{"id":1823,"count":16,"description":"Scuba Diving Skills\r\nRecreational dive skills advice, tips and how to guides.\r\nMy dive skills articles were written to help beginners and improving scuba divers improve their dive knowledge and proficiency.\r\n\r\nEach scuba diving skills article contains invaluable details that are too frequently missed out on in recreational dive classes. Enjoy this diver series!\r\nScuba diving articles topics\r\n\r\n \tScuba weighting\r\n \tScuba trim\r\n \tScuba propulsion\r\n \tScuba\u00a0 buoyancy\r\n \tScuba breath control\r\n \tScuba breathing gasses\r\n \tScuba diving depth limits\r\n \tScuba diving courses\r\n \tScuba diving training\r\n \tScuba diving instructors\r\n \tHow to improve scuba diving\r\n\r\nDisclosure\r\nscubatechphilippines.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program; I may earn commission from qualifying purchases made through affiliate advertising links included in articles on this blog.<\/em>\r\n\r\nI only endorse and recommend products that I have used myself, or know to be highly recommended by expert diving peers. There is no additional cost to you from purchasing through affiliate links on this site.\r\n\r\nAbout the Author\r\n\r\nAndy Davis is a RAID, PADI TecRec, ANDI, BSAC, and SSI-qualified independent technical diving instructor who specializes in teaching advanced sidemount, trimix, and wreck exploration diving courses across South East Asia. Currently residing in \u2018wreck diving heaven\u2019 at Subic Bay, Philippines, he has amassed more than 9000 open-circuit and CCR dives over 27 years of diving across the globe.\r\n\r\nAndy has published many magazine articles on technical diving, has written course materials for dive training agency syllabus, tests, and reviews diving gear for major manufacturers, and consults with the Philippines Underwater Archaeology Society.\r\n\r\nHe is currently writing a series of books to be published on advanced diving topics.\u00a0 Prior to becoming a professional technical diving educator in 2006, Andy was a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force and has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Belize, and Cyprus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","link":"https:\/\/scubatechphilippines.com\/scuba_blog\/category\/scuba_diving_articles\/scuba-diving-skills\/","name":"Dive Skills","slug":"scuba-diving-skills","taxonomy":"category","parent":597,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dive Skills Archives - Andy Davis Sidemount Technical Wreck Diving Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scubatechphilippines.com\/scuba_blog\/scuba_diving_articles\/scuba-diving-skills\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dive Skills Archives - Andy Davis Sidemount Technical Wreck Diving Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scuba Diving Skills Recreational dive skills advice, tips and how to guides. My dive skills articles were written to help beginners and improving scuba divers improve their dive knowledge and proficiency. Each scuba diving skills article contains invaluable details that are too frequently missed out on in recreational dive classes. Enjoy this diver series! Scuba diving articles topics  Scuba weighting  Scuba trim  Scuba propulsion  Scuba\u00a0 buoyancy  Scuba breath control  Scuba breathing gasses  Scuba diving depth limits  Scuba diving courses  Scuba diving training  Scuba diving instructors  How to improve scuba diving Disclosure scubatechphilippines.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program; I may earn commission from qualifying purchases made through affiliate advertising links included in articles on this blog. I only endorse and recommend products that I have used myself, or know to be highly recommended by expert diving peers. There is no additional cost to you from purchasing through affiliate links on this site. 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