• What is PADI and How Do I Get Certified?

    What is PADI and How Do I Get Certified?

    What is PADI? PADI is a recreational diving agency. The agency trains and certifies students to become members in both beginner and professional levels of diving. PADI offers scuba diving, freediving, skin-diving (snorkeling), and technical diving courses. These courses are standardized around the world. This means if you undertake a PADI Open Water course in

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  • How Deep Can You Dive Before Being Crushed?

    How Deep Can You Dive Before Being Crushed?

    There are a few factors to consider when trying to determine a diver’s “crush limit”. The human body consists of up to 60% water, leaving 40% of body tissue. Air compartments surrounded by body tissue and the water percentile itself have different susceptibility to crushing. The easiest to crush are our air spaces such as

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    Diving on The Junk Liveaboard in Thailand

    Diving on The Junk Liveaboard in Thailand

    Please note; this review was not sponsored at all. However, since posting this article the owner has now reached out to me based on my review and offered to go into partnership with myself and Down to Scuba. To help out my free diving blog, please quote Emma and Down to Scuba when booking your

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    I know I am Properly Weighted for Diving if I…

    I know I am Properly Weighted for Diving if I…

    Finding the right number of weights for your dive can determine whether you have a great dive or a disaster of a dive. If you realize you have the wrong number of weights after jumping into the ocean it can be annoying or even dangerous. You will need to consider a number of factors to

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  • How Deep can you Scuba Dive?

    How Deep can you Scuba Dive?

    Looking to explore the underwater world? It seems almost as unreachable as traveling to another planet. In fact, the deep ocean is almost as unexplored as space! So if the lure of the deep ocean is calling you, and you are wondering how deep can you scuba dive, then take a look at this article.

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  • Diving in Roatan, Honduras – Caribbean

    Diving in Roatan, Honduras – Caribbean

    WHERE ARE WE GOING? Today we are diving in Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras, in the Caribbean Sea! WHY ARE WE DIVING IN ROATAN? Diving in Roatan is still a bit of a hidden gem in terms of what it is known for. The area boasts diving on the second biggest barrier reef in the world

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Down To Scuba is a one-stop guide to scuba diving, snorkeling, and freediving. It’s also a resource for marine life and ocean conservation.

As full-time working PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer Instructors, Emma & Lionel have come across most scuba diving questions, and have picked up loads of tips along the way. With our network and community of fellow instructors and divers, we have complied all of our scuba knowledge into this handy guide!

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