Everything on the site about scuba diving: dive sites worth the trip, gear and cover, and the safety questions that come up before a descent.
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A prescription dive mask is a different purchase from a snorkel mask, and depth is the least of it. Reading a computer is close work, and masks come off.
Series: Snorkeling with glasses
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Rottnest dives from Fremantle day boats and snorkels from its own beaches. The five sanctuary zones, the two marked snorkel trails, a June dive at Crystal Palace — and how the island sat out WA's worst bleaching year.
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Nitrox buys you longer no-stop times, but on a standard cylinder you run out of gas before you run out of table at every depth shallower than about 100 feet. The arithmetic, the depth limits, and what fourteen dive shops charged on 10 August 2026.
Series: Getting into scuba
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Asthma stopped being a blanket bar to recreational diving years ago; an individual assessment replaced it. What the form asks, and where guidance differs.
Series: Getting into scuba
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A recompression table costs about $1,340 at Medicare rates and the median case needs three of them, before the $20,000 ride to the chamber. DAN, DiveAssure and World Nomads compared on the clauses that decide a claim — checked against the 2026 policy documents.
Series: Getting into scuba
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Rawa is a private island inside Malaysia's largest marine park, with one dive center, one reef and no way to visit for a day. The season, the RM30 fee, what the 2024 bleaching did, and whether you should go to Tioman instead.
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The Shearwater Peregrine is the first computer to buy — big color screen, Bühlmann with gradient factors, the best service in diving. The Mares Puck 4 covers tight budgets, the Peregrine TX adds air integration, and the Garmin Descent G2 is the one-watch answer.
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You have booked a first dive and nobody said what it involves. The age, medical and swimming gates as agencies write them, and what goes wrong on a descent.
Series: Getting into scuba
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The wait-after-eating rule is a 1908 myth the Red Cross formally dismissed. What a diver should eat and drink before a dive, what to skip, and where the real risks sit — alcohol, reflux and dehydration — from DAN and the peer-reviewed record.
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