“How Did That Get in There?” Simon Pridmore looks at the common practice of filling scuba cylinders while they are standing in water and asks “Why?”...
Where’s the Oxygen? Simon Pridmore looks at how prepared dive operations really are to deal with a diving accident and suggest that we ask one key...
Sabotaging the Industry from Within Simon Pridmore argues that the poor treatment meted out to new scuba divers could be a significant factor contributing to the...
Let’s face the facts, diving accidents do happen. Thankfully not too often, but as an active scuba diver the law of probability states that sooner or...
The Buddy System: Smart Idea or Recipe for Disaster? Are you always safer diving with another person or are you actually better off diving solo sometimes?...
“You’ve just killed everyone,” said Chris Demetriou, the Ops Manager at Dive-In. We had been deep inside the Zenobia, Cyprus’s top wreck site, and sure enough...
Having been a diver for over 15 years I have been lucky enough to experience all sorts of dives including fast drifts, walls, pretty coral reefs,...
Whilst not the most glamorous sounding course in the PADI Specialty repertoire, Peak Performance Buoyancy is probably the key ingredient in the recipe for becoming a...
I have been teaching PADI courses for over 10 years now and as good practice I tend to ask people what course they have enjoyed the...
We humans are remarkable and our dreams become a reality soon after an inventor puts their thinking caps on. We have taught ourselves to fly like...
In her latest blog for Scubaverse.com, Cyprus-based dive centre owner Alexandra Dimitriou writes about her recent experience of attending a PADI Business Academy. I recently went to...
“I queried those at the back of the boat about whether Al had gone into the water on purpose, fallen in by accident or something else....
