Scuba Diving Blog & Forum
If you cough while scuba diving there’s a risk of inhaling water if your regulator isn’t properly in your mouth, it can cause your regulator to dislodge from your mouth or create mask leaks. Coughing can disrupt your buoyancy control and catch you off guard while underwater and cause you to panic.
In many cases a wetsuit is necessary for scuba diving. A wetsuit provides thermal insulation, which helps to keep your body warm in colder water. Even in relatively warm water, a wetsuit can provide some protection against abrasions and stings from marine life.
If you suffer from sea sickness it’s possible to get seasick on a liveaboard. Whether you get seasick on a liveaboard depends on how badly you suffer from sea sickness, sea conditions on your trip, size and stability of the liveaboard and if you take sea sickness medication or remedies on your trip.
If you don’t have a wetsuit, you should use a rashguard or swim shirt, use boardshorts or swim trunks, use neoprene accessories. or use warm lightweight layering, but above all consider the weather conditions and water temperature.
If you run out of air while scuba diving, you should turn to your dive buddy and use their alternate air source (or octopus air supply), buddy breath and ascend. If your buddy isn’t close enough for buddy breathing, your alternative is an emergency ascent, unless you have a redundant air source.
There are four Philippines liveaboards with sidemount diving, which means that if you prefer to carry your dive tanks at your sides instead of on your back, or use smaller tanks to reduce the weight of your dive equipment, you can do this with these liveaboards.
Freshwater diving vs saltwater diving are different by increased buoyancy in saltwater, colder temperatures in freshwater, tides and currents in seas vs little to none in lakes, and generally better visibility in saltwater. Aquatic life and wreck diving are also more exciting in the sea vs lakes.
For the majority of recreational scuba divers the maximum depth you can dive is 40 metres (130 feet), with the exception of BSAC divers who can dive to 50 metres (164 feet). But how deep you can dive depends on which scuba diving organisation you train with and the level of certification you reach.
The similarities between snorkeling and scuba diving are they both require a mask, snorkel and fins, together with an exposure suit to match the water temperature. Both allow you to enjoy the underwater world and are taught by all major diving organisations.
Non-swimmers cannot scuba dive in The Maldives, as it is a requirement to swim 200 metres (656 feet) to get certified as a scuba diver. You will probably be able to do a try dive in a swimming pool at your resort on “Discover Scuba”, but this will not allow you to dive on the reefs of The Maldives.
You can open your eyes in the ocean, and surprisingly the salt water doesn’t sting, but its very blurry underwater without wearing a mask. But what can happen if you open your eyes in the ocean with sand sediment, the sand can get in your eyes and this can hurt.
There are 35 Maldives liveaboards available for private charter, which means you charter the whole boat to yourself. Scuba dive the Maldives on a luxury dive boat with your own crew and with more flexibility over where you dive.
