Tag: SCUBA

#47 – Diving In: Preparations & Gear

There are two basic reasons cruisers jump over the side: because they want to or because they have to.

The want-to department consists of snorkeling and scuba diving and hunting for seafood to spear or collect, but also cooling down, swimming a lap around the boat for exercise, or taking a salt-water bath.

The have-to department, however, [...]

#46 – Water, Water Everywhere

It’s an inescapable fact of cruising: we live surrounded by water.

Often deep water.

A landlubber might assume that everyone who chooses the cruising lifestyle has a natural affinity for water. But this is not automatically so.

#45 – Tools in your Toolbox

A philosophy I picked up twenty years ago from a significant mentor has guided the way I’ve approached most everything since. I call it my Toolbox Theory.

At issue at the time was taking my scuba instructor’s certification. An expensive, challenging, week-long course with a major practical test at the end, it was all daunting in [...]