Tuesday, December 7, 2010

SCUBA Diving

SCUBA stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA).
You have two options for scuba diving. Open circuit or Rebreather sets.
For Open circuit system you can use scuba set, diving cylinders containing breathing gas at high pressure.
For Rebreather sets or AKA Closed-circuit breathing system. This will allow you to recycle what you exhaled that will reduce the volume of gas use thus making rebreather lighter compare to open circuit. It was initialy design for covert operations for military but later used for scientific and media divers.
The alternative for the open/close circuit system circuit would be using air compressor on the surface paired w/ umbilical. It could be with diving helmets, full face diving masks or connected to the mouthpiece with a regulator. But there are groups in the Philippines that use air compressor with umbilical only to supply air without mouthpiece! They are called Mananahong. They dive to get tahong or saltwater mussel.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Commercial Diving Schools in the Philippines

If you checked online for Commercial Diving Schools in the Philippines you will come up with thousands of site.
But is there realy commercial diving school here?
What is PADI all about? You might wanna ask.
PADI stands for Professional Association of Diving Instructors.
Check out there website and you will see exciting things.
But its not really for commercial diving, its only for sports, their goal is to give more people a chance to enjoy the underwater world by offering relevant, instructionally-valid scuba diving training to create confident scuba divers who dive regularly.
Its a sport side of diving like snorkling, cave diving, underwater photograhy and the likes.

Commercial Diving is different.
i'll discuss this on my next post.

World record

Dean’s Blue Hole, Bahamas -- During the Vertical Blue 2010 freediving competition new Zealander free diver William Trubridge, 29, dived to 116m below the surface and completed the dive in 4min 9sec - setting the new world record for the Deepest free immersion dive (FIM).