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Bantin's Dive Equipment Blog for Mike's Dive Store London

  • Adding Weight

    Most people are naturally neutrally buoyant. With a normal relaxed lung volume, they neither float nor sink. Take a deep breath and you will float. Empty your lungs and you...

    Steve Brown |

  • Drift Diving

    Strong currents can be a delight if you know that your boat will come to pick you up after you surface. You bowl along effortlessly and the scenery rolls on...

    Steve Brown |

  • Hazardous Marine Life?

    So what about the sharks? Everything eats everything else in the ocean and yet, because the marine life has evolved over millions of years, the last-minute arrival of man on...

    Steve Brown |

  • Wreck Diving

    There is always something special about diving on the remains of a mighty ship that now lies on the seabed in its watery grave. Some shipwrecks got there because of...

    Steve Brown |

  • Which Fins For You?

    For years I was noted for my side-by-side equipment comparison tests in Diver Magazine. In fact I can claim to be the first to do this type of test for...

    Steve Brown |

  • Do You Need A Drysuit?

      My wife has gone for a short holiday to Iceland. While she is there, she plans to make a dive or two in a famous lake. Sounds chilly, doesn’t...

    Steve Brown |

  • What if You get Sick?

    What if you become ill just before setting off on an expensive dive trip or while you are away? You can’t stop people coughing their cold germs on you especially...

    Steve Brown |

  • Downloading Dives

    Reg Valentine was an original founder of the British Sub-Aqua Club and for many years operated a dive centre on the Italian island of Giglio, nowadays more famous for its...

    Steve Brown |

  • 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...

    Steve Brown |

  • 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,...

    Steve Brown |

  • 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...

    Steve Brown |

  • Anatomy of a Free-Flow

    Anatomy of a Free-FlowIt's a common sight. A diver is about to enter the water when suddenly his octopus or even his primary second-stage suddenly does an impression of a...

    Steve Brown |

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