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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

What It's Like To Dive In Near Freezing Water

Thinking about getting your drysuit certification? Read what it's like to get certified in the freezing-cold waters in England. This advanced dive certification may be a challenge, but it unlocks a new realm of underwater adventure.

Survive Any Dive Catastrophe!

Overpowering currents! Raging storms! Marauding sharks! Your dive instructor never mentioned you'd have days like this. Here's how to get home safely.

Scuba Tank Markings: What Do They All Mean?

Here's why you should care about what's stamped on the the outside of a scuba tank and how to decipher what it means.

What It's Like: To Recover Plane Crash Victims

Did you remember hearing about the Lao Airlines flight that crashed this past October? Jennifer Meszaros, an ethnographer, details what took place after the accident that killed all 49 people aboard.

Imaging Plus: Mind Your Manners

Are you an aspiring underwater photographer? Do you want to be able to take pictures at dive sites like Bonaire? Imaging Plus columnist and underwater photographer Jim Decker provides expert advice on gear and imaging techniques to perfect your photos. Want more imaging advice? Go to scubadiving.com.

10 Wackiest Daredevil Scuba Dives

Bored with your "normal" scuba diving routine? Here are 10 of our favorite wacky and wild ways to play and work underwater.

Lessons for Life: Disobedience Spells Disaster

Making an unplanned and untrained cave dive dooms a pair of inexperienced divers. The latest installment in our dive-training series "Lessons For Life."