Everything you need to know about your Rescue Diver Course
Have you completed your Advanced Open Water, got a decent number of scuba dives under your weight belt and started to feel ready for your next big scuba diving challenge? Then taking …
Scuba Diving Safety
Can you dive with breast implants?
Here at Girls That Scuba we’re all about empowering women, so this article is NOT about whether you should or shouldn’t get implants, but what the implications might be if you dive …
Everything you need to know about your Open Water Scuba Diving Course
Learning to scuba dive will be one of the best things you’ve ever done, but where do you start? What does it take? How much does it cost? We take a …
6 ways to be fit-to-dive with Girls that Scuba
Let’s keep fit to scuba dive!! It’s January. We are all full of too much something at this time of year: turkey and mince pies, gin and wine, or the dreaded …
What is Nitrogen Narcosis?
In his book ‘The Silent World’ Jacques Cousteau coined it ‘the rapture of the deep’. Some refer to it as the Martini Effect, comparing it to drinking one martini for every …
Nervous of starting to scuba dive? Read this
On Girls that Scuba we share our achievements and support successes. We see photos of brand new divers who’ve taken their first swims into the world of diving. Experienced divers who are …
10 reasons to do your Advanced Open Water Course
Congratulations, you’ve completed your Open Water course and are now a certified scuba diver! So what’s next? Many divers choose to continue on to do the Advanced Open Water Course at some …
Learning to Scuba Dive: What to expect in your Open Water Course
Do you want to learn to scuba dive? You’re about to enter the most wonderful world ever! But first you need some training, and that training is called the Open Water Course. …
Girls that Scuba help with your scuba anxieties, panics and concerns
Did you know that divers get anxious sometimes? In fact, something like half of divers experience panic or near-panic at some point in their diving. Half! That is either you or your …
Solo Diving – All You Need to Know About the Self Reliant Course
On a poll in the Girls that Scuba Facebook group about training that people found beneficial, self reliant diving was incredibly popular. So we thought we’d dig deeper and find out …
Can You Scuba Dive While Pregnant?
For many people, finding out that they are going to become a parent is one of life’s most joyous occasions. However, scuba diving while pregnant is not recommended. So for …
5 Things You Should Never Do Right After Scuba Diving
As new divers maybe you know what you SHOULD be doing, but do you know what you SHOULDN’T be doing after diving? In fact, this is not just for new divers, as many …
Fear while scuba diving; is it normal and how you can overcome it
Diving is about having fun! We are all just happy to be in the water and excited about learning to dive. We do not often think about the more difficult …
Everything you ever need to know about ear problems when diving
The ear is an incredibly important organ responsible for our hearing as well as our balance. Scuba divers do have to be careful to take good care of their ears …
How to deal with underwater anxiety
Anxiety in scuba diving, or in every day life, is a psychological state that can cause emotional and physical symptoms which can range from a quickened heartbeat to the paralyzing …
Scuba Diving with Nitrox – A Beginners’ Guide
Ok, so what exactly is it NITROX? What is Enriched Air? Which one is better? If you’ve just started scuba diving you’ve probably heard the word Nitrox thrown around a fair few times now. But …
Decompression sickness in women – are we more at risk?
Decompression illness is a serious subject and one here at Girls that Scuba we talk about often. While every case of DCS is different there are some similarities between women who have …