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Choosing Your Scuba Diving Equipment

Before taking up scuba diving as a recreational sport, it is important that you get yourself the necessary scuba equipment and gear. There are many options available but if you’re a beginner, it’s best to start from the basics such as the mask, fins, snorkel, and weight belt, then move on to advanced sets later.

The Basics:

The diving mask allows you to see underwater through the glass plate in front. Most diving masks are constructed in such a way that a user can breat...

Before taking up scuba diving as a recreational sport, it is important that you get yourself the necessary scuba equipment and gear. There are many options available but if you’re a beginner, it’s best to start from the basics such as the mask, fins, snorkel, and weight belt, then move on to advanced sets later.

The Basics:

The diving mask allows you to see underwater through the glass plate in front. Most diving masks are constructed in such a way that a user can breat...

USS Spiegel Grove
Key Largo, FL USA
(25.066667, -80.311)

Date - September 3, 2006
Start Time - 16:18 EST
Dive Time - 00:11:15
Max Depth - 77 FT
Start PSI - 2932
End PSI - 2142
O2 Mix - 30%
Min Temp - 89F
Buddy - Erik Rainey and Dirk Haseruck
Equipment: Full wetsuit with 18lbs. Had my dive knife and my large torch.

I had to abort this dive after about 1 minute of exploring the Spiegel. My dive computer has an ultra-safe setting for repetitive nitrox dives. If you tell it you are diving nitrox on the first dive and give it a specific O2 percentage, you have to re-tell the computer on each successive dive even if you are using the same O2 mix. If not, it defaults to 50% O2. Once I got to 77 ft, I had exceeded my partial pressure of O2 limit for a 50% mix and my computer told me I had to ascend. I knew that the computer was wrong and I was still in the limits, but I had already made the decision before I got in the water that I was going to follow the computer's plan for my safety. After you're already at depth is not the time that you want to try to re-plan your dive. So I took the extra safe route and aborted my dive early. Erik and Dirk finished the dive together and had enough fun to make me very jealous.

The toughest part of the dive is carrying all that heavy equipments on your back and walking up to the sea.

Someone once said that scuba diving is like going back to Mother Nature’s womb albeit temporarily because every scuba diver would like to rise above deep waters no matter how cool the scene down there may be.

Scuba diving is a complicated sport that requires training and endurance. Scuba diving is not for the faint of heart, or for those who would shrink at the though of being submerged in water for a long time. This is not to say that scuba diving chooses its players beca...

Someone once said that scuba diving is like going back to Mother Nature’s womb albeit temporarily because every scuba diver would like to rise above deep waters no matter how cool the scene down there may be.

Scuba diving is a complicated sport that requires training and endurance. Scuba diving is not for the faint of heart, or for those who would shrink at the though of being submerged in water for a long time. This is not to say that scuba diving chooses its players beca...