All Things Scuba Diving

As with all sports activities, scuba diving comes with its risks. Most of these risks can be avoided if the diver plans his dive properly and keeps to the limits he creates and knows when to pass on a dive due to health problems.  The latest incident report by the British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) shows that the UK experienced a rise in the number of fatalities due to scuba diving. The highest recorded number since 2004. The report states that between October 2017 and September 2018, 251 scuba diving incidents were reported, 19 of which were scuba diving fatalities. The majority of the incidents happened in the UK and the rest happened to BSAC members whilst they were diving abroad.  The report includes data from a number of diving agencies such as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), PADI EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and the Ministry of Defence.  Incidents are categorised into eight different group

The NEWS Minute reports that para athlete, Pooja Agarwal, has completed her first dive in Kerala on November 28. She says that before diving in Kerala she tried to dive a number of times but “no group agreed to do it with persons with physical disabilities.”  Pooja Agarwal started shooting professionally a few years after losing both her legs and her arm in a train accident in 2012. However, it was not until she went to Kerala for the National Shooting Championship Competition that she made her scuba diving dream a reality.  Agarwal said that she loved the dive and that she had been meaning to do it for a long time but no group had agreed due to her physical disabilities. However, Bond Safari considered her disability and limitations and gave her the help and support she needed to be able to scuba dive. Agarwal said that her 25-minute diving experience was “indescribable”.   Bond Safari is a Kovalam-based scuba diving group who had helped another para athle