Bantin's Dive Equipment Blog for Mike's Dive Store London
Hoods & Gloves
Your brain is your most important organ and demands a plentiful supply of blood yet few of us have much naturally provided thermal insulation in that area. We lose a...
Hoods & Gloves
Your brain is your most important organ and demands a plentiful supply of blood yet few of us... Read More
Are You Fit Enough To Dive?
Breath-hold divers like Umberto Pelizzari (pictured) need to be really fit. They also need to be able to clear their ears easily and repeatedly. How fit do you need to...
Are You Fit Enough To Dive?
Breath-hold divers like Umberto Pelizzari (pictured) need to be really fit. They also need to be able to... Read More
Look Before You Leap
Safety is the first thought of and most important aspect of scuba diving. With all your pre-dive checks completed, it's time to get into the water. Diving from the shore,...
Look Before You Leap
Safety is the first thought of and most important aspect of scuba diving. With all your pre-dive checks... Read More
Liveaboard Dive Boats
Nearly twenty-five years ago, I was a dive-guide on a liveaboard dive boat in the Red Sea. It was then considered to be the doyen of liveaboard dive boats. It...
Liveaboard Dive Boats
Nearly twenty-five years ago, I was a dive-guide on a liveaboard dive boat in the Red Sea. It... Read More
Choosing Your First Regulator
A regulator is the device that allows you to breathe air from your tank. The modern two-stage scuba-diving regulator valve started off life as a relatively simple item of engineering....
Choosing Your First Regulator
A regulator is the device that allows you to breathe air from your tank. The modern two-stage scuba-diving... Read More
The Art of Finning
So you bought the latest high-tech fins. Why does that kid with cheap old flippers shoot past you? Why do you not seem to make the progress you should when...
The Art of Finning
So you bought the latest high-tech fins. Why does that kid with cheap old flippers shoot past you?... Read More
Good Nutrition & a Healthy Life-style
Good scuba divers use their brains and their equipment to manoeuvre under water. They control their buoyancy and aim to expend as little energy as possible during a dive. In...
Good Nutrition & a Healthy Life-style
Good scuba divers use their brains and their equipment to manoeuvre under water. They control their buoyancy and... Read More
Getting Close to Sharks
Sharks do one of three things. They feed, they clean and they mate. As a diver, you'd be very fortunate to witness the last of these activities, which leaves feeding...
Getting Close to Sharks
Sharks do one of three things. They feed, they clean and they mate. As a diver, you'd be... Read More
Choosing a Wetsuit
Gone are the days when the most difficult part of learning to dive was struggling into a wetsuit. People were often heard cursing not always quietly as they disappeared behind...
Choosing a Wetsuit
Gone are the days when the most difficult part of learning to dive was struggling into a wetsuit.... Read More
Dropping Your Weights
On the second dive of the first day of a diving trip to the Bahamas, Daily Telegraph journalist David Graves drowned and died. It was a terrible tragedy. I was...
Dropping Your Weights
On the second dive of the first day of a diving trip to the Bahamas, Daily Telegraph journalist... Read More
Amazing Diving Stories
We all have anecdotes to tell of things that happened during dive trips. The aft deck of dive boats ring loud with divers competing to outdo each other with unusual...
Amazing Diving Stories
We all have anecdotes to tell of things that happened during dive trips. The aft deck of dive... Read More
Children & Diving
When it comes to activities, don't force your children to do things they don't want to do. I'm a qualified instructor with more than one training agency but when my...
Children & Diving
When it comes to activities, don't force your children to do things they don't want to do. I'm... Read More
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- Air Integrated Dive Computers
- Amazing Diving Stories
- Bahamas
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- Buyer's Guide
- Children's Wetsuits
- Conservation
- Cuba
- Currents
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