Living a Diver's Life

Image: Pixabay Fred Stratton fred@bubblesornot.com fred@hydrosharks.com We are very grateful for your business. Equally important to us is the friendship and comaraderie that comes with sharing our mutual love of scuba diving. We welcomed many new members to our BoN family in 2019 and reluctantly said goodbye to a few servicemembers whose duties took them elsewhere. We trained together, from Open Water through Instructor including fun Specialties like Cavern, Nitrox, AWARE, Deep, Wreck and Diver Propulsion Vehicle Diver. We traveled throughout Georgia, Alabama, Florida and the Caribbean. These experiences forged strong bonds which blessed us all.  We will close 2019 and open 2020 with our first trip to Asia as we dive in the tropical archipelago of the Philippines (26 December - 04 January). We want you to look good and be properly equipped for all your diving adventures in the new year and beyond. So here are some of Santa's favorite gift ideas to in your dive...

Photo: Pixabay By Fred Stratton Instructor & Repair Technician fred@bubblesornot.com Are you an underwater sports car, sleek and streamlined?    Streamlining our scuba kit helps us to glide through the water (efficient and relaxing) rather than lumbering along using brute strength (inefficient and exhausting). Tucking our scuba tools and accessories into pockets or securing them close to our bodies is necessary to reduce hydrodynamic drag. Reducing our profile minimizes the likelihood of damaging (or losing) our gear or the environment. A dangling light or SPG can get caught in a coral head and snap off branches that took decades to grow.   We explored the history, variety, evolution and functionality of BCs in February.   Now we’ll discuss BCs as a platform for mounting a range of diving accessories in the most hydrodynamically efficient manner possible.  We'll approach each section based on general groupings of dive environments we enc...