Scuba Penguin

It was beautiful weather at Dutch Springs last weekend. The sun rolled into a slow broil by Sunday, to 92 degrees.  Meanwhile, the drysuiters are groaningly donning their winter underwear to go for a SCUBA dive in the moderately-cold 43 degree quarry.

Walking around the grassy 50-acre facility, I noticed a difference from last year: the presence of White’s Drysuits lying on the grass.  Over the weekend I realized the extent of the sea change: White’s drysuits actually OUTNUMBERED the DUI drysuits at Dutch Springs for the first time.
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My brother and I are on the six pack with Atlantic Edge Scuba to dive the subway cars in May off Ocean City Maryland.  

Anybody out there have experience diving these subway cars, or the other subway reefs in the reef projects in Jersey, the Carolinas and elsewhere?

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I heard about this hotel in Key Largo that can only be accessed by SCUBA. Maybe someday…

Live With The Fishes At The Most Fun And Unique Underwater Hotel In The US

Well, a lot can be said about this video, which is soberly prescriptive, but also pretty ridiculous. A Scuba diver decides to feed a moray eel, and the eel, instead of hiding, gets into the playful spirit of things. But hey, maybe it’s not such a good idea to play with an animal that has steak knives for teeth!

What went wrong on these dives?

I stumbled across this rather chilling 30-second video of a Scuba diver losing her regulator, then frantically grabbing for the camera operator’s regulator, and then finally bolting for the surface where I assume she lived without drowning or getting decompression sickness.  Video of this common type of accident is extremely rare.

What’s interesting is that this video shares a few eery similarities with another video I posted a while ago which is also shown below.  Backseat divers, please analyze and comment.
Continue reading Do You See Why These Scuba Divers Are Drowning?

After I got a C-Card, I was advised to just dive, dive, dive.  My instructor told me that the best training is to log as many dives as I could, so that I could build my buoyancy skills on my own, as well as get familiar with my own rig. It turns out that an article in this month’s issue of Dive Training (March 2009) suggests to take the opposite approach.
Continue reading Should You Spend Your Next Trip Diving or Taking a Class?

Call me a sap, but watching this video makes me want to cry.

As a new SCUBA diver, I read Diver Down and learned about all the harrowing experiences divers have had when they did not carry one of these Dive Alert air horns.  

Continue reading Review - Dive Alert by Ideations Design