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The Famous Cousteau Aqualung - 2008-12-15 by admin new updated popular

The Famous Cousteau Aqualung In 1942 Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan redesigned a care regulator to provide air on demand and four years later The Aqualung was launched onto the market in France having been kept secret until the South of France was liberated
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River Diving and Drift diving - 2008-12-22 by admin new updated popular

River Diving and Drift diving Drift diving can be likened to catching an air current and flying with it. The force of the current carries the diver along, covering much more ground and expending little or no energy on sightseeing crossing a vast distance.
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River Diving In Canada and U.S - 2009-01-12 by admin new updated popular

River Diving In Canada and U.S The Campbell River, also known as the "Salmon Capital of the World", lies in the heart of Strathcona Provincial Park with the Coastal mountain range to the east. A top cold water dive spot with strong tidal currents flowing through the Discovery Passage, divers can experience the colorful invertebrates anemone's, sponges and soft corals along the steep walls as well as - tiny, grunt sculpin to Cap'n Crunch and an eight foot long wolf eel
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Worlds Best Drift Diving Locations - 2009-01-19 by admin new updated popular

Worlds Best Drift Diving Locations Boracay lies 200miles south of Manila in the western region of the Philippines. Its inland location, the Tabon Strait, offers excellent drift channel diving.
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Scuba Diving at Night - 2009-02-25 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving at Night The idea may seem to initially defeat the purpose of diving but undersea creatures have different habits at night and unimaginable experiences await to reveal a virtually new dive site to one you thought you knew.
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5 Essential Shoulder Stretches - 2009-03-16 by admin new updated popular

5 Essential Shoulder Stretches Jumping off a boat only to find that your tank is off should not be a life-threatening event. Likewise, diving double tanks with an isolation manifold adds a great margin of safety to deep or overhead diving, but only if you can reach your valves without assistance
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Full Body - Flexibility Stretches - 2009-03-30 by admin new updated popular

Full Body - Flexibility Stretches Increased flexibility can make certain aspects of your diving a lot easier, such as getting in and out of your gear, getting back on the boat, and maintaining proper trim while swimming. Hip and leg flexibility can also help you with more advanced finning techniques, such as backwards kicking and helicopter turns.
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Exercise Induced Muscle Cramping - 2009-04-06 by admin new updated popular

Exercise Induced Muscle Cramping Whether you consider yourself a fitness freak or a couch potato, you’ve probably experienced the painful spasms known as exercise associated muscle cramping, or EAMC. These cramps usually happen while performing exercise to fatigue, such as the calf cramp that hits so many divers getting back in the water after some time off.
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Dealing with Heavy Scuba Gear - 2009-04-14 by admin new updated popular

Dealing with Heavy Scuba Gear Over 70% of the population will experience lower back strain in his or her lifetime. In the best cases, the strain can be treated with over the counter anti-inflammatories and rest. The worst result in bulging discs, which rarely can be fully repaired.
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Age, Fitness and Diving - 2009-04-20 by admin new updated popular

Age, Fitness and Diving After about 30 years of age, life gives each of us an important choice: use it or lose it. Those of us who choose to “use it” can maintain or even increase our fitness levels for decades.
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Healthy Living for Seniors - 2009-05-04 by admin new updated popular

Healthy Living for Seniors When we think about exercise and fitness, images of Jack LaLane or Jane Fonda may come to mind, but fitness isn’t about physique or an obsession with training. Physical fitness is about capabilities: it’s about strength and stamina, it’s about vitality and energy level, it’s about an improved immune system and increased lifespan.
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Living Healthy with a Successful Career - 2009-05-11 by admin new updated popular

Living Healthy with a Successful Career Fitness is much, much more than body composition. Having low body fat is great, but there are plenty of skinny smokers out there. Physical fitness is about capabilities: it’s about strength and stamina, it’s about vitality and energy level, it’s about an improved immune system and increased lifespan. It’s about increasing the realm of possibilities in your life.
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Exercise Matrix - 2009-05-18 by admin new updated popular

Exercise Matrix The exercise matrix is a great tool which helps you determine what exercises and what exercise tools will be needed for the areas of your body you desire to work on.
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45-Minute Total Workout - 2009-05-25 by admin new updated popular

45-Minute Total Workout This workout will give a combination strength and cardiovascular workout in one 45 minute session. The key is to move from exercise to exercise as quickly as possible.
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Damaging Coral Reefs While Diving - 2009-06-01 by admin new updated popular

Damaging Coral Reefs While Diving All around the world divers are inadvertently damaging the reefs when they dive. This mainly happen when divers swim too close to the coral. Divers sometimes accidentally kick or grab at the coral, breaking pieces of it off.
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Are Artificial Reefs Good or Bad for the Environment - 2009-06-08 by admin new updated popular

Are Artificial Reefs Good or Bad for the Environment Due to the development of our coastal areas, the habitats used by fish and shellfish for nurseries, have declined dramatically. In a bid to provide other areas for the marine life to take up residence and continue to propagate, certain groups have advocated constructing artificial reefs.
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How Old Is Too Old To Scuba Dive - 2009-07-20 by admin new updated popular

How Old Is Too Old To Scuba Dive Now a day, if were to sneak a peek at a scuba dive course, you would probably see several young male “die-hard” buddies joking around, a mom and dad with a teenager or two in tow, and an older couple of “mature years” waiting their turn to enter the pool.
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What the Mature Diver needs to know about Diving Fitness - 2009-09-07 by admin new updated popular

What the Mature Diver needs to know about Diving Fitness Over a million people go scuba diving each year. And not surprising a good number of them are older adults or “baby boomers”. Dive instructors are also noticing that the average “new” student is in his 50’s; is overweight and chain smokes. Not the picture of suntanned muscled hunk, most of us imagines when we think of scuba diving.
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Is Diving too Dangerous for Kids - 2009-09-14 by admin new updated popular

Is Diving too Dangerous for Kids As the sport of scuba diving grows, more and more water-loving parents are taking their children scuba classes. Almost all international scuba associations have lowered the age for junior certification for children. But is scuba training really safe for child this young?
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Do Fish Feel Pain? - 2010-07-22 by admin new updated popular

Do Fish Feel Pain? A must read for those whom are interested in the details of whether or not fish and crustaceans feel pain. The answers may be quite surprising to you!
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Tips For Choosing The Right Liveaboard - 2011-04-11 by admin new updated popular

Tips For Choosing The Right Liveaboard Making use of the services of chartered liveaboards represents the ultimate choice for recreational scuba divers. What can be more enticing than the thought of walking out onto the deck, greeted by the tranquil ocean views and the spectacular sunsets?
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Where to Dive with Dolphins - 2011-05-09 by admin new updated popular

Where to Dive with Dolphins A list of some of the best locations around the world when it comes to diving with dolphins. A majestic and friendly marine mammal.
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5 Of The Worlds Best Diving Resorts - 2011-05-23 by admin new updated popular

5 Of The Worlds Best Diving Resorts Looking to plan your next diving holiday and not sure where to go or what resort to use? Here are some of the best in the world.
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Cenote Diving - 2011-09-05 by admin new updated popular

Cenote Diving Cenotes are deep pits formed naturally when limestone bedrock collapses, resulting in groundwater being exposed. They are usually found in the Yucatan Peninsula and also some Islands of the Caribbean. The word itself refers to a place which presents accessible groundwater.
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Boyles Law & The Martini Effect - 2011-10-04 by admin new updated popular

Boyles Law & The Martini Effect If you are planning on taking part in recreational diving, it is important to understand some basic laws of physics, so that you can apply them to your new underwater environment. Understanding Boyles law will help ensure a safer dive. As our bodies require oxygen to survive, this is supplied as a gas during diving.
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Scuba Diving in South Africa - 2011-12-12 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving in South Africa This African country offers some excellent scuba diving with vastly contrasting oceanic conditions as one moves around the Western Cape, where the cold Atlanic meets the warm Indian Ocean.
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Visibility While Diving - 2012-01-10 by admin new updated popular

Visibility While Diving Visibility is a vital aspect of scuba diving and can basically be defined as the distance at which an object can be identified under water. It is, at first, not easy to estimate visibility but one does get better at it with experience.
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Scuba Diving Refresher Courses - 2012-01-24 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving Refresher Courses Refresher courses become more important in older scuba divers who may have left diving for a decade or more before returning. Often there will be people who are at least 15 years outdated when it comes to scuba diving.
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