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This Weekends Dive | ScubaShea.com

Posted by Scuba Butch on May 9, 2013 in Advanced Open Water, Deco Diving, Decompression Diving, Divemaster, Instructor Development Classes, Master Scuba Diver, Master Scuba Diver Trainer, Nitrox Diver, Scuba Diving Chicago, Scuba Lessons, Scuba Lessons Chicago, ScubaShea.com, Specialty Instructor, Technical Diving

This weekend we will be getting the gear together and taking a dive into the local waters here in the Chicago and Northwest Indiana area. This weekend will find LeeAnn looking for a new certification and myself being a dive master again. I always have fun as a dive master. What are we doing this weekend?...

Are you Qualified to Teach | ScubaShea.com

Posted by Scuba Butch on May 3, 2013 in Advanced Open Water, CPR Classes, Divemaster, EFR Instructor, IDC Staff Insructor, Instructor Development Classes, Master Scuba Diver, Master Scuba Diver Trainer, Nitrox Diver, Pool scuba Diving, Quarry Diving, Rescue Diver, Scuba Diving, Scuba Diving Chicago, Scuba Lessons, Scuba Lessons Chicago, ScubaShea.com, Specialty Instructor, Technical Diving, Try Scuba Diving

Talking with one of my good friends the other day and they were making the remark that a potential student turned them down because he was not part of a shop and wasn’t qualified to teach them. This concept has festered with me a bit and then when I was reading an article in Crain’s, about social media...

Scuba Lessons In Chicago Are Underway

Posted by Scuba Butch on Apr 1, 2013 in Master Scuba Diver, Nitrox Diver, Quarry Diving, Rescue Diver, Scuba Diving, Scuba Diving Chicago, Scuba Lessons, Scuba Lessons Chicago, Scuba Review, Specialty Instructor, Technical Diving

Spring is hitting Chicago in a weird way this year. Snow in March is a little crazy if you ask me. Then temperatures reaching as high as 60 degrees. Only in Chicago you will have such a swing. That does not stop scuba divers from hitting the water in the Midwest. Scuba lessons, diving, will be in...

A Weighty Matter

Posted by Scuba Butch on Mar 7, 2013 in Advanced Open Water, Instructor Development Classes, Master Scuba Diver, Nitrox Diver, Scuba Diving, Scuba Lessons, Scuba Review, Specialty Instructor, Technical Diving

The average person probably does not think about the weight of water. That average person is not like you and hold that coveted scuba diving certification. Have that understanding that water plays a critical role in what happens to our body while diving. Sure, we learned that a cubic foot of freshwater...

Who is this Archimedes Guy and what does he mean to Me?

Posted by Scuba Butch on Mar 6, 2013 in Divemaster, IDC Staff Insructor, Instructor Development Classes, Master Scuba Diver, Nitrox Diver, Scuba Diving, Scuba Lessons, Scuba Review, Specialty Instructor, Technical Diving

Do you happen to remember this statement; “An object wholly or partially immersed in liquid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object” That is Archimedes Principle; it is also one of the more important principles in diving. As scuba divers here in the Northwest...

Dalton’s Law

Posted by Scuba Butch on Mar 5, 2013 in Advanced Open Water, Divemaster, IDC Staff Insructor, Instructor Development Classes, Master Scuba Diver, Master Scuba Diver Trainer, Nitrox Diver, Quarry Diving, Scuba Diving, Scuba Lessons, Scuba Review, Specialty Instructor, Technical Diving

Most people or scuba divers do not know who or what Dalton’s Law is. Those that have gone through some technical diving or military training, you have heard of this law. What it states is that the pressure of a gas is made up of of the partial pressures of the gases contained within. It will also go...