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A friend of mine bought a pair of running shoes the other day and ended up hating them after 3 days and kept on complaining. I asked him the reason for all his ramblings about his newly bought branded shoes and he said the fittings was bad. The first thing came to my mind was the big question “Did he even tried the shoes first?” And yes, for being such a brand conscious, he spent his money on a good brand that did not give him what he expected. So what had he learned from the experience? Good brand name does not necessarily means great product for you. What I am trying to say here is you have to try some products before you can decide whether to invest in them or not as the results may be different for different individual.

The same thing applies when you decide that you are going to buy a pair of diving mask for your personal use. There are of course many great brand names out there for you to choose. However, the question is which one fits you the best. In scuba diving activity, other than having a great diving skill, you also need to have equipment personally good for you. Mask play an important role. Bad fitting will only allow water to keep sipping into your mask making uncomfortable dive.It does not matter if you own a cheap pair of mask if it works perfect for you. You saved more and you gain more benefit from it. This is one piece of equipment that needed to be tested first before buying, just like a wetsuit.

When you learn scuba diving, your instructor or the long video presentation will give you important tips on how to buy a right fitting mask. Of course I will share with you here as well. It is by far the easiest method to determine your personal fitting. Put the mask on your face, inhale through your nose and hold it for few seconds, look down, if the mask doesn’t fall off you just found a right fittings for you. One more factor to consider is to make sure the lenses are tempered glass. Why, in a very unlikely event, should the lenses break it will only crack all over instead of shattering into your face. Next, check the nose pocket, is it comfy? Does it cover your nose well or is it too small for your nose? Keep testing until you get the right one for you. Remember, for you personally.

It does not really matter if the mask have double or single lens. At this point, you are already sure that you have found a correct fitting mask. So what’s left for you? Choose your colour if you should, get an extra strap or get a prescribed lens if you have to. Want a more sophisticated mask? Try the full face mask if available but I would not recommend those to newbies as it needs more experience and of course they cost more than a normal pair.

That is all for now. Hopefully this article can help you and others too. I did the same thing as I wrote and I had a blast with them until now. Enjoy your dive activity and yes, dive safely, that is the only way to enjoy it. If you want to do more things underwater, go upgrade your level or just keep collecting experience by diving more.

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On the recent post, I have shared bits of the training with you. On this one, I will uncover more about the training but not the whole thing. I only share with you the skills I find really useful and at the same time a mandatory to master with.

Okay, so your instructor will teach you how to breath from the regulator. In the open water scuba diving course, the number one priority is to make sure a student can handle and maybe solve a problem no matter how small it is.  These skills will help you a lot everytime you make a dive. These competency  will also give your instructor better credibility unless you want him or her out of business.

So here are some of the most critical parts of open water training which will determine whether you are up for it or not. Number one and main factor of failure is the diving mask removal and clearing mastery. We, you and I are humans. We are not meant to breath in water. The moment water gets into our throat forcefully or accidentally, the brain reaction is to tell you to stop breathing, after a minute or more the brain experience oxygen starvation and eventually shut off the system temporarily, the main factor of drowning.

Mastering masks skills are so important they were placed in the first few parts of your training. Not towards the end. As you know, while scuba diving, your environment is no longer on your side. Without a proper technique to manipulate and adapting to it, you will meet trouble. Water will always try to sip into any empty spaces such as your diving masks. If you can think of any way to permanently prevent this without spending on another hi-tech and expensive full face dive masks, please share with me.

I found out that many of us have issues with the sea water sipping into our dive masks. It is not a comfortable to think that you might breathe water in through your nose. At some point it can triggers the fear of drowning which always resulted panic and inability to think rationally.

The best way to overcome this problem is get familiar with the diving masks. You can start by doing some snorkeling and swimming, preferably in the sea. Most of the time, your instructor will give you some tips as well during the course but it is best to have experience it first than to discover you can’t complete your open water course just because you can’t perform masks involving skills underwater.

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On the recent post, I have shared bits of the training with you. On this one, I will uncover more about the training but not the whole thing. I only share with you the skills I find really useful and at the same time a mandatory to master with.

Okay, so your instructor will teach you how to breath from the regulator. In the open water scuba diving course, the number one priority is to make sure a student can handle and maybe solve a problem no matter how small it is.  These skills will help you a lot everytime you make a dive. These competency  will also give your instructor better credibility unless you want him or her out of business.

So here are some of the most critical parts of open water training which will determine whether you are up for it or not. Number one and main factor of failure is the diving mask removal and clearing mastery. We, you and I are humans. We are not meant to breath in water. The moment water gets into our throat forcefully or accidentally, the brain reaction is to tell you to stop breathing, after a minute or more the brain experience oxygen starvation and eventually shut off the system temporarily, the main factor of drowning.

Mastering masks skills are so important they were placed in the first few parts of your training. Not towards the end. As you know, while scuba diving, your environment is no longer on your side. Without a proper technique to manipulate and adapting to it, you will meet trouble. Water will always try to sip into any empty spaces such as your diving masks. If you can think of any way to permanently prevent this without spending on another hi-tech and expensive full face dive masks, please share with me.

I found out that many of us have issues with the sea water sipping into our dive masks. It is not a comfortable to think that you might breathe water in through your nose. At some point it can triggers the fear of drowning which always resulted panic and inability to think rationally.

The best way to overcome this problem is get familiar with the diving masks. You can start by doing some snorkeling and swimming, preferably in the sea. Most of the time, your instructor will give you some tips as well during the course but it is best to have experience it first than to discover you can’t complete your open water course just because you can’t perform masks involving skills underwater.

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On the recent post, I have shared bits of the training with you. On this one, I will uncover more about the training but not the whole thing. I only share with you the skills I find really useful and at the same time a mandatory to master with.

Okay, so your [...]

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I am back to bring you more about the crazy little thing called scuba dive. This time I am discussing about what does it takes for any person who wants or desires to get wet and wild.

So what do you need? I would say the most important thing to have is your guts. Come on guys, there is no point if you freak out just by the sight of the ocean. make an appointment with a psychologist or who ever you can help you to get rid of the water phobic you have. But honestly, who really afraid of water. No one otherwise someone is going to have issues with hygienes.

Don’t worry if you are not good at getting along with others. Once you are involved in scuba diving, you will learn how to in no time at all.

Next, please people, learn the basic swimming. I’d rather sitting with my cocktail mix on the lounger than diving with with someone who couldn’t swim both underwater and at the surface. Too risky, too many paper works. Instructors, please make sure your student can at least swim no matter in what styles of swimming. Don’t compromise your credibility.

People, please make sure you know what you are about to face and experience. Understand that you are going to stay submerged for almost an hour at depth for almost an hour. Make sure you fully understand all the risks involved when participating into scuba diving. As a professional we are very susceptible to legal action simply because a diver didn’t fully understand how to minimize risks and how to avoid mishaps. Not good for the industry.

Finally, you don’t have to be an environmental activist. All that is required is your sense of respect for the nature. Regardless underwater or dry lands.

To wrap it up, anyone can be a scuba diver providing you have the desire to do it. Anyone, even a person with special condition. Just remember to include all the basic requirements I put above.

Come back for more next time. Next posting will be more interesting. To the pros and experienced one, comments and tips are very welcome.

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I am back to bring you more about the crazy little thing called scuba dive. This time I am discussing about what does it takes for any person who wants or desires to get wet and wild.

So what do you need? I would say the most important thing to have is your guts. Come on guys, there is no point if you freak out just by the sight of the ocean. make an appointment with a psychologist or who ever you can help you to get rid of the water phobic you have. But honestly, who really afraid of water. No one otherwise someone is going to have issues with hygienes.

Don’t worry if you are not good at getting along with others. Once you are involved in scuba diving, you will learn how to in no time at all.

Next, please people, learn the basic swimming. I’d rather sitting with my cocktail mix on the lounger than diving with with someone who couldn’t swim both underwater and at the surface. Too risky, too many paper works. Instructors, please make sure your student can at least swim no matter in what styles of swimming. Don’t compromise your credibility.

People, please make sure you know what you are about to face and experience. Understand that you are going to stay submerged for almost an hour at depth for almost an hour. Make sure you fully understand all the risks involved when participating into scuba diving. As a professional we are very susceptible to legal action simply because a diver didn’t fully understand how to minimize risks and how to avoid mishaps. Not good for the industry.

Finally, you don’t have to be an environmental activist. All that is required is your sense of respect for the nature. Regardless underwater or dry lands.

To wrap it up, anyone can be a scuba diver providing you have the desire to do it. Anyone, even a person with special condition. Just remember to include all the basic requirements I put above.

Come back for more next time. Next posting will be more interesting. To the pros and experienced one, comments and tips are very welcome.

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So what do you need? I would say the most important thing to [...]

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So you think you have what it takes to scuba dive now. Or you finally managed to convince yourself and your partner or best friends that scuba dive is okay. The next step is to find a dive training center nearby to sign up for the first level of scuba diving, Open Water Diver Course. But please wait for a minute and keep reading this post to know what exactly you are going to experience during the course. Very important so you have ideas of what the instructors are going to put you through.

I want to share with you in a very simple way about the trainings and the exercises you will meet. Scuba diving training is basically a progressive method which you start from someone who has no idea to someone who can claim yourself to be an expert depending on how you define expert.

First, you will have to go through a long session of academics which can be very exciting as well as boring. For me this is the worst part in the whole course. With 5 modules of 45minutes videos and cheesy presentations, you’d wished it to end quickly. Trust me you’ll have to agree with me later.

Depending on your instructor, you might have to go through 2 exams the same day even or in between your course. Don’t worry the exams are very easy to score and should you fail you are allowed to resit the exams. They are very easy, seriously unless you can’t read.

After the classroom, you will begin your in water training. These are the best part. These are the moment you will find out whether you can dive or not. These are your moment of truth. I am going to share with you some of the skills you have to master in order to become a competent scuba diver.

First skill, getting familiar with your equipments. Overall of 14kg to be carried on your back are the buoyancy jackets, the regulator, the tank and the lead weights. The jacket can be both inflated and deflated, you get the idea? To float and to sink. The regulator is your life line. It allows you to breathe underwater providing you know how to breathe. Haha.  The tank supplies beer to you while diving. Huh? Of course it supplies air so you can breathe. The lead weights are to anchor you at the bottom to join in with the wrecks. Seriously no, the weights are to compensate your naturally buoyant human body so you sink underwater and at the same time not heavy enough to surface up.

With my explanation, hopefully you get a rough idea about your equipments and their purposes. Come back for more explanation on what skills you will learn for underwater purpose.

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So you think you have what it takes to scuba dive now. Or you finally managed to convince yourself and your partner or best friends that scuba dive is okay. The next step is to find a dive training center nearby to sign up for the first level of scuba diving, Open Water Diver Course. But please wait for a minute and keep reading this post to know what exactly you are going to experience during the course. Very important so you have ideas of what the instructors are going to put you through.

I want to share with you in a very simple way about the trainings and the exercises you will meet. Scuba diving training is basically a progressive method which you start from someone who has no idea to someone who can claim yourself to be an expert depending on how you define expert.

First, you will have to go through a long session of academics which can be very exciting as well as boring. For me this is the worst part in the whole course. With 5 modules of 45minutes videos and cheesy presentations, you’d wished it to end quickly. Trust me you’ll have to agree with me later.

Depending on your instructor, you might have to go through 2 exams the same day even or in between your course. Don’t worry the exams are very easy to score and should you fail you are allowed to resit the exams. They are very easy, seriously unless you can’t read.

After the classroom, you will begin your in water training. These are the best part. These are the moment you will find out whether you can dive or not. These are your moment of truth. I am going to share with you some of the skills you have to master in order to become a competent scuba diver.

First skill, getting familiar with your equipments. Overall of 14kg to be carried on your back are the buoyancy jackets, the regulator, the tank and the lead weights. The jacket can be both inflated and deflated, you get the idea? To float and to sink. The regulator is your life line. It allows you to breathe underwater providing you know how to breathe. Haha.  The tank supplies beer to you while diving. Huh? Of course it supplies air so you can breathe. The lead weights are to anchor you at the bottom to join in with the wrecks. Seriously no, the weights are to compensate your naturally buoyant human body so you sink underwater and at the same time not heavy enough to surface up.

With my explanation, hopefully you get a rough idea about your equipments and their purposes. Come back for more explanation on what skills you will learn for underwater purpose.

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So you think you have what it takes to scuba dive now. Or you finally managed to convince yourself and your partner or best friends that scuba dive is okay. The next step is to find a dive training center nearby to sign up for the first level of scuba diving, Open [...]

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For this first post of my favorite activity, I am going to describe scuba diving in my very own way. I want to share with everyone about this underwater passion in the easiest and simplest way to understand and to promote enjoyable readings with hope that it can benefit both beginners and experienced divers.

Right, first thing first. The introduction of scuba diving. Scuba basically stands for Self.Confessed.Underwater.Breathing.Addict. This sounds so much better than Self.Contained.Underwater.Breathing.Apparatus which sounds so plain and boring right? Haha but seriously, scuba diving is meant to be fun and exciting.

It is nothing like snorkeling where you just hover at the surface waiting for the Nemo to lunge a surprise attack at you. It is nothing like staring into an aquarium at the poor fishes waiting to be fed. Not exciting at all.

Trust me 60 percent of nowadays scuba divers around the world, professional or non-professional are proud people and will most likely to brag about their feats underwater. 25 percent will most likely to show off their futuristic dive gears. 10 percent of them most likely to become accessories freak and another 5 percent are old school divers who sticked with their antiques equipment.

In diving community, almost everyone had met with each other or heard about one another. It is a massive social networking that goes around the globe and just gets bigger every time. Amazing stories can be heard every time you meet other divers. Experiences either nice or not so nice shared with each other without hesitation.

This is my personal definition for global unity, maybe not so but this is where every person shares the same passion, underwater and the peaceful feeling it brings to every soul who has been there. Amazing right.

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For this first post of my favorite activity, I am going to describe scuba diving in my very own way. I want to share with everyone about this underwater passion in the easiest and simplest way to understand and to promote enjoyable readings with hope that it can benefit both beginners and experienced divers.

Right, first thing first. The introduction of scuba diving. Scuba basically stands for Self.Confessed.Underwater.Breathing.Addict. This sounds so much better than Self.Contained.Underwater.Breathing.Apparatus which sounds so plain and boring right? Haha but seriously, scuba diving is meant to be fun and exciting.

It is nothing like snorkeling where you just hover at the surface waiting for the Nemo to lunge a surprise attack at you. It is nothing like staring into an aquarium at the poor fishes waiting to be fed. Not exciting at all.

Trust me 60 percent of nowadays scuba divers around the world, professional or non-professional are proud people and will most likely to brag about their feats underwater. 25 percent will most likely to show off their futuristic dive gears. 10 percent of them most likely to become accessories freak and another 5 percent are old school divers who sticked with their antiques equipment.

In diving community, almost everyone had met with each other or heard about one another. It is a massive social networking that goes around the globe and just gets bigger every time. Amazing stories can be heard every time you meet other divers. Experiences either nice or not so nice shared with each other without hesitation.

This is my personal definition for global unity, maybe not so but this is where every person shares the same passion, underwater and the peaceful feeling it brings to every soul who has been there. Amazing right.

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