How to Choose Your First International Dive Trip The short answer: pick your first trip based on what you're looking for and what each trip requires, not just which destination has the prettiest photos. Newly certified and more experienced divers.. Read More

Why We Chose SDI Over PADI (And What It Means for You as a Student) People ask me this more than almost anything else when they walk into the shop. They've seen PADI's logo everywhere, on dive flags, on rental gear, on every shop window in th.. Read More

How Much Does an International Dive Trip Cost? (Plus Payment Plans) Ask five dive shops what a trip to Roatan or Fiji costs and you'll get five vague answers, if you get one at all. Most travel pages show a starting price in big letters and leave the.. Read More

Private & One-on-One Scuba Lessons in Arizona: Who They're For Most people learn to dive in a group, and for most people that works fine. But every group class moves at one pace, and that pace isn't right for everyone. Maybe you're ne.. Read More

The Scuba Refresher Course: How to Get Back in the Water After Years Away Most divers who've been out of the water for a few years don't call the shop right away. They think about it, put it off, and quietly assume they'd have to start ce.. Read More

The Full SDI/TDI Certification Pathway, From Open Water to Instructor Walk in with your Open Water card and a few dives logged, and the wall of course names at the shop can look like a maze with no clear order. Advanced Adventure, Rescue Diver, Divem.. Read More

What Is a Master Diver? Every Requirement for SDI's Top Recreational Rating Someone at the shop, or a diver you met on a boat, mentioned they were working toward Master Diver, and now you're wondering what that means and whether you're al.. Read More

Is Rescue Diver Certification Worth It? What the Course Covers You've got your Advanced Adventure card, or fifteen logged dives sitting in your log book, and someone at the shop mentioned Rescue Diver as the next step. This one is different from .. Read More

Flying After Scuba Diving: How Long You Need to Wait You just logged your last dive of the trip in San Carlos, the gear's rinsed and packed, and the drive back to Queen Creek or the flight home leaves in a few hours. Before you go, there's a .. Read More

Can I Get Scuba Certified With a Medical Condition? The Complete Clearance Guide You've got an inhaler in your gear bag or a glucose meter in your carry-on, and somewhere along the way someone told you scuba diving just isn't in the cards for people .. Read More