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Scuba Diving Training

Learn about scuba diving skills, trainings, certifications and lessons on how to make your scuba bottom time safe, fun and lasting! Also, see what it's like to scuba dive in crazy situations, read our Lessons for Life, get underwater photography tutorials and check out expert scuba dive hacks for any and every dive condition.

Buoyancy Calculator—How Much You Need in Dive Weights

Struggling to find the right amount of weight for scuba diving? Here's how you can test and calculate just how much weight you need for scuba diving.

The Ultimate Guide to Nitrox Diving

What is nitrox diving, what are the benefits of nitrox vs. air and how do you get your enriched air certification? Here’s everything divers need to know.

How to Find a Doctor for Scuba Medical Advice

It's wise to schedule a medical checkup before embarking on a dive trip—even better if you can see a doctor who specializes in diving. Thankfully, there are resources to help you find one.

Recent Articles

Top 5 Ways to Master Buoyancy Control for Scuba Divers

Having trouble being too heavy or too light during your dives? These tips will help you get your buoyancy right each and every time.

Scuba Diving in the Baltic Sea: Dive Conditions, Gear and Tips for Photography

Follow in the footsteps of Nat Geo photographer Viktor Lyagushkin and dive Russia's Baltic Sea. But before you go, here's what you need to know.

Flying After Scuba Diving Makes DCS Symptoms Worse - Lessons for Life

A teen diver has a conservative dive profile, but shows symptoms of DCS. Despite the signs, he chooses to fly. See what went wrong.

What It's Like to Scuba Dive in an Aquarium

Want to scuba dive in an aquarium? Find out what it's like from a show diver at SEA LIFE Orlando.

Tests and Limitations for Diving after Heart Surgery | Heart Disease & Diving Chapter 5

Are there any restrictions on scuba diving after having heart surgery? Do you have to tell the dive shop about your heart medications? Find your answers.

What It's Like to be Left in the Ocean by the Dive Boat

After my partner and I surface following the second boat dive off Miami, we figure we have simply veered off-course.

Trapped and Alone Under a Shipwreck: Diver on DPV Learns a Lesson For Life

A diver tries to recover a boat that overturned and sank in a local harbor, but without the training needed to bring the boat to the surface he loses his life.