Academy skills
Core diving skills, step by step. Each lesson is reviewed for safety before it goes live.
Lessons 8
Each lesson builds on the one before. Start at 1, or jump to the skill you need.
Scuba diving equipment for beginners
What to buy, what to rent and in what order, so you don't buy the wrong gear twice.
Balanced scuba regulator: how to buy and care for one
Seven short chapters: how a regulator works, balanced or not, DIN or yoke, which brands, servicing and care.
How to defog a scuba mask
Four short chapters on why masks fog, how to prepare a new one, and the rinse most divers get wrong.
Pre-dive safety check (BWRAF)
BWRAF in five steps: check your BCD, weights, releases, air and buddy at setup and again just before you enter the water.
Mastering scuba diving buoyancy
Six short chapters: hover still, use less air and stop floating up.
Scuba diving ascents and descents
Nine short chapters on going down and coming up in control, and what to do when it goes wrong.
Scuba diving panic: what to do and how to prevent it
Five short chapters on how panic builds, what to do if it starts, how to help another diver and how to prevent it.
Essential underwater photography tips
Three short chapters: get close, put buoyancy before the camera, and understand light, settings and composition.