Scuba Diving

Why Dive?

From the very earliest age, I remember a deep fascination with water. Any kind of water, from a noisy public swimming pool, to the sun sparkling on the waves of the North Sea. I loved family fishing trips and eventually fishing became my main hobby. Water intrigued me!

Although I had many opportunities to learn to dive, strangely enough I didn't really feel the need. I felt my spare time was occupied with enough other distractions. A vacation to the Florida Keys and a tourist snorkel trip changed all that instantly. The colors and the life were important but probably what was more significant was the feeling of interaction with this alien world, albeit still as an observer. As i got off that boat I knew I wanted to dive. That I had to dive. The next day I signed up for a certification course and the rest is history.

Weightlessness

The feeling of weightless movement is truly incredible. The moment you achieve a completely neutral buoyancy where the slightest changes in breathing will alter your position in the water column is enlightening.

Exploration

The opportunity for exploration is infinite, whether that exploration is to poke around holes on a 40ft deep reef, or at the extremes of cave diving, being the first human in the history of this planet to enter a certain water filled cave. The possibilities are endless.

Biology

Although aproximately 70% of the Earths surface is covered by water, it is easy to forget that the distribution of the Earth's biology is divided into a similar ratio. As divers we are part of the fortunate few that can interact with this largely unkown parallel universe that we live alongside. Every reef dive provides a new insight and for many divers leads to determined out of water study, where it becomes evident just how little is known even about the behaviour of even the most abundant organisms.

Technology

There can be no doubt that diving equipment satisfies the appetites of the most hardened technoholics. So many valves, buttons, hand wheels to play with! Mastering this technology is not so difficult, but definitely requires patience and practice. Unfortunately it seems increasingly common for divers to rely on the underlying technology withe very little understanding of potential issues and what can be done to address them. While serious equipment related accidents are fairly uncommon in recreational open water scuba diving, they do happen and usually with serious consequences. As a diver I believe you owe it to yourself to learn at least a little about the technology that you trust to support your life.

Links to Dive Trips and Information...

Diving In Mexico

Mexico is a paradise for scuba divers, with incredible diversity, from high altitude saline volcanic lakes such as Lake Alchichica to the fast bluewater drift diving at Cozumel ... and the cave diving! Well more about that later.

Diving In Florida

Florida is where I learned to scuba dive and while by no means the most spectacular recreational diving in the world it's still pretty good, with a great variety of reefs and wrecks. Most of the wrecks are in fact artificial reefs, old ships cleaned up and sunk on purpose for divers and fisherman.