over the years scuba divers have made some pretty weird inventions. I mean, remember that scuba diving became popular in the 60s and 70s. We’ve had flower power print wetsuits before. So, let's take a look back through vintage scuba catalogues, sift through internet forums to find some truly odd scuba diving inventions.

$1 million dollar fine for a captain for misreporting his catch, a new record has been set by painting underwater… the PADI cert card for that comes out this autumn, can scuba diving become an Olympic sport? And a scuba diver helps find a prosthetic leg in lake Windermere! This and so much more in this week's episode of Deco Stop

Should I buy the Apeks RK3 fins? Do we still have a store in Faversham? Is The G2 as good if not better than the Perdix? Mark answer these questions and plenty of others in this episode of #askmark

In this episode of the dive brief Mark talks about the best dive torches for 2021!

Most divers are taught the BWRAF checklist, and it works pretty well for open circuit diving. So, I’m going to break down each step, what to do, why we do it. And do my best to drum in that you really need to do it before every single dive with your buddy.

You see it a lot in our training; our maximum depth is usually foremost in the advertising; this course will qualify you down to 18m, the next one down to 30m, next 40 and so on. It’s very depth specific and focused. But, diving down deeper shouldn’t always be your goal!

So the world is heating up, China has a new fish drone to spy on us, a disease is found in Hawaii that could lead to mass marine deaths and a beluga whale dies 3 months after it’s moved to Connecticut! Is there any good news? Well, they recovered some whisky that has been sitting in Otter Lake for six decades so there’s that I guess… Welcome to Deco Stop!

So what is better the GoPro or the Paralenz? What should you use to patch pinhole leaks? What do you think about specialist fins? Mark answers these questions and plenty of others in this episode of #askmark

In this latest episode of the Dive Brief Mark talk about the best dive masks to hit the market this year.

If you didn’t know about thermal classes, get your wetsuit out and take a look at the huge label inside it. Flick through the seven or eight pages of the label and on one of them, you should find a thermal class grade; A, B, C or D.