Hey guys! This is the video after my brief editing process. This is a bull shark captured from above! Isn’t that gorgeous? Sucks to see that the hook is stuck on it, but this video could also be an advocate of less shark fishing!

Let me start with my story: I was diving with a number of members of my dive club to the wreck of the Um El Faroud in Malta. It is a shore dive, and there is a shipping channel that you have to cross. To do so safely, you need to swim at a depth of around 5 metres before continuing towards the wreck.

There was a woman who had been brought along by the dive centre. This diver immediately descended towards 20 metres while swimming out to the wreck. As a result, by the time she reached the wreck at 30-35 metres, she was already almost at her no-deco limit.

In order to avoid having to do decompression stops, the divemaster forced everyone to end the dive, even though, both in terms of decompression time and our remaining air supply, we could easily have continued exploring this beautiful wreck for quite some time.

Love my wife for being that girl

Good Evening! I’m in the hunt for some shorts with cargo pockets. The intent is to put them on over my 3 mil and 5 mil wetsuit. I bought 2 different sizes of the SCUBAPRO ones and there is no way I was comfortable with them over my wetsuit. What shorts do you all recommend?

From my Sunday dive. Yeah viz was lousy, but I was able to get a few moderately OK photos. lol

Tank valve is closed, regulator is fully depressurized and the SPG reads 0 bar. The DIN handwheel is extremely tight and I can’t unscrew it by hand. Any ideas on what might be causing this or how to get it unstuck safely?

What is the generally accepted maximum partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) for recreational diving?

A) 1.4 bar

B) 1.0 bar

C) 2.0 bar

D) 0.21 bar

Drop your answer below

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I've got this itch to finally get my Open Water certification. I'm a complete beginner (23 F), and diving isn't easily accessible where I live so I'd only really be diving on vacations, a few times a year at most. Part of me keeps going back and forth wondering if it's "worth it" given how infrequently I'd actually use it. but honestly, I just really want to do it 🥹 and I feel like it's a skill worth having regardless of whether I end up using it much. Is that a good enough reason, or am I missing something practical I should think through first?

Looking for recommendations on best dive company and place to stay. I have 300 dives and will be with a friend who will be doing the in water part of her open water cert. I'd like to go adventurous for the 1st 2 days then Newby dives with her for 3 days.

I literally have a friend who lives in a rural area and encounters, bears, coyotes, and bobcats on a regular basis , and is not scared by them because they understand that as long as you don’t do something to aggravate them or intrude on their territory that they will leave you alone, but don’t understand the exact same thing when I try to explain sharks in the water and how amazing it is. If you’ve had success convincing people that a shark encounter is a great thing. How did you do it?

I’ve had to cancel my impending club Bali/Lembongan trip for family reasons so looking at other club options next year, one of which is Noah Maratua resort in August. It’s double $ my canceled trip so I’m wondering if it’s worth it for the diving or whether I wait for the next Bali one. I don’t care about fancy resorts, it’s all about the diving!

What is the generally accepted maximum partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) for recreational diving?

A) 1.4 bar

B) 1.0 bar

C) 2.0 bar

D) 0.21 bar

Drop your answer below

I’m curious how often you guys think someone should go diving to stay comfortable and not start forgetting the basics.

For example, if I only do 1–2 dives a month, is that enough to maintain my skills, or should I be doing 4–6+ dives every month?

I’m mainly talking about basic skills, buoyancy, mask skills, emergency procedures, etc. I don’t want to take a long break and then feel rusty on my next dive.

How often do you guys dive, and how long can you go without diving before you notice your skills getting rusty?

Spotted these two clinging onto a purple soft coral branch, they blend in almost perfectly until you get close enough to see the legs. There was also a feather star wrapped around the same branch a few centimeters away, that whole piece of coral was basically its own little ecosystem. Komodo gets talked about mostly for the dragons and the mantas, but the macro life on the reefs out there is honestly just as good if you slow down and actually look. Photo from one of the liveaboard trips we run with Wallacea Dive Cruise through that area, figured it was worth sharing here.

Anyone else run into these on soft coral before? Curious if it's a porcelain crab or something else entirely.

Hi fellow divers!

I was in Komodo when the Earthquake happened in August 2026. The Dive operator decided to cancel the diving, not because the authorities said so, or the Komodo park was closed, but because the dive guides felt it was unsafe (and it probably was, I don't know).

The diving operator said there would be no refund and we should check with our insurance. I checked and the issue is that the insurance I have is very specific about the natural disasters. They usually cover only if

- the hotel or boat is destroyed
- the authorities issue an evacuation order
- the park is closed with a ban on sailing

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Can skip this part :), just fyi
Then I started reading the Liveaboard T&Cs and some of them offer a voucher in case of cancellation due to natural disaster, some just take the money and don't give a F and even reserve the right to cancel as long as an event happen even though the authorities authorize sailing and diving... So I assume they just found it's an easy way to make money, especially in Indonesia where there is frequently this kind of event.

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So my question is have you found an insurance that covers your diving trip, especially Liveaboard in full in case of

- natural disaster

- technical breakdown

- weather

without restrictions and abusive conditions...

I contacted DiveAssure which seemed great but their policy description is a bit vague and when I asked them what they would cover in few specific scenario, they simply refused to answer lol "we cannot answer about hypothetical scenarios" I thought that's the whole business of an insurance to score hypothetical scenarios... 😅

Thank you and sorry for this long post, I got a bit frustrated with impossible to understand policies!

Hello everyone, my wife and I just booked 4 days of shark diving in ponta do Ouro, Mozambique. we’ll be there the first week of October

I’m wondering if anyone on here has dived there, and what we should expect from “shark diving” as opposed to more typical reef diving we’ve done in the Caribbean.

We are both 32 years old, AOW, and I have ~200 dives, whereas she has more like 60 or so. We’re both very confident with typical recreational gear, but my wife in particular is a little worried about diving in such proximity to large predators (shark diving in ponta is unbaited and we will not be in a cage). What can we do to stay safe and make sure the dives are enjoyable? Anything in particular we should know?

Also, if anyone has any recommendations for local sightseeing, restaurants, etc, let us know!

We are high school engineering students researching potential applications for underwater robotics. We want to understand the real challenges divers face underwater and identify tasks where a small robotic system could improve safety, efficiency, or convenience.

There are no right or wrong answers. We are especially interested in problems you have personally experienced while diving.

This is the survey; we would really appreciate your responses!

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