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Buoyancy Control Device - BCD - 2008-11-19 by divetime new updated popular

Buoyancy Control Device - BCD The buoyancy control device is a type of life jacket inflated by using air from the tank with a low pressure inflator. Air is released from it via a valve or hose. These actions assist your lungs in determining your level of suspension in the water.
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Scuba Diving Wetsuits - 2008-11-21 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving Wetsuits As we are aware, wetsuits are made of neoprene that acts like a sponge adding buoyancy without absorbing water. The insulation depends on the type of suit.
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SCUBA Wars - 2008-11-24 by divetime new updated popular

SCUBA Wars Inventor Father Da Vinci’s comments on withholding certain brilliant information that may facilitate man’s ability to explore the oceans, turned out to be the start of a rather bleak prophecy.
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The Evolution of Scuba Diving - 2008-12-01 by divetime new updated popular

The Evolution of Scuba Diving The official roots of diving as we know it today can be traced back to 1941, when American Christian J. Lambertsen designed the first rebreathing equipment to be called SCUBA 'Self-Contained Underwater Oxygen Breathing Apparatus', for the US army.
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The Dive Cylinder or Diving Tank - 2008-12-02 by divetime new updated popular

The Dive Cylinder or Diving Tank These life-supporting high pressure aluminum or steel air containers hold varying capacities of air from 8 to 15 litres.
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Diving with Nitrox - 2008-12-11 by admin new updated popular

Diving with Nitrox Contrary to popular belief, Nitrox isn't to diving what Nanotechnology is to science. Stripped of its state-of-the-art myths and attachments, Nitrox was actually put to use successfully as long ago as WWI has been tested in theory since the late 1800's.
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Cozumel's Underworld - 2008-12-14 by Heather Hintz new updated popular

Cozumel's Underworld An environmental essay for my writing class about the underwater world of Cozumel.
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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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Scuba Diving Dry Suits - 2008-12-18 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving Dry Suits Remember when you had to leave playtime as soon the real fun starts - the cold is the same, it makes its presence known just when you start enjoying the water.
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Scuba Diving Regulator - 2009-01-02 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving Regulator The function of a regulator is to control the release of the pressurized gas from the cylinder in accordance with the diver's depth requirements and is no to be confused with the demand valve.
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River Diving In Africa and the UK - 2009-01-05 by admin new updated popular

River Diving In Africa and the UK At Lake Malawi, the freshwater lake of Nkharta Bay is said to be like diving inside an aquarium. The lake is the 9th largest freshwater lake in the world with as much as 70% (1500 varieties) of the worlds Cichlids.
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Military Diving and Combat Diving - 2009-01-09 by admin new updated popular

Military Diving and Combat Diving Ever since the 40's when the first military divers appeared on the scene resembling amphibians, the name 'frogmen' was spawned and stuck. It has since branched off officially from a term of endearment into naming formal squad divisions of certain countries.
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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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Underwater Photography - 2009-01-22 by admin new updated popular

Underwater Photography It helps to have background in 'land photography' in order to understand the basic principles of underwater photography and unless you plan to rival the likes of National Geographic's David Doubilet, it could just be the start of an obsessive and thrilling new hobby.
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High Altitude Diving - 2009-01-27 by admin new updated popular

High Altitude Diving The cardinal rule at altitude is oxygen ratios are much lower than at sea level. Hypoxia translates to insufficient oxygen and thus the symptoms that result. The bodies of those who live at high altitudes adapt, therefore making them less susceptible.
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Deep Diving - 2009-02-01 by admin new updated popular

Deep Diving Deep diving is the means to an end and not an end in itself. Most wrecks require visiting depths below 18metres, the Open Water qualification cut-off.
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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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How to reduce gas consumption - 2009-03-02 by admin new updated popular

How to reduce gas consumption For some divers, being the first to hit turn pressure means nothing more than a good-natured jibe from dive buddies once back on the boat. For others, a high rate of gas consumption stands as an obstacle to their full enjoyment of diving.
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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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Dive Belize’s Great Blue Hole Is it Really WORTH Diving By Gaz Cooper - 2009-03-22 by Gaz Cooper new updated popular

Dive Belize’s Great Blue Hole Is it Really WORTH Diving By Gaz Cooper Dive Belize's Blue Hole. This is a question that is repeatedly asked on the many dive message boards across the internet and the answers it receives is sometimes misleading depending on the experience of the diver whom answers.
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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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Scuba Diving as a Career Choice - 2009-04-03 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving as a Career Choice It's your dream job, spending your days diving the warm waters of the Caribbean, surrounded by schools of exotic marine life and with vibrant shades of coral clambering over the seabed. Which one of us wouldn’t want a job where you get paid for doing something you both love? (And something which all tourists have to pay for?) But what career options are there for a diver that would like to make his passion his career?
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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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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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Are Sea Snakes Dangerous - 2009-05-15 by admin new updated popular

Are Sea Snakes Dangerous Have you ever been scuba diving in an area prone to sea snakes and not been sure how to handle the situation, or maybe even been diving in an area while unaware of the existence of sea snakes in that specific area? Chances are that if you've done a lot of travelling and scuba diving in either the Pacific or Indian Ocean you have encountered one of these unfamiliar creatures.
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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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Scuba Dive Travel - Global Conditions - Part 1 - 2009-06-05 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Dive Travel - Global Conditions - Part 1 Nearly 75% of the world is made up of ocean, leaving man with 3/4 of the earth’s exploration to be done under water. As with land, the oceans differ greatly in conditions from area to area.
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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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Scuba Diving Accidents and Mistakes - 2009-06-12 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving Accidents and Mistakes Scuba diving can be a fun and exciting hobby, but it can also be very dangerous when proper precautions are not taken. Amateur scuba diving is fraught with accidents and common mistakes, which could usually easily be avoided if enthusiasts first took the time to be careful.
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Scuba Dive Travel - Global Conditions - Part 2 - 2009-06-19 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Dive Travel - Global Conditions - Part 2 We look at the scuba diving conditions in the United States, South and Central America as well as Europe. The general expectations for diving there and if it's worth planning a diving trip there.
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Medical Uses of Coral - 2009-06-22 by admin new updated popular

Medical Uses of Coral As we are discovering more and more plants in the rain forest, which can be used by the pharmaceutical industry in drugs, so we are finding that there are many uses for components in coral as well.
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Cage Diving vs. Scuba Diving - 2009-06-26 by admin new updated popular

Cage Diving vs. Scuba Diving After looking at all the information, it would appear that there are two camps of thought on the topic of cage diving and whether it increases the risks for scuba divers. Scuba divers are continually looking to push the envelope and find a better “high” from their diving trips.
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Reef Coral Disease - 2009-06-29 by admin new updated popular

Reef Coral Disease Concern has been expressed about the diminishing coral reefs and steps are being taken to try and alleviate the problem. While it has been suggested that much damage is caused by shipping, which is no doubt true..
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Scuba Dive Travel - Global Conditions - Part 3 - 2009-07-03 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Dive Travel - Global Conditions - Part 3 In this final third article on global scuba diving locations we will look at both Southeast Asia and Oceania, which while fairly close in proximity can offer a different scuba diving atmosphere.
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Poaching of Endangered Marine Animals - 2009-07-06 by admin new updated popular

Poaching of Endangered Marine Animals In 1969 and 1972 acts were passed which purpose it is to conserve endangered species and marine mammals, and to prevent these species from being used by mankind for either consumption, commercial use, or their retail value.
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The Future of Scuba Diving - 2009-10-02 by admin new updated popular

The Future of Scuba Diving This week we take a slightly different direction from the usual factual articles and head into a world of hypothetical situations, a world which may be likened to science fiction.
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How To Clean Your Diving Gear After Diving - 2009-10-19 by admin new updated popular

How To Clean Your Diving Gear After Diving Washing your diving gear after diving is important because it will help keep your diving gear in working order and extend its life. All diving gear is an investment, so it is worth the time and effort to clean it properly after each and every dive.
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A Beginner's Guide to Dropping Anchor - 2010-01-12 by admin new updated popular

A Beginner's Guide to Dropping Anchor This article will introduce you to the concept of dropping anchor and will provide you with a couple of the most effective techniques that you can begin using right away.
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A Diver’s Guide to Marine Conservation - 2010-01-18 by admin new updated popular

A Diver’s Guide to Marine Conservation It is an unfortunate thing that marine conservation is often very low on a SCUBA diver’s list of priorities because it is very important to respect nature and help it to thrive.
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How to Become a Dive Master - 2010-02-01 by admin new updated popular

How to Become a Dive Master This article will introduce you to the recreational diving qualification of Dive Master and the many different responsibilities involved in the profession of diving.
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Fossil Hunting - 2010-02-05 by admin new updated popular

Fossil Hunting Fossil hunting is an exciting and rewarding activity that any scuba diver can partake in. An activity that is not only fun, but also valuable to the scientific community.
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Scuba Diving In Dominica - 2010-09-17 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving In Dominica If you are interested in visiting Dominica, you’ll be pleased to know that this island country offers several attractions to immerse yourself in, from volcanic vents to walls covered in coral.
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Diving at the Dead Sea? is it possible? - 2010-10-27 by Doron O new updated popular

Diving at the Dead Sea? is it possible? Extreme unique diving experience at the Dead Sea , one of the world nature wonders.
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Scuba Diving with Asthma - 2011-01-17 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Diving with Asthma If you suffer from asthma, then there are likely many activities that you have had to refrain from in your lifetime. This can be discouraging especially if you are an adventurous type of person.
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Scuba Pioneer C. Lambertsen Passes Away - 2011-02-21 by admin new updated popular

Scuba Pioneer C. Lambertsen Passes Away Christian J. Lambertsen, inventor of the Lambertsen Amphibious Respirator Unit has died at the age of 93.
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Dive Gear for Your Budget - 2011-03-29 by admin new updated popular

Dive Gear for Your Budget We look at a variety of scuba diving equipment arranged by their prices. All the items are have a strong consensus by other divers who own them to be of excellent quality, only the best for the budget are listed.
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