Dive Equipment, Gear, and Shop

Hello, and welcome to bcdiveguide.com! We are a website dedicated to the sport that is scuba diving. Scuba is actually an acronym, which stands for self contained underwater breathing apparatus. Like the word itself, there is much more to scuba diving that first meets the eye. In fact, the mystique of the unknown is one of the best things about the sport. We love diving, and so we’ve attempted to put the best information available here for your use. Whether you are interested in dive equipment, diving gear, or dive shops; we’ve got a section for you. And if you want to know about something we don’t have covered, just send us an email, the next time you visit you may find your question in our FAQ section, along with an expert’s response. Thanks for stopping by, and we hope you enjoy your time here.

There are a few pieces of dive equipment that make up the bulk of what you need. These are the essentials, without which you’d look like a fish out of water, if a fish out of water could happen underwater. Today the basic list of dive equipment looks like this:

                • A wetsuit (or dry suit)
                •A pair of fins or flippers
                •An scuba tank
                •An air supply line, which includes regulator valves
                •A mouthpiece
                •A buoyancy vest which can either hold weights or air pockets
               
Each of these items serves a unique purpose, and all of them are vital for a diver to have a successful dive. The wet (or dry) suit ensures that your temperature is stable at a level that won’t induce hypothermia. Your fins add power to your kicks, giving you increased mobility. You won’t win any underwater races, but you won’t be working as hard to get around either. An air tank and supply line give you the air you need to breathe at a pressure that you can handle, they deliver it through your mouthpiece.

Your buoyancy vest is one piece of dive gear that often gets overlooked. The idea of buoyancy is that your volume should displace an amount of water equal to your weight. If you displace less water than your weight, you sink, if you displace more than your weight, you float. That’s the concept behind metal ships, they have huge displacement, so that the thousands of tons they weigh still end up floating. For a diver however, you want a neutral buoyancy, so that you can remain stationary by exerting no effort. This becomes a bit of a challenge, because as you use up the air in your tank, your buoyancy changes. The solution is to weigh yourself a little heavy at the beginning of the dive, which will end up being a little light at the end of the dive.

So where can a diver go to get all this equipment? The best place to go is a dive shop. These are small shops that are normally run by diving enthusiasts, rather than venture capitalists. This means you’ll be able to ask questions about different models, get advice on local hotspots, and even have old equipment looked at to see if it needs to be replaced. The advice you get here will be much higher quality than what you can get at a generalized sporting goods store.

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