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Halloween Underwater Disco Party Forget the haunted house. The best Halloween party of the year is happening underwater, and the guest list is wild. There's a disco ball, a costume contest, a guest of honor, and an after-party where somebody slee.. Read More

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• scubadiving
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Today, October 8, is World Octopus Day. Nobody is quite sure who started it. It isn't an official holiday, and its origins are murky. We're celebrating anyway, because octopuses are one of the best reasons we know to get in the water. Three H.. Read More

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• DAN

"Do I really need dive insurance?" comes up a lot, especially from newer divers planning their first trip. Short answer: probably, and it's cheaper than most people expect. Here's what it actually covers. The gap it fills Most regul.. Read More

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This is usually one of the first questions people ask before they book a Discover Scuba session, and it's a fair one. You're breathing underwater from a tank. It should feel like a reasonable thing to check before you commit. What the Numbers.. Read More

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• colorado diving

If you learned to dive somewhere warm, you probably never had to think about this. In Colorado, it's one of the first gear questions you'll face, and it's easy to get wrong in both directions. Buy too little and you cut every dive short. .. Read More

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This question stops more people from trying scuba than almost anything else. They picture themselves needing to swim laps like a competitive swimmer, decide they can't, and never book that first pool session. Here's the actual answer. The Sho.. Read More

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• scuba diving colorado

Most scuba gear works the same no matter where you dive. A handful of decisions change once you're training in Colorado's cold reservoirs at altitude instead of a warm reef, and those are the decisions worth getting right before you spend mon.. Read More

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Most divers put off Rescue Diver longer than they should. It sounds like a course for people who want to be the hero, or for divers heading toward a professional path like Divemaster. Neither of those is really the point. Rescue Diver is the course t.. Read More

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• colorado
• cold water

New divers training in Colorado usually assume the cold is going to wreck their gear somehow. It's a fair worry. Our water sits well below what most certification agencies consider "warm," and altitude adds its own wrinkle. But the fail.. Read More

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Short answer: yes. Longer answer: it depends how much cold you're willing to deal with, and whether you're willing to add a specialty certification to your card. Most Denver-area divers wind down their local diving by October and pick it back.. Read More