Eight things every diver should do before they die

 

Do a drift dive in a 2 knot current

You’ve just got to experience that feeling of “flying” across a reef, occasionally grabbing a rock to stop and examine something more closely.

 

Do a night dive

Overcome the natural fear and prepare to be amazed – if you think you see lots of fish in the day, wait until you look at night!

 

Accompany someone on their first try dive

Watch their face as they suddenly realize they can breathe underwater!

 

Dive a serious wreck

I’m talking about something over 100 meters long. It’s awesome to swim the decks of a really big vessel on the sea bed and to “feel” the people that lived and worked in it.

 

Ride an underwater scooter

It’s just the most fun you can have – and your air lasts forever!

 

Spend a whole week diving every day

It tests your skills and your equipment, but there’s so much satisfaction from coming through a “Diving marathon”

 

Try nitrox as a post dive party hangover cure

It does actually work!

 

Propel a diver across a pool using a dive tank and a lilo

Twin sets work best for this!

Outboard

 

Dive naked

Just look out for the Barracuda!

 

How many of these have you done? I’ve got one to go, can you guess which? Let me know in comments.

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Scuba Mike's Dive Trip to Gibraltar - Part One

Once again by invitation from a UK dive club, I was lucky enough to check out diving in Gibraltar a couple of years ago. The Brits all flew direct to Gibraltar from Gatwick, but my wife and I decided to make a trip of it, and drove down from Madrid.

Diving things to do be fore you die.

Hey Mike I have done them all except one, never tried the Nitrox hangover cure.

Diving things to do before you die

Have only managed the first 3.Drift dive and night dive were in the Maldives. Currents around the small reefs were very strong; you could float like a star and be completely helpless to stop yourself. Great fun so long as you relaxed. Night dive was off the house reef; just two of us and the dive master.Superb experience, saw plankton when we put our torches to our chests.Everything looked very different to the day diving. As we descended we saw 3 large stingrays above us and admired the white bellies and gills opening and closing. Then saw them below us as we ascended which was when the dive master got the fright of his life as we beach exited and a stringray missed him by inches!3rd thing was letting a young friend "trial" dive in my swimming pool and also joining her in her first open water dive at Teguise Playa beach.First dive was crystal clear (my pool) but nothing to see; second dive was very murky , plenty to see but could not be seen

Ah, memories... You brought back a dive trip memory

#6 (Spend a whole week diving every day) brought back memories of a scuba trip I took in 2006 to Bonaire. We dove 4-5 times a day for a full week.

But the memory you brought back was actually our adventure to actually get down to Bonaire. We flew down there the same day that the Montserrat volcano exploded in the early summer of 2006. It was like a comedy of errors.

I just had to write it down this morning on my blog... =)

http://www.scubasave.com/news/2009/03/crazy-bonaire-scuba-adventure/

-Kris

Brilliant Post

Readers! If you haven't already clicked on Kris' link, then do it! It's a hilarious post!

Scuba Mike

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