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It is not uncommon when diving to have a little water leak into your diving mask. This can happen if there is a small breach between the seal and your face (for instance you get hair between them). Sometimes your mask can get flooded if it gets knocked for whatever reaso...

With the recent breath holding world record set at a new high of over 19 minutes, a lot of people are wondering how it is that a human can go without oxygen for so long. Our guide will give you a quick-start int...

Shallow water blackout (SWB) A shallow water blackout is a loss of consciousness caused by cerebral hypoxia towards the end of a breath-hold dive in water typically shallower than five meters (16 feet), when the swimmer d...

What is nitrogen narcosis? Nitrogen narcosis is a condition of confusion or stupor resulting from increased levels of dissolved nitrogen in the blood, occurring when breathing compressed air. Its effects usually become noticeable when diving below 30m (100ft), although it is reported some divers are affected as low as 20metres...

Being under water is like being in the outer space, every thing is different and knowledge is no luxury it's a matter of life and death ,,even the smallest bet of information can save your l...

Rules of th Deep The effects of pressure Being underwater means being under pressure, and that pressure increases rapidly as you dive deeper. That means that the various gas laws come into play, and...

Scuba diving ("scuba" originally being an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, although now widely considered a word in its own) is a form of underwater diving in which a diver...

The smoke that was coming out of the boat exhaust was filling my air passages, and the diesel engine of the tug boat was wouding my ears... the sun was so hot, that you could not walk on the surface bare foot without getting ur feet burned... the waves were higher than usual making it unsafe to dive, especially in ur early training...