Simply Scuba

Everybody loves a good shipwreck, and there are quite a few shipwrecks down there, we’ve dropped an awful lot of things in the water over the years, and we’ve sunk some ships on purpose. Either by blowing them up in wars, or taking some time to sink them somewhere properly.

Is 2022 going to be a big year for scuba diving? Was a Lionfish really found in Devon in the UK? Divers find a hoard of roman coins and is Ikea really going to stop selling their shark cuddle toy? We talk about this and more in this week's Deco Stop.

It's the start of a new month which only means one thing... Mark is here to talk about the fresh drops that have just hit our website!

Want to know how to look after your bolt snaps? Well, this is the right episode of Deep Dive for you!

Today we’re looking at navigating underwater, because it can be fairly easy to get turned around during a dive, especially in limited visibility.

So September has snuck upon us once again! And even though the dive season for many is coming to an end we still have fresh gear for you all to check out!

In this episode of the Dive Brief Mark talks about his favourite undersuits and why you should get them... if you're looking for a new undersuit that is!

I find them very different to normal dives, a bit more personal. Because a lot of the peripheral is completely dark all of your focus is on what’s in front of you...

The bends is an old term for what we now call decompression Illness, which includes decompression sickness and arterial air embolism. It got the name the bends when people suffering from DCI would walk around bent over to alleviate the pain. But put simply decompression illness is where some gas expands out of solution where it shouldn’t be in your body.

The best way to avoid decompression illness is to dive according to your training and be as conservative as possible, don’t ascend too quickly and don’t push your limits. It’s why most divers dive with a dive computer today. They are constantly working out how long you can stay down and when it’s safe to ascend. But just because your dive computer says it’s ok to ascend, doesn’t necessarily mean that it is. Let’s take a look at some of the things that can actually increase your chances of getting the bends and how to avoid them

Rescue diver, or whatever your training agency calls it, is what many divers aim for as a top certification, which is great, we need more rescue divers out there.