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GET STARTED - Why I like to stay warm
We started off with one television presenter learning to dive in the UK through the club system. To keep a balance, here's another TV personality, wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan, who has kept well clear of British waters since learning to dive through the PADI schools system!
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GET STARTED - What do they expect of me?
In the training pool you will need to go through a series of routines to ensure that you're at ease with both the equipment and your own body in an unfamiliar environment. Forewarned is forearmed, so John Liddiard runs through the main skills that have to be learnt
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GET STARTED - What kit do I need?
It's shiny and it twinkles at you in the dive store and whispers "buy me!" But UK diving's best-known gear-tester John Bantin advises caution when it comes to buying diving equipment - buy only the basics to start with, and choose the rest later under advice
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GET STARTED - What should I be scared of?
OK, you've seen Jaws and Deep Blue Sea and you don't fancy ending up as a shark's breakfast. Don't worry, says John Bantin - these and other "fearsome" predators have far greater cause to be scared of you
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GET STARTED - Meet your instructor
What sort of diver do you want to be? How and where do you want to learn? What is a referral, and how do you recognise a good instructor from a bad one? John Liddiard has the answers
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GET STARTED - Join a club or go to school?
Your basic training can be undertaken either through a commercial diving school, as a one-off experience, or with a dive club, with its volunteer trainers and continuing support. John Liddiard weighs up the options
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GET STARTED - The ultimate stress relief
Miranda Krestovnikoff, who presents the popular Channel 4 TV series Wreck Detectives, may have been a water baby but she took her dive training slow and easy. She has some simple advice for all would-be divers: just try it!
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GET STARTED - The big questions
At DIVER Magazine we find that certain questions are regularly posed by non-divers. They are sensible questions and John Bantin has some straight answers to them
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Win a Luxfer pony cylinder
Don't forget to cast your vote in DIVER Magazine's latest Big Question for the chance to win a Luxfer emergency pony cylinder worth £106. This month we are asking: Do you hoard old dive gear? Answer yes or no, and feel free to comment.
Please sir. Can we go diving?
It's back to school for ultra-deep diver Mark Ellyatt, as he takes an unlikely trip to Gozo in the company of 30 young wannabe divers and their minders. No talking at the back...
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From Numpty Diver To MSD In Six Months!
Life in the fast lane more...Netdiver
For some divers, Internet forums can be seriously addictive, reckons Mike Ward. Still, once you've gained diving know-how, it's your duty to share it with others more...Joining the club
Can't wait to start diving in the UK? It's really just a matter of being told exactly what's involved by those in the know, says Mike Ward more...Serial try-diver
Novelist Lynne Reid Banks started diving later in life than most, and for one reason or another hers was not an entirely smooth transition from land to sea, as she explains more...My first dive
We all have to start somewhere. An inland quarry in February could be just the place for that initial plunge - and perhaps Mike Ward's account will ring nostalgic bells for some of you more...Wannabe a tec deep diver ?
Is PADI's venture into teaching "technical" diving a piece of window-dressing to grow its market further, or a serious attempt to come to terms with the demand for deeper, safer deco-stop diving? In his continued quest to earn every diving qualification available, Chris Boardman heads for the Red Sea to find out more...Training on the Thistlegorm
Wannabe a wrexpert? Chris Boardman has been sampling a speciality course aimed at divers who want to feel more at home on sunken ships, and he reckons that the instructor and the location count for everything more...More Links: