ScubaGadget - The Deep Background on Scuba

Vance Harlow’s book “Oxygen Hacker’s Companion” (Airspeed Press) speaks of nitrox and gas mixing as a modern day dark art. In the introduction he claims that “dive shops and gas suppliers are both well aware of this mystique, often as not seem to enjoy their role as initiates of a discipline which is shrouded in [...]

Here’s an idea: take your scuba mask glue on bunch of hook thingies so you have a better chance of snagging your self on a ghost net. Then paint the sides of your mask to limit peripheral vision. Then add some other bits to make it harder to get a seal or clear a flooded mask. Why? So you [...]

If you have had problems with your new drysuit or if you loved it from the start, we need you input. We are preparing two upcoming articles on divers’ “OOB” (out of box experience) with their drysuits. If you have ever purchased a new drysuit please take our survey by clicking here: SCUBA GADGET DRY SUIT [...]

We hope there will be a day when all dive site are friendly to all people but until then check out this feature article on OutTraveler.com that lists the following among the worlds most gay-friendly dive spots.

Koh Samui, Thailand’s third largest island, boasts the country’s only LGBT diving organization. Rainbow Scubacoordinates trips in the calm southern Gulf [...]