Best PLB for Diving – Nautilus, Garmin & More
Do you know what you would do if you got swept away at the surface? It’s a situation you’d hope to never be in, but carrying a PLB when diving …
Scuba Diving Safety
Safety is one of the most important aspects of scuba diving, and there’s always more to learn. Read all about scuba safety in these articles!
Diving With Sharks – Is It Ethical?
Diving with sharks is a thrilling experience that puts scuba divers face-to-face with some of the ocean’s most fascinating creatures. While this might sound like a real-life nightmare to some …
11 Dive Shop Red Flags – How To Stay Safe
When you’re a brand new scuba diver, it’s hard to know what to look out for when choosing a safe dive shop. Experienced divers would know these red flags a …
Save a Dive Kit – How To Build Yours!
Some of the best save a dive kits are built through years of diving mishaps. A mask goes missing, a fin strap snaps, or an o-ring bursts… and a disappointed …
What Is Cave Diving? – Key Things To Know
Cave diving is a highly technical activity. It combines scuba diving with cave exploration (also known as spelunking). Diving in caves offers the chance to explore the last remaining untouched …
Pregnancy in Scuba Diving – help us collect data!
Are you a scuba diver currently pregnant? Have you been pregnant as a scuba diver? We are looking to help women make informed decisions on pregnancy while being a diver …
How can I get my kids scuba certified?
The biggest regret many scuba divers have is not starting soon enough. Which means, for many diving moms, getting their kids certified is simply a no-brainer. After all, according to DEMA, over …
Alternate Air Source Configuration – Which Should You Choose?
When you complete your entry level dive courses and start scuba diving a little more regularly, you soon start to notice that another diver’s alternate air source configuration might be …
Servicing your Scuba Dive Equipment: Why, how and where!
The importance of servicing your scuba equipment When we first start buying our own scuba equipment many of us treat it as our most prized possession, but lots of divers …
What if I Get Seasick When Scuba Diving?
Most divers have been there – you’re heading out on the boat dive you’ve been dreaming of for months, but rough seas catch you off guard. Suddenly you fear you …
Anxiety in scuba diving – How to recognise and help an anxious dive buddy
At Girls that Scuba we talk a lot about anxiety in scuba diving because we think it’s incredibly important to open up the conversation and normalise this experience. Whenever the conversation is …
Scuba Diving Insurance with DiveAssure – What’s Covered?
With lots of us finally travelling to scuba dive again, it’s time to think about one of the often forgotten parts of dive travel planning – insurance. Diving involves some …
How to Deal With a Bad Scuba Diving Experience
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 …
Why Shouldn’t We Touch Marine Life?
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 …
What is a Surface Marker Buoy? – Guide to DSMBs and SMBs
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 …
Scuba Safety: Decompression Sickness
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 …
Safely back to scuba diving after COVID-19
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, …
How to be a good dive buddy – safety and limits
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 …
Why Breathe Off Both Regulators Before A Dive?
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 …
How to stay warm when scuba diving
Whether we’re scuba diving in cold water or warm water, if we don’t take the right steps to preserve our body temperature it’s possible for any of us to feel …
Scuba Safety – Should We Use The Quarter Turn Back?
Over on our Girls that Scuba Facebook group we ran a series called Safety Sunday, where our resident safety diver and GTS moderator Chloe Strauss created a post on a popular safety topic to explain …
Top tips for scuba diving in currents
There’s a reason some of the top scuba diving destinations in the world have stronger currents. Currents can bring the coolest underwater things with them; an abundance of algae may draw in …
Everything you need to know about your Rescue Diver Course
Have you completed your Advanced Open Water, got a decent number of scuba dives under your weight belt and started to feel ready for your next big scuba diving challenge? Then taking …
Can you dive with breast implants?
Here at Girls That Scuba we’re all about empowering women, so this article is NOT about whether you should or shouldn’t get implants, but what the implications might be if you dive …