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Scuba Diving Training

Learn about scuba diving skills, trainings, certifications and lessons on how to make your scuba bottom time safe, fun and lasting! Also, see what it's like to scuba dive in crazy situations, read our Lessons for Life, get underwater photography tutorials and check out expert scuba dive hacks for any and every dive condition.

Buoyancy Calculator—How Much You Need in Dive Weights

Struggling to find the right amount of weight for scuba diving? Here's how you can test and calculate just how much weight you need for scuba diving.

The Ultimate Guide to Nitrox Diving

What is nitrox diving, what are the benefits of nitrox vs. air and how do you get your enriched air certification? Here’s everything divers need to know.

How to Find a Doctor for Scuba Medical Advice

It's wise to schedule a medical checkup before embarking on a dive trip—even better if you can see a doctor who specializes in diving. Thankfully, there are resources to help you find one.

Recent Articles

How the BARE Guardian Tech Dry Drysuit Performed in My Intro to Cave Class

Where better to put a drysuit through its paces than in Florida's iconic cave systems? Okay, maybe Antarctica, but when you test drysuits in Florida, something that can hold up to the rough limestone walls of a cave takes precedence.

Does Flash Photography Hurt Marine Life?

Photographs of marine animals can educate and inspire. In this edition of “Ask a Marine Biologist,” Dr. David Shiffman discusses whether taking those photos hurt the animals.

ASK DAN: How Can I Minimize My Decompression Stress?

Factors to review to prevent decompression sickness (DCS).

Hands-On Diving: American Sign Language in the World of Scuba

PADI’s first deaf course director Thomas Koch on audism, the benefits of American Sign Language and the underwater hand signal you really need to stop using.

The Healing Power of Scuba Diving

The transformative role of scuba diving in one counselor's recovery from an eating disorder and how it now benefits her clients

Finning Techniques All Divers Should Know

Whether you're a newer diver or a seasoned dive pro, it's useful to have a toolkit of finning techniques at your disposal. You don't need to be a tech diver to frog kick. Let's dig in.

Fiji After Dark: One Diver’s Journey Into Night Diving

How one woman discovered an inky universe and faced her fears during an advanced open-water certification off Vomo Island, Fiji.