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How to Raise Heavy Objects Underwater

Lifting underwater One litre (a quart) of water weighs 1 kg (2 pounds). If you can displace this amount of water with 1 L (1 quart) of air underwater, you…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Record Video Underwater

Shooting video Video cameras were miniaturised even before digital still cameras, and for this reason many divers have taken up underwater video-recording. Miniaturisation has meant that submarine housings for video…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Understand Floating and Sinking

Understanding density The Greek mathematician Archimedes discovered in the second century BC that when a body is immersed in a fluid, a force equal to the weight of the fluid…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Snorkel and Be Safe

Snorkeling is something worth trying the next time you are near water that is suitable for swimming. It's the sort of activity that most people discover when they are on…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Stay Safe in Scuba Diving

Staying safe is the first rule of scuba diving. It is more important than anything else. Getting in With all your pre-dive checks completed, it's time to get into the…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Take Pictures Underwater

The days when people took photos underwater that didn't come out are gone. Today, divers descend with tiny digital cameras and take success for granted. Taking pictures underwater The difficulties…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Treat Decompression Illness

Scuba diving is a relatively new sport and, in its early days, had a reputation for being dangerous. Today, the statistics show that scuba diving is not that dangerous. It…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Understand Hazardous Marine Life

Marine animals don't know what to make of divers. If we keep still, they will treat us as part of the scenery. If we breathe out a lot of bubbles,…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Use Big Boat for Diving

Day boats and live-aboard vessels There are some advantages to diving from a larger vessel. As long as the boat fuel tank is full, you can go farther from the…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Use Nitrox in Diving

Breathing air Air is mainly made up of two gases - oxygen at 21 per cent and nitrogen at 78 per cent. Our bodies metabolise some of the oxygen in…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Use Small Boat for Diving

Most divers soon get tired of having to swim out from the shore. Usually, a boat takes the divers to the dive site. If you need to buy one, check…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Use Your Fins Properly in Scuba Diving

Going nowhere? Some divers find that even though they bought the latest high-tech fins, they are not making the progress through the water that they would like. They see others…

Cody Riffel April 14, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Build a Healthy Lifestyle as a Scuba Diver

Diving health Brainpower is more important than brawn when you are diving. Good divers use their brain and equipment rather than their muscles to manoeuvre underwater. They control their buoyancy…

Ralph Crutcher April 13, 2010

Sports & Fitness

How to Breath in Scuba Diving

How long will a tank last? The big question that every new diver asks is: how long will the air in my tank last? The answer depends on how much…

Ralph Crutcher April 13, 2010

Food & Cooking

How to Buy a Wine as a Gift

Gifting success depends not so much on spending a fortune as getting a wine that will suit the people you're buying it for, which is why many are turning to…

Leona Kesler April 12, 2010

Food & Cooking

How to Buy the Right Wine for the In-Laws

Forget Olympic finals or politicians being grilled by an interviewer on live TV, taking a bottle of wine to your in-laws is the definition of having to perform under pressure!…

Leona Kesler April 12, 2010

Food & Cooking

How to Choose a Wine in Bars and Pubs

From swanky specialist vinotheques through glitzy bars to spit-and-sawdust pubs, you can get wine of some description in all of them, but how to avoid the rubbish? Three basic rules…

Leona Kesler April 12, 2010

Food & Cooking

How to Collect Wines

There are two types of wine collector: those who do it for personal enjoyment and those who do it for profit. They're as different in their modus operandi as those…

Leona Kesler April 12, 2010

Food & Cooking

How to Choose Wines Before and After Dinner

There are times before a meal when only a beer, martini or stiff gin and tonic will do. But wine has star performers of its own. Fino sherry, for instance.…

Leona Kesler April 12, 2010