long reigning champion of its class, the custom fit DUI CF200 drysuit. In the far corner we have a new comer aching to challenge the status quo in drysuit diving, the Whites Fusion. The folks at both [...]

Vance Harlow’s book “Oxygen Hacker’s Companion” (Airspeed Press) speaks of nitrox and gas mixing as a modern day dark art. In the introduction he claims that “dive shops and gas suppliers are both well aware of this mystique, often as not seem to enjoy their role as initiates of a discipline which is shrouded in [...]

Dive boats are no longer fueled with testosterone. Szilvia Gogh, founder of Miss-Scuba.com says that the man to women ratio is about three to one on dive boats this year, up from eight to one just ten years ago. You can tell the dive industry has caught on when you see gear with names like [...]