Tag: Diving & Swimming

ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, Outfitting Q&A

Dinghy choice: RIB or hard dinghy?

QA Dinghies

Paul writes

I’m “right in the middle” on whether I want to take a RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) or hard dinghy to the Bahamas and Caribbean.What do you recommend?

Kathy Parsons and Gwen Hamlin answer.

ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, Outfitting Q&A

Any recommendations on outfitting a boat for scuba diving?

QA Air Aboard

Mizzy asks

I need your advice about outfitting to scuba dive. We plan to dive a lot. Neither of us does a lot of deep dives. I do have a collection of tanks.

What to do? Like all of the outfitting choices we have to make this one will require evaluation of the options.

If you could point …Read more

Take Your Passion Cruising

Gwen took her SCUBA passion cruising

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Actually, it was the other way around: It was my passion that took me cruising.

I became an avid scuba diver while living in New York City. I know it sounds odd, but not only is there some excellent (and very historical) diving in the New York metro area, but the city probably has the world’s best access OUT by air to great diving …Read more