Educational Scuba Articles

Marine-inspired art and my mental health: I was 14 when they gave me a diagnosis. I couldn’t remember the last time I was happy, I was insecure, I felt stressed, …

Is researching and studying Orcas one of your dream jobs? For Girls that Scuba member Suzie Hall her dream came true when she went to work with Orca Lab in Vancouver Island, here’s …

Are you looking to join a female dive club or community in your area? We love having you all over on our Girls that Scuba groups, and we’d love to …

Whilst most dives expose us to amazing corners of our underwater world, not every experience with a scuba diving operator is a great one. These negative experiences can be as …

Divemaster courses are always a hot topic in our Girls that Scuba group, and with so many different ways of completing the course there’s a lot to understand and a tonne …

Let me introduce myself, my name is Irene and I am one of the Girls that Scuba Ambassadors. I have been diving for 23 years, I am an avid freediver as well as …

Once the underwater world has captured you, it’s easy to start thinking about how you can make it your everyday life by looking into scuba diving jobs. We’ve already explored …

Have you wondered exactly why we are told not to touch or harass marine life? Even if a turtle comes right up to looking like it wants a high five …

Like many of us, my travel and diving plans for this year have changed, and I’m in England. I’ve never dived in UK waters before, but it’s been a year …

Delayed surface marker buoys are one of the most important pieces of safety equipment we carry as scuba divers. However, they’re often under-used and a lot of new divers aren’t armed with …

It will come as no surprise that we get lots of questions about dive courses within our Girls that Scuba group, and whilst most queries about the Open Water course can …

We’re big fans of scuba diving in the Philippines here at Girls that Scuba. With its incredible shark hotspots, awe-inspiring wreck diving, and a multitude of other stunning sites dotted around the country’s 7000 …

If you’re working anywhere within the business of diving, it’s important to keep informed on scuba diving industry trends. With a community of 48,000+ female scuba divers in our Facebook group, here …

Scuba diving in the UK is not always the top of divers’ bucket lists. However, once you start exploring more you’ll find that some dive sites in the UK offer world-class diving. One …

For us scuba divers, the ocean is our playground. We descend under the surface, we explore, and we often have the privilege of observing beautiful creatures and alien environments – …

Right now our scuba diving travel is somewhat more restricted than we’re used to, meaning many of our Girls that Scuba members are starting to explore the option of local diving. Local scuba diving …

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has forced the diving industry to take an unexpected and extended surface interval. However, with many countries making great progress in containing their respective COVID-19 outbreaks, …

If there’s one type of post you love sharing in our Facebook group, it’s snaps of you looking amazing in your underwater photos. Yet every time we see these posts, they’re …

With scuba diving involving often heavy and sometimes cumbersome equipment, it would be easy to think that it’s not an inclusive sport. However, this misconception is completely wrong. Amongst our …

GTS events are one of our favourite things about this community. Getting to meet so many likeminded divers, making new friends and doing something for a better good. And our …

On your entry-level scuba diving course you will have learned how to dive alongside a buddy, and your instructor will likely have stressed the importance of the buddy system to make your …

With a large proportion of the population becoming ever more eco-conscious (and rightly so), the phrase “reef safe” seems to pop up more and more frequently. Yet we only seem …

With outstanding video and image quality in a BCD-pocket-sized package, GoPro cameras and comparable action camera models are incredibly popular in scuba diving. Although they’re ready to be used underwater …

Over on our Girls that Scuba Facebook group we have started a new series called ‘Safety Sunday” where every other Sunday our resident safety diver and GTS moderator Chloe Strauss creates a …