Hints & Advice

23.02.10 Scuba skills - mask clearing video

Need to refresh your skills or want to know what you'll be doing in the PADI Open water course? This video will give you some helpful tips on mask clearing

06.01.10 Buyer's guide to masks, snorkels and fins

Often the first pieces of kit a diver buys, getting a perfect fit from a mask and snorkel is crucial. When it comes to fins, you need to decide between a paddle or split fin design.

06.01.10 Buyer's guide to wetsuits

Wetsuits are made from neoprene and designed to provide exposure protection by allowing a thin layer of water to enter the suit and be trapped between the neoprene and the diver's body.

05.01.10 Buoyancy control

Mark Powell looks at the importance of buoyancy control and the ways in which itcan make improvements to your diving

05.01.10 Natural lighting

Martin Edge looks at how to avoid the sun burning out your underwater photographs

05.02.10 Diving Courses

You've completed your PADI Open Water Diver course and now you're hungry for your next fix of the underwater world.

05.02.10 Technical Diving Courses

For many, technical diving marks the pinnacle of their diving achievements, and this challenging form of diving will push you and your expectations beyond their limits.

06.01.10 Buyer's guide to drysuits

Drysuits, as the name suggests, are designed to keep you dry! Unlike wetsuits and semi-drysuits, which allow in a layer of water, which your body then warms up, as insulation, a drysuit uses neck and cuff seals, and built-in boots, to trap a layer of air

05.01.10 Lighting: part one

Martin discusses the thorny subject of lighting, starting with how to capture blue water in all its glory

05.01.10 Trim

Mark Powell looks at improving your position in the water

03.02.10 Learn to scuba dive

If you've never tried diving and can't wait to give it a go, there's a number of options to help both children and adults to get immersed in the underwater world.

02.02.10 Becoming a Professional Diver

Whether you're thinking of joining the growing list of divers training as a PADI professional, or continuing up the pro ladder, you can expand your horizons...

06.01.10 Buyer's guide to dive computers

One of the most useful pieces of kit for divers in this day and age is a dive computer. When we start to dive, we all learn to use the Recreational Dive Planner or some other form of tables, but most people will soon progress on to a dive computer.