Each year divers plan overseas dive trips with much excitement and enjoyment, only to come across anxieties and concerns regarding travelling with dive gear on airlines. With this in mind I have decided to draw up a list of suggestions and ideas to help you with your planning and packing. With airline baggage allowances getting [...]
On one day, around the world, 15,000 AWARE Divers in more than 100 countries around the globe will document every item found beneath the water’s surface to help prevent the marine debris epidemic affecting our ocean planet At least 6 million tones of debris enter the world’s oceans each year, harming wildlife and underwater environments. The [...]
If you have had an extended time away from scuba diving and want to get back under water I would recommend that you do a Scuba review / refresher. An extended time would be 6 months or longer. With the latest busy lifestyles its amazing how quickly we can forget the basics. As a divemaster [...]
Apeks regulators have always been at the top of their game, being popular with both sport and technical divers. Their regulators are widely used internationally for extremely demanding dives due to their unprecedented reliability. Many twin tank divers including myself regularly trust them with our lives. Apeks regulators always offered good options with hose routing [...]
As we all know, German engineers don’t do things by half’s. The Heser backup torch is a perfect example of this. I found out about these little gems as an instructor of mine temporarily blinded me during a course with one. Upon surfacing I immediately asked to have a look and was pleasantly surprised at [...]
Deciding to purchase and dive a Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) is not one to be made lightly. There are many different reasons why people make the transition, including extending diving knowledge, reduced costs of deeper dives, additional bottom time or even for photography. Most rebreather divers will tell you that when you start out on [...]
ascending from a deep dive at Cream Gardens, Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve
You often read articles about learning to dive but the teaching team here at Global Dive get to look at it from the other side. People come to us with all sorts of reasons to learn to dive and we have to adapt and cater to these in order to give the client the course [...]
I have done most watersports (wake boarding, surfing, wind surfing, swimming, snorkeling and spearfishing) and I have always wanted to learn to dive. So from the first Open Water dive, I was totally hooked and this year has pretty much seen me completing a life long dream. I have spent almost more time in the [...]
