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Planners, checklists & logs

Eight tools to organise a trip, compare courses, keep equipment records and prepare useful notes.

Open the tools →01 / BEFORE YOU TRAVEL

Weather & dive preparation

Official forecasts, tide information and a worksheet to take to your briefing.

Open the preparation resources →02 / KNOW YOUR EQUIPMENT

Manuals & manufacturer support

Find the correct documents for your model and prepare a useful support enquiry.

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Search places, operators and learning

Search Australian dive sites, dive centres, regions, published guides, courses and definitions in one place. Filter by type to narrow your results.

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Become a Diving Instructor

Prepare for your PADI IDC before the first day

Organise knowledge review, feedback, documents and practical preparation with the Course Director.

Beginner lessons

Pressure and depth

Explain why pressure changes below the surface.

Safety guides

Questions to ask a dive operator

A good booking conversation makes the trip’s demands and support arrangements clear.

Safety guides

Reading weather and swell

A pleasant sky does not establish that a shore entry or boat trip is suitable.

Beginner lessons

Ready to learn scuba? Start with these health and comfort checks

Get your paperwork, health questions and practical support sorted before your first water session.

Safety guides

Rebreathers: a different risk picture

Rebreathers recycle breathing gas and require a different approach to preparation and monitoring.

Safety guides

Recognise stress before it escalates

Preventing overload is more useful than expecting yourself to stay calm through every problem.

Safety guides

Recording an incident and medical handover

Clear observations help responders more than confident guesses about the diagnosis.

Safety guides

Redundancy that actually works

A backup is useful only if it remains available when the primary system fails.

Guides

Regulator Servicing

Who services which brands, what oxygen cleaning involves, and why selling a regulator is not the same as servicing it.

Beginner lessons

Regulators and breathing gas

Explain the broad function of a regulator system.

Guides

Responsible Diving in Australian Marine Parks

A practical code for wildlife distance, anchoring, collecting, photography and local rules across protected Australian waters.

Safety guides

Returning after a break

Return gradually enough to discover rusty skills in a supported setting.

Safety guides

Returning after a diving incident

Returning safely requires understanding what happened and addressing the reasons it could happen again.

Beginner lessons

Saltwater and freshwater

Connect water density with buoyant force.

Dive centres

Sapphire Coast Scuba

Eden · NSW

Dive centres

Scuba Culture

Burwood · VIC

Dive centres

Scuba Haven Port Macquarie

Port Macquarie · NSW

Dive centres

Scuba Warehouse

Clyde · NSW

Beginner lessons

Scuba, snorkelling or freediving: where should you start?

Get to know three ways to explore the water and find the right introduction for you.

Glossary

Second stage

The regulator component from which the diver breathes, supplying gas on inhalation in a demand system.

Beginner lessons

Sharing goals and experience

Make different expectations visible before an outing.

Guides

Shark Diving in Australia

A practical guide to grey nurse sharks, whale sharks, wobbegongs and leopard sharks — including the regions, seasons and encounter styles that differ.

Beginner lessons

Shore access and exits

Identify the practical questions behind a shore dive.

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