Bro, you don't have to have a matching brand Octo why you leading people astray? I run a Scubapro Mk25 Evo S600, and I use an aqualung Octo and it's great all day. Bro.
A proper knife is a must, none of those stupid folding knives, you want a big ass knife that is easily accessible. Also, if your hands are a bit cold getting to the blade on a folding knife is not an easy task, you could also easily drop it.
I am a 13 year old about to go for my Open Water Diver... While beginning to start diving, is it better to rent, or straight up buy all the equipment? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
First thing before anything is to work out the cost. For many people all those togs and electronic gear being pushed costs a bomb . It's amazing how people 40 years ago managed without all this electronics and just had a decent divers watch.
all you need to buy is mask,snorkel and fins, you cant rent everything else, and if its for you then you can buy your gear all at once or acquire it as you go, BCD, REG,GAUGES etc as it is expensive for most people , it is cheaper if you buy it in a package deal many dive shops offer
Not to nitpick, but how is this "gear for beginners"? Don't all divers, regardless of skill level, need regulators, masks, fins, etc? :) I think what beginner divers need more than anything is to understand their own diving ambitions. Do they plan to dive only occasionally in tropical island destinations? Will they spend their time in cold quarries? Do they plan to do any spearfishing or perhaps underwater photography will interest them? For example, for someone who will do most of their diving in the Caribbean, the focus should be on lightweight, easily packable gear they won't mind lugging with them. They don't need a BC with a ton of lift, but rather one that won't take up a ton of room in a bag and has lightweight material construction. The Hydros Pro you show in the video is probably overkill for this type of diver. Yes, it's an absolutely fantastic product, but this diver would be well kitted with something like the Aqualung Zuma at less than half the cost of the Hydros Pro. Finally, I think the best advice one can give to a new diver is that there is no such thing as "one size fits all" when it comes to gear. No single BCD is going to match every diver's needs. No single exposure suit is going to work for all situations. Figure out what you want to do, and purchase the gear appropriate for that activity.
What the video does is point out that a diver needs a mask, snorkel, fins, exposure protection, regulator (1st stage, second stage and octopus), computer, BCD. Even the most recently minted diver knows this. After all, they just completed a course where they were introduced to all of this stuff. My original comment is a suggestion on how to better help a beginner diver with his or her gear choices. For example, if a diver is going to spend the majority of his or her time in cold water, then a drysuit is by far a better choice for exposure protection than any wetsuit. That diver will also need to purchase some undergarments, a hood, gloves and potentially boots. Furthermore, that diver will need fins that have a pocket big enough to surround those boots. Obviously, they can't go into that kind of detail in a short video like this, and I wouldn't expect them to. I guess what I'm getting at is this video is pretty sparse in providing useful information to a new diver looking into purchasing gear. It shows gear every diver already knows that he or she will need to purchase, but it doesn't offer much insight, or rather, the insight it does offer is extremely limited as in, "if you're diving warm water, get a shorty."
This video isn’t saying that beginners and pros use different gear, it’s telling what gear to use and it’s teaching beginners who don’t know what gear to use
@@alizehfaisal6788 my comments never stated beginners and pros use different gear. My comments made the point that it is rather silly to tell a scuba diver he or she needs a mask, fins, snorkel, etc. Every diver knows that equipment is necessary. What a beginner diver might not know is what type of that equipment they should look to purchase. I'll provide another example. A dive computer is a piece of kit that every diver, regardless of skill level, should own. A beginner diver knows they need a computer, but probably has no clue what features he or she should look for in a computer. Rather than just state, "you need a computer" it would be far more beneficial to state, "a basic computer will be more than adequate for your needs as a beginner diver". The example I used in my first comment of which BCD to choose is going to be far more helpful than just stating, "you need a BCD".
If you are used to diving in cold waters I would suggest a full 7mm suit with gloves, boots, and even hooded-vest, if not I would say go for the dry just do your research as it is a little more complicated.
Completely unrelated, I'm not a fan of scubapro's regulators. They plug the octopus- an ok idea in theory, but when you're in a spot with literally ZERO visibility, and you lose a regulator (it was a training dive so we were reviewing skills.), combined with the plug not coming out, it scared me. Good thing I had such a good divemaster.
What do you think of a cressi air travel ving West for a beginner that plannig to take aow and travel with the equipment? Or is a jacket style better? I have just dived with jacket style but tried out the air travel one yesterday and it fit well since i am quite small
Hiya Rebecca, Cressi are a good diving brand and the Air Travel would be a good BC for you. I much prefer wings to jackets as they're often lighter and give you a better feeling of freedom in the water. Wings hold you in a more natural horizontal position in the water and won't squeeze you when fully inflated so yeah go for the Air Travel and let us know how it is in the water. Safe Diving, Mark
Oh! I bought the air travel yester day and Im so exited to do a dive with in in a couple of weeks. I did a unpacking video before that will be up in a few days. Subscribe so you don´t miss it Mark! =)
Sighs Internally Of course it all depends on how much you are willing to spend. Can't think of all the prices but expect to pay for the quality. After all, your life relies on your equipment.
If you filled up your bcd with enough air to breath in and out of it,you would rocket straight to the surface,at which point you would have major decompression sickness, if you came up from depth. So nah.
probs. Beginner divers can just rent the tank. Gear is expensive and complicated to maintain at the beginning. it would be harder to take care of all of it when you are just starting
It's life support equipment. That said,I just bought a full kit Aqualung HD Pro,regs,comp,3mm full wetsuit,fins,snorkel,mask,and boots for about 1500 USD ,brand new. As far as "Epic Adventure Hobbies" go,my road bike was over 4000 USD. Trips and hotels cost way more than scuba gear. Happy travels!!
As a beginner, learn to snorkel first would be my advice. Many people believe they will scuba without learning to breathe underwater.
Thanks now I can do scuba diving
Since when does your Octi have to be the same brand?
Bro, you don't have to have a matching brand Octo why you leading people astray? I run a Scubapro Mk25 Evo S600, and I use an aqualung Octo and it's great all day. Bro.
You don't need to buy matching regulator and octopus!
My advice, splurge on a good pair of fins. Currents are no joke!
Good advice. What fins would you recommend?
Scubapro's novas are excellent. But if those are too expensive Mares Avanti or simple paddle fins are good choices as well.
I'm thinking to get novas, do you think its too soft?
Your right always respect the ocean
A proper knife is a must, none of those stupid folding knives, you want a big ass knife that is easily accessible. Also, if your hands are a bit cold getting to the blade on a folding knife is not an easy task, you could also easily drop it.
I really like these Diving Equipment, it help us dive easily.
id love to learn but i have a few problems im disabled i use a walking stick as im unstable walking i can swim but can't kick my legs
Depending on where you live Switch theres a program that's called DiveHeart and they take people with disabilities out scuba diving
Where in the UK can you train to be able service scuba equipment?
I like scuba diving very much
I am a 13 year old about to go for my Open Water Diver... While beginning to start diving, is it better to rent, or straight up buy all the equipment? Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Rent and buy when you pass
First thing before anything is to work out the cost.
For many people all those togs and electronic gear being pushed costs a bomb .
It's amazing how people 40 years ago managed without all this electronics and just had a decent divers watch.
all you need to buy is mask,snorkel and fins, you cant rent everything else, and if its for you then you can buy your gear all at once or acquire it as you go, BCD, REG,GAUGES etc as it is expensive for most people , it is cheaper if you buy it in a package deal many dive shops offer
Not to nitpick, but how is this "gear for beginners"? Don't all divers, regardless of skill level, need regulators, masks, fins, etc? :)
I think what beginner divers need more than anything is to understand their own diving ambitions. Do they plan to dive only occasionally in tropical island destinations? Will they spend their time in cold quarries? Do they plan to do any spearfishing or perhaps underwater photography will interest them?
For example, for someone who will do most of their diving in the Caribbean, the focus should be on lightweight, easily packable gear they won't mind lugging with them. They don't need a BC with a ton of lift, but rather one that won't take up a ton of room in a bag and has lightweight material construction. The Hydros Pro you show in the video is probably overkill for this type of diver. Yes, it's an absolutely fantastic product, but this diver would be well kitted with something like the Aqualung Zuma at less than half the cost of the Hydros Pro.
Finally, I think the best advice one can give to a new diver is that there is no such thing as "one size fits all" when it comes to gear. No single BCD is going to match every diver's needs. No single exposure suit is going to work for all situations. Figure out what you want to do, and purchase the gear appropriate for that activity.
Jonny Bravo This video explains scuba gear to beginners, not diversifies is)
What the video does is point out that a diver needs a mask, snorkel, fins, exposure protection, regulator (1st stage, second stage and octopus), computer, BCD. Even the most recently minted diver knows this. After all, they just completed a course where they were introduced to all of this stuff.
My original comment is a suggestion on how to better help a beginner diver with his or her gear choices. For example, if a diver is going to spend the majority of his or her time in cold water, then a drysuit is by far a better choice for exposure protection than any wetsuit. That diver will also need to purchase some undergarments, a hood, gloves and potentially boots. Furthermore, that diver will need fins that have a pocket big enough to surround those boots.
Obviously, they can't go into that kind of detail in a short video like this, and I wouldn't expect them to. I guess what I'm getting at is this video is pretty sparse in providing useful information to a new diver looking into purchasing gear. It shows gear every diver already knows that he or she will need to purchase, but it doesn't offer much insight, or rather, the insight it does offer is extremely limited as in, "if you're diving warm water, get a shorty."
This video isn’t saying that beginners and pros use different gear, it’s telling what gear to use and it’s teaching beginners who don’t know what gear to use
ThatGuy yes exactly
@@alizehfaisal6788 my comments never stated beginners and pros use different gear. My comments made the point that it is rather silly to tell a scuba diver he or she needs a mask, fins, snorkel, etc. Every diver knows that equipment is necessary. What a beginner diver might not know is what type of that equipment they should look to purchase. I'll provide another example. A dive computer is a piece of kit that every diver, regardless of skill level, should own. A beginner diver knows they need a computer, but probably has no clue what features he or she should look for in a computer. Rather than just state, "you need a computer" it would be far more beneficial to state, "a basic computer will be more than adequate for your needs as a beginner diver". The example I used in my first comment of which BCD to choose is going to be far more helpful than just stating, "you need a BCD".
May I use this vid for education purposes?
Is there any kids scuba beginner set?? With air tank??? LEL
Tw1ch You could get the mares for kids set and a dive oxygen tank as their small and refillable
Did you have a shop in Dubai???
What'd be the best wetsuit for water around 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit? Or should I just skip wetsuits and go straight for a drysuit?
If you are used to diving in cold waters I would suggest a full 7mm suit with gloves, boots, and even hooded-vest, if not I would say go for the dry just do your research as it is a little more complicated.
@@robotY0UTUB3 Alright, good to know. Appreciate the help, Nick!
5mm
How much does it all cost
Over all how much money Is that
I live in Finland should i get wetsuit or drysuit
Neither,just jump in the water after sauna!! I'm kidding,of course. Look into dry suit.
Where is the website now???
I need regulators.. please send link of regulators
Why does the regulator an octo have to be from the same brand?
Completely unrelated, I'm not a fan of scubapro's regulators. They plug the octopus- an ok idea in theory, but when you're in a spot with literally ZERO visibility, and you lose a regulator (it was a training dive so we were reviewing skills.), combined with the plug not coming out, it scared me. Good thing I had such a good divemaster.
why do you need the dive computer/watch?
I want to start scuba diving in lakes and then move on to find tugboat wrecks and or plane wrecks
What do you think of a cressi air travel ving West for a beginner that plannig to take aow and travel with the equipment? Or is a jacket style better? I have just dived with jacket style but tried out the air travel one yesterday and it fit well since i am quite small
Hiya Rebecca, Cressi are a good diving brand and the Air Travel would be a good BC for you. I much prefer wings to jackets as they're often lighter and give you a better feeling of freedom in the water.
Wings hold you in a more natural horizontal position in the water and won't squeeze you when fully inflated so yeah go for the Air Travel and let us know how it is in the water.
Safe Diving,
Mark
Oh! I bought the air travel yester day and Im so exited to do a dive with in in a couple of weeks. I did a unpacking video before that will be up in a few days. Subscribe so you don´t miss it Mark! =)
How much dose all that cost
Knife? Tank?
And how much should one expect to pay for a decent set of all this?
Sighs Internally Diving is a very expensive hobby. A good BCD is at least $1000.
Tig 'ol Bitties and the rest?
Sighs Internally Of course it all depends on how much you are willing to spend. Can't think of all the prices but expect to pay for the quality. After all, your life relies on your equipment.
If you have a BCD can you breath underwater without an air tank?
Gabe Golchin try it and see 😂. Let us know how you get on
No. You'll drown.
“Without an air tank” i wish buddy...i wish
If you filled up your bcd with enough air to breath in and out of it,you would rocket straight to the surface,at which point you would have major decompression sickness, if you came up from depth. So nah.
Do only advanced divers use the tanks?
probs. Beginner divers can just rent the tank. Gear is expensive and complicated to maintain at the beginning. it would be harder to take care of all of it when you are just starting
All scuba divers use tanks,the vest is a "buoyancy compensation device" that the tank mounts to. If that was your question,loren H.
Didn't tell me much.
This is the basic thing lah guys, don't forget where you start. You remember lah until you die. Ko pikir ko aquaman 🤣
The mask are the exact first thing to buy
Why don't you tell people how expensive all this equipment is? The only inexpensive thing is the mask, snorkle and fins.
Because you should already know diving isn't a cheap hobby lmao
It's life support equipment. That said,I just bought a full kit Aqualung HD Pro,regs,comp,3mm full wetsuit,fins,snorkel,mask,and boots for about 1500 USD ,brand new. As far as "Epic Adventure Hobbies" go,my road bike was over 4000 USD. Trips and hotels cost way more than scuba gear. Happy travels!!
Tropical or not, just always use a dry suit. Thank me later.
need more subs
I think someone should make a mask that shows all your dive info
That would be neat,but might obstruct vision. Would need read out back up too because masks break kind of a lot.
Background music is annoying!
Go to hgwcd711
I think the best order is:
1. Mask, fins, snorkel
2. Dive computer
3. BCD, regulator package
4. Suit
suit cost 15$ to rent each time.
David Murphy yeah and do you know whos pissed in it? Personal things like regs and suits should be bought at least then you know where they've been
Looks like a lots of staff!😑🐳🐳🐳
I really like these Diving Equipment, it help us dive easily.