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If you only dive a few times a year, hiring a scuba tank is usually cleaner than owning one. If you dive often around Sydney, owning a diving cylinder can make sense once you know your gas use, preferred valve type, and whether steel or aluminium gives you better trim....

The Shearwater Perdix 3 has one change that matters: the screen. It swaps the Perdix 2’s 2.2 inch LCD for a brighter 2.4 inch AMOLED with about four times the resolution. Almost everything else carries over. Same 260 metre depth rating, same battery life, same titanium build, same dive modes,...

That second winter dive can be the one that changes your mind. The first dive is fine, the surface interval is cold, and by the time you get back in, your wetsuit no longer feels like enough. A drysuit is worth considering if cold is cutting your dive short, you...

Walk into Frog Dive at Gladesville on a Saturday and you'll usually find someone working out their first spear gun setup at the counter. The questions are almost always the same. What size gun? How thick a wetsuit? Do I need a licence? And where am I allowed to go?...

This weekend, we had two impressive students Angel and Vera who got amongst the action and had a ball on our Discover Scuba Course! A big congratulations to both of these students and we can't wait to see them on an Open Water Course soon!A big thankyou goes out to...

The first wetsuit question many divers get wrong is asking how warm. The right question is what for. A 7mm steamer that's perfect for a winter Bare Island shore dive will cook you on a tropical liveaboard. A 3mm that handles Cairns won't get you through an hour at Shelly...

There are dozens of dive computers on the Australian market and four brands worth short-listing: Shearwater, Oceanic, Suunto and Garmin. Within those four, you'll find models from around $450 to over $3,000. The $450 unit is not worse than the $3,000 one for most divers. It's different. This guide is...

Most divers buy their first BCD within the first year of getting certified. It is the second-biggest gear purchase after a regulator set, and the choice between jacket, back-inflate, wing and travel is the one that causes the most confusion. Each style exists for a good reason, but which one...

Sydney is one of Australia's most underrated shore diving cities. Cold-water divers already know it; mainstream travel coverage rarely does. Between the ocean reefs at Manly, the protected bays off Clovelly, the sheltered harbour coves, and the weedy seadragon sites at La Perouse and Kurnell, scuba diving Sydney from the...