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4 Tips For Selecting the Perfect Scuba DIving Mask
Sport Diver Magazine
Finding the ideal mask depends on a number of factors. Here are four features that can help you decide.
Related tags: Masks
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Dive Computers: Picking The Right Algorithm
Sport Diver Magazine
An algorithm is the mathematical formula a dive computer uses that factors in real-time measurements of depth, gas mix, time at depth—and, depending on the algorithm, potentially lots of other data—to calculate how long you can stay under water with a reasonable degree of assurance that you won’t get hit with decompression sickness (DCS). 
Related tags: dive computers | dive watches | Gauges and Computers
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How to Find a Leak-Proof Scuba Mask Without Getting Wet
Sport Diver Magazine
Buying your first scuba diving mask? Ideally, you'd be able to try various models on while in the water. If that's not practical or possible, follow our dry-fit tips for finding the mask that's perfect for your face.
Related tags: diving masks | Masks | scuba diving gear | scuba diving lessons
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6 Things to Leave at Home on Your Next Dive Trip
Sport Diver Magazine
You don’t need as much as you think you do on your next dive trip. Stroll onto the dive boat with less stress and a lighter load with this list of our six favorite things to leave behind. 
Related tags: scuba diving trips | scuba diving vacations | scuba equipment
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What To Look For in a Dive Computer
dive computers
When it comes to dive computers, you have a lot of choices. Here are four features you should know about.
Related tags: dive computers | Gauges and Computers
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Editor's Blog: Tech Dives at the Utila Dive Festival
Sport Diver Magazine
Ever wondered what it's like to dive with a sidemount or rebreather? So did I...
Related tags: Accessories | diving accessories | Regulators | scuba bc | Honduras
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Get Ready for Project AWARE's Debris Month of Action in September
Sport Diver Magazine
Take on the ocean's silent killer. September’s Debris Month of Action is a month-long rally to inspire underwater action to stop plastics, cigarette butts, fishing gear and countless other items from choking our ocean planet.
Related tags: padi | PADI News
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One Month Left for Society’s Member Card Photo Contest
Sport Diver Magazine
Calling all photographers (amateurs, professionals and students alike), submit your best underwater or dive lifestyle photo in the PADI Diving Society Member Card Photo Contest and your image could become the next Society card. Last year, more than 8100 PADI Instructors and Divers voted for the 2012 PADI Diving Society member card and chose Darin Dow Sakdatorn's black and white image of the Emily Flying Boat wreck in Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon. Who's next? Submit your best photo(s) by September 21, 2012 and your image may wind up in the hands of Society members worldwide.
Related tags: padi | PADI News
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Are Split Fins Right For You?
Sport Diver Magazine
Buying scuba gear isn’t easy, but for fins it’s doubly difficult with the perceived performance difference between split and paddle fins.
Related tags: dive fins | Fins | scuba equipment
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Join the Tribe - Become a PADI Divemaster
Sport Diver Magazine
When you Join the Tribe™ by becoming a PADI Divemaster, you align yourself with the largest and most respected dive tribe in the world – that of PADI Professionals. These are PADI Divemasters and Instructors who share a passion for diving and an active concern for the health of the world’s oceans. And, they want you to join the PADI Tribe, too, as a PADI Divemaster!
Related tags: padi | PADI News
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