Should I Buy Or Rent My Scuba Diving Gear?
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Owning and maintaining your own scuba gear is recommended because doing so provides security and knowledge that all your scuba gear functions and performs to fit you.
Top reasons why you should own your scuba gear:
Hygiene
Confidence and Assurance ...
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Regulator Maintenance
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After each day of diving, your regulator must be cleaned, inspected and prepared for the next use or for storage.
As soon as the regulator is removed from the scuba cylinder, reinstall the dust cap over the regulator inlet port. The cap is attached ...
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Just Purchased A Scuba Mask? Read This Before Your First Use!
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Almost all scuba diving gear requires some preparation before it can be used. When you bring home your scuba mask, you will notice an oily film on the lens of your mask and sometimes on the strap of your mask.
Most manufacturers rub a light oil onto ...
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Why Gauges Are Important To Scuba Diving
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A diver relies on scuba gauges to know three things:
Depth
Air Consumption
Time
Depth and Time are vital for nitrogen and air management. A scuba diver needs to know how deep s/he has been, and for how long, in order to judge the necessity and len...
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What Is SCUBA?
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Self
Contained
Underwater
Breathing
Apparatus
Scuba is an apparatus (often called "scuba gear", "scuba system") utilizing a portable supply of compressed gas supplied at a regulated pressure and used for breathing while swimm...
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Different Types Of Scuba Diving
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The most common kinds of diving are:
Open Water Diving
Wreck Diving
Cave Diving
Rescue Diving
Drift Diving
Night Diving
Deep Diving
Ice Diving
River Diving
High Altitude Diving
Kayak Diving
Professional & Industrial Diving
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Open Water Diving
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Open Water Diving is the first level of certification, and is the most common type of diving you will attempt as a certified recreational diver. Open water scuba diving typically involves an experience in a large body of water such as an ocean, sea o...
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Wreck Diving
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Wreck Diving is a dive targeted at visiting a sunken vessel. Open Water certified divers on a wreck dive may visit wrecks, explore the hull, peer inside and explore the exterior. Wrecks often act as man-made reefs, and are home to an abundance of fis...
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Drift Diving
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Drift Diving is a very relaxed form of scuba diving. The diver allows the currents of the water to carry the diver away on his/her adventure. Moreover, the scuba diver exerts a minimum expenditure of energy this way, allowing him to stay underwater f...
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Night Diving
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Night Diving involves the exploration of bodies of water under the dark cloak of nighttime. Underwater torches are used to aid the scuba diver in seeing through the murky darkness. In fact, some avid night divers consider the total darkness of the de...
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