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Diving with Glasses or Contact Lenses: Your Real Options
You can't wear glasses under a dive mask — but you have better options. Prescription masks, contact lenses, drop-in lenses and surgery, compared honestly.
Tom Okafor ·
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Wetsuit Care and Repair: Make Your Neoprene Last
Neoprene dies from salt, sun, heat and rough handling — not from diving. A complete guide to rinsing, drying, storing and repairing a wetsuit properly.
Tom Okafor ·
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Cold-Water Dive Gear for Kelp Forests: A Complete Kit List
The complete cold-water kit for kelp forest diving: wetsuit thicknesses, drysuits, hoods, gloves and the small accessories that save a dive.
Tom Okafor ·
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Keeping a Drysuit Dry: Care, Seals and Leak Repair for Cold-Water Divers
A drysuit is the best investment in cold-water diving — if you keep it dry. Complete guide to zip care, seal replacement, leak-hunting and field repairs.
Tom Okafor ·
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The Surface Marker Buoy: Choosing and Using Your SMB
How to choose an SMB or dSMB and deploy it cleanly — the tube that keeps boats off your head and surfaces safe. Sizes, types, reels and kelp-country tips.
Tom Okafor ·
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Drysuit vs Wetsuit for Kelp Diving: An Honest Comparison
Drysuit or wetsuit for cold-water kelp diving? A straight comparison of warmth, buoyancy, cost and upkeep — plus the water temperature where each makes sense.
Tom Okafor ·
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Renting vs Buying Dive Gear: A Sensible Purchase Order
Rent or buy? A diver's honest order of purchase — mask, fins, computer, exposure suit, BCD, regs — with the math on when owning beats renting.
Tom Okafor ·
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Action Cameras Underwater: A Kelp Forest Filming Guide
How to get genuinely good kelp-forest footage from an action camera — the settings, mounts, lights and habits that separate keepers from mush.
Tom Okafor ·