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Dive and Travel Insurance
Dive Rutland has teamed up with DiveAssure and Dive Master Insurance to provide you with travel and / or dive insurance. Why do you need Dive Insurance? Diving is considered a safe activity, however, in the unfortunate event of a...
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  Dehydration and Diving You’ll often hear Dive Rutland staff reminding you to drink water before and after diving. There’s a good reason for this—hydration has a direct impact on both performance and diver safety. Dehydration isn’t just discomfort. In...
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Choosing Surface Marker Buoy (SMB)
Choosing Surface Marker Buoy (SMB) Background to Surface Marker Buoys   A surface marker buoy (SMB), or more correctly a delayed surface marker buoy (dSMB), is what many divers will affectionately know as a balloon or ‘safety sausage’.For recreational divers,...
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Air Planning
Air planning is a key factor when it comes to planning a dive.  Do you just go diving and assume you have enough air for the dive or do you take a minute and plan... we hope it is the...
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Choosing Fins
One of the early decisions in purchasing Dive equipment will be what type of fin should I purchase.... The answer to this question is not as obvious as it first seems...  You need to think about when and how you...
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