125 km away from Africa an island emerges from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Dominated by volcanoes, this island...
Buoyancy Session 1 – The Buoyancy Check
The Buoyancy Check Good buoyancy starts at the surface, even before gearing up. It begins with the decision about the...
Weights vs. Buoyancy Control
Weights vs. Buoyancy Control Finally, the day has arrived—your long-awaited holiday begins. After eagerly anticipating...
10 Reasons Why You Should Begin Technical Diving
There is a kind of mythology around technical diving. One may think that technical divers are risk-takers. Or that...
Ocean Gardener 2 – 14 easy daily actions against plastic pollution
Plastic – a material of daily use that at first sight seems harmless. The plastics have become a material present in...
Decision making: Diving when it rains
Is it OK to go diving when it rains? How can rain affect to our dive? Obviously, the problem is not getting wet with...
10 Special Christmas Gifts For Divers
What to give a diver for Christmas? The truth is that we divers, apart from diving, what we like the most is to talk...
Corals eat plastic because they like its flavor
“The chemical additives of these compounds make them very appetizing.” It is well known that corals ingest millimeter...
A diver swollen with nitrogen bags?
It happened 4 years ago. Alejandro, a seafood fisherman, was doing his work more than 30m deep. He suffered a free...
Buoyancy Session 5 – Take Control of your Buoyancy
In our previous Buoyancy Sessions you have learned to dive proper weighted, to perform a controlled descent and to...
Important – Suunto Product Recall
SUUNTO WIRELESS TANK PRESSURE TRANSMITTER AND SUUNTO TANK POD Suunto has just released a warning for all the users of...
17 Amazing Facts About Octopuses You Can’t Miss
The Octopus. A very strange creature. No bones and eight legs. For centuries the sailors have looked down at the deep...