Scuba Diving Blog

So your interest has been piqued, perhaps by some diving friends, and you’re ready to take the plunge (pun intended!) and learn to scuba dive. You book your course, your learning materials arrive and you begin to read about the amazing aquatic adventures on which you’re […]

If you’ve been out of the water for a while or did your PADI Open Water Course but haven’t been diving since your knowledge and skills are likely to be somewhat rusty. You might even be lacking the confidence to go diving again at all! If the […]

Three tanks, three regulators and half a dozen other pieces of dive equipment are clipped onto your BCD, now try and hover, maintain your depth and swap to your NITROX mix.  This is the Tec 40 course training and it’s GREAT! The additional time, the potential depth […]

You might have dived with whales, filled a logbook or two, or been in some pretty brag-worthy locations. But what separates the novices from the pros isn’t about the coolest animal you’ve seen, the number of dives you’ve racked up or the warmest water you’ve […]

Learning to navigate underwater For someone who relies heavily on Google Maps to get around in day-to-day life, the concept of navigating underwater for the Advanced Open Water Course was nothing short of terrifying. The thought of waving goodbye to the dive master and then relying on […]

When thinking about diving people often have ideas of beaches and dive sites way out in the ocean. Most never consider that just beneath that jetty or pier you’re standing on whilst waiting for the dive boat is a myriad of life, waiting to be […]

One of the most satisfying parts of my job is watching my freedivers develop in confidence and technique and build themselves towards their next goals. Nowhere is this more apparent than during the PADI Advanced Freediver Course. Upon completion of the entry-level program PADI Freediver, many students […]

I started scuba diving almost 5 years ago. Since then, I have become a dive and freediving instructor and love being underwater! I love the feeling of being in a new environment every day! Working in the industry, learning and improving a bit every day, I […]

One of the great things about diving is that there are endless places to see and the skills to learn. Fortunately often these two things work well together. To see that deep shipwreck you need a new set of skills. Tec 45 is one of […]

Master Scuba Diver vs Divemaster: The Two Scuba Diving Certificates Explained For those who love the underwater world, becoming a certified scuba diver is just the beginning. There are two higher-level scuba diving certificates that offer divers more opportunities to explore the depths of the […]

Cave diving is something that most scuba divers read about and awe at but never get to do. So why and how does a diver get into cave diving? The how of cave diving? The CDAA (Cave Diving Association of Australia) is the governing body […]

Learning to dive and doing your open water course can be one of the most life-changing activities you will ever complete. Gaining the ability to float in the water like an astronaut in space and swim along like a deep-sea fish are truly unique experiences. […]

Sam Leeson was an English tourist who also did his AI and OWSI training at Abyss Scuba Diving while working in the shop from 2002. The training and work experiences they both undertook at Abyss helped them both gain employment as a PADI dive instructor all over the world They have […]

What is a CDC? The PADI Career Development Center (CDC) classification is awarded annually to PADI Five Star Instructor Development Centers and Five Star Instructor Development Dive Resorts that dedicate their businesses to professional development beyond regular scuba instructor training and meet the highest requirements for training […]

Transforming lives and challenging people. Instructor Development at ourPADI Career Development Centre! Carl Fallon Platinum PADI Course Director Life inside a PADI Career Development Centre is different than most, as hereis where it all comes full circle. People come to Abyss Scuba Diving withlittle more than a […]

Six months ago when I was an Open Water student I remember watching the instructors at the filling station and thought to myself, Wow that looks so complicated! All those hoses, valves and pressure gauges, just didn’t seem to make any sense. I’d stare and watch with […]

I moved to Australia from Sweden in 2005 to study design in Sydney. One of the goals I had wen I arrived in Sydney was to learn to Scuba dive. I wanted a new hobby to take my mind of the studies, a hobby that […]

My first real experience with diving occurred when I began my Open Water course in a quarry back in the United Kingdom. During the course it blew my mind that they had purposely sunk a few helicopters and a fully stripped passenger jet. This just […]

Nauru  officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, 300 kilometres (186 mi) to the east. Nauru is the world’s smallest island nation, covering […]

At these seminars we have people involved in working day to day in the dive industry discussing what they have found working in the dive industry is like along with the employment opportunities and career paths available within the Dive Industry. The seminar will also explain the […]