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Why Diving Overweighted Is a Bad Idea

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Megan Denny
27 August, 2024

Dive Skills

Scuba Skills

Improve Your Scuba Skills From Your Sofa

Did you know you can practice scuba diving when you are not in the water? And amazingly, it works to improve your scuba skills!
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Weight For It: Weighting and Descent Techniques for Perfect Buoyancy

Descending and ascending are often overlooked as critical diving skills, usually outshone by the need for perfect trim and buoyancy once the dive is underway....
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Discover Scuba Diving vs. Open Water Diver: What’s the Difference?

New to diving? Here are the differences and similarities between PADI Discover Scuba Diving and Open Water Diver programs.

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