If you’re new to Scuba diving and snorkeling, you will want to know a bit about the type of kit you may need. You don’t need to buy the kit when you’re training, we can supply everything you will need to start you off in the pool.
Basic snorkel equipment consists of the following:
Mask – to enable to look under water
Snorkel – to enable you to breathe whilst looking under water
Fins – to propel you through the water
Weights – to give you negative buoyancy (help you go down!)
Additional and essential equipment required for SCUBA diving:
Buoyancy Control Device (BCD) or STAB jacket – this enables you to control your buoyancy
Cylinder or bottle – this contains your breathing air, 12ltr or 15ltr
Regulators – these are the bits that you breathe from consisting of a 1st stage (attached to your cylinder), a 2nd stage (the bit you stick in your mouth), a set of gauges (to measure air content and depth) and an octopus (also called alternate air source)
Further equipment required to improve conditions and aid safe and comfortable diving:
Wetsuit – made from neoprene to keep you reasonably warm but wet
Hood – made from neoprene to keep your head warm
Gloves – made from either neoprene or rubber material to keep your hands warm
Drysuit – to keep you dry, usually made from either neoprene or tri-laminate materials
Undersuit – to keep you warm in your drysuit
SMB – (Surface Marker Buoy) is an inflatable blob to tow during your dive – shows everyone where you are
DSMB – (Delayed Surface Marker Buoy) is similar to SMB but is normally deployed at the end of a dive to mark where you will surface
Knife – can be very useful in case of entanglement
Dive computer – to help with working out dive times, depth, decompression stop requirements and a lot of other stuff