Complete Beginners Guide to Getting into Scuba Diving Deep Dive With Ian 2026-09-29 | Complete Beginners Guide to Getting into Scuba Diving
Whats That Fish: Trumpetfish Deep Dive With Ian 2025-07-18 | Trumpetfish are a relative of pipefish and seahorses that live in coastal reefs. They are carnivorous ambush predators that like to hide among gorgonians, sea grasses, and other soft corals waiting for small fish and invertebrates to venture past them. They are harmless to humans, and are sometimes seen actually shadowing scuba divers as a hunting tactic. -----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
BAIA HVAC short Deep Dive With Ian 2025-07-16 | -----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
Origins of Navy SEALs 2 #scubahistory Deep Dive With Ian 2025-07-13 | -----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
Moment of Zen #scuba #scubadiving #divelife #zen #underwater #underwaterzen Deep Dive With Ian 2025-07-09 | -----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
Origins of the Navy SEALs #scubahistory Deep Dive With Ian 2025-07-06 | -----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
Underwater Demolition Teams: Origins of the Navy SEALs Deep Dive With Ian 2025-07-04 | Today the US Navy SEALs are a force that can operate anywhere on earth, as implied by their name - Sea, Air, and Land. They didn't start out that way though - the SEALs origin was in the Naval Combat Demolition Units of World War Two, tasked with destroying beach obstacles in the first wave of amphibious assaults. Those men became the Underwater Demolition Teams, scouting and preparing invasion beaches in the Pacific and into the Korean War. In 1961 they were the perfect foundation for Arleigh Burke's naval special warfare teams: the SEALs.-----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
Full Face Masks are just better! #scuba #scubadiving #divelife #fullfacemasks #unpopularopinions Deep Dive With Ian 2025-06-29 | -----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
FeatherDuster Deep Dive With Ian 2025-06-24 | What's That Fish? A Featherduster worm! Watch the full video at youtu.be/JP3CqVYbvUw-----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
Tired of Your Scuba Mask? LOOK NO FARTHER! Deep Dive With Ian 2025-06-22 | Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
Traditional vs Full Face Scuba Masks: Why Full Face Wins Deep Dive With Ian 2025-06-20 | Full face masks are seen as (and are) a niche piece of specialized gear, and it's very rare to see them in recreational diving. Today we are looking at why, and why the full face mask offers a significantly better diving experience than a traditional mask and regulator.-----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
BAIA Short #diving #divelife #history #baia #romanempire #juliuscaesar Deep Dive With Ian 2025-06-19 | About 30 kilometers west of Naples, Italy are the remains of the Roman town of Baia. During the time of Julius Caesar, it was home to great villas belonging to Senators and aristocrats, including Caesar himself. But the massive volcanic caldera below it was slowly sinking and over about 400 years, most of the town disappeared beneath the waves.-----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
Equalizing issues? Theres hope! #scuba #scubadiving #equalizing #equalization Deep Dive With Ian 2025-06-15 | When we started diving in 2020 my wife had the *worst* time equalizing. At least 5 minutes to get under 15’ and even then it was barely tolerable. After a year of enduring this nonsense, she was understandably ready to quit.In a last ditch effort, she visited an ENT. Turns out her sinus were entirely blocked after decades of allergies. The doctor literally Dremeled out her sinus passages and after a few months of healing, we did our first test dive. She hit 30’ without a pause.If you’ve given up on diving because of equalization issues, consider seeing an Ear Nose and Throat specialist. You may be pleasantly surprised!-----Deep Dive with Ian is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!
Introvert Problems #featherdusters #scuba #divelife #diving Deep Dive With Ian 2025-06-13 | But seriously, after 8pm I am wrapped like a sausage in a warm snuggly blanket.
Functional Fitness: SCUBA edition! Deep Dive With Ian 2025-06-11 | I work out so I can dive better -----"Deep Dive with Ian" is the SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world!Check out our latest video at youtu.be/B9DH6NfECUE
Destination Bonaire: A Shore Diving Paradise Deep Dive With Ian 2025-06-06 | Bonaire, in the south Caribbean, is an island whose tourist economy is built primarily around diving. This is not a place to go for partying or beach lounging or ritzy hotel resorts - but it is a paradise for divers. With a nearly continuous reef encircling the island and nearly 100 dive sites surveyed and marked, Bonaire offers a fantastic opportunity to practice skills, get certifications, and enjoy a magnificent reef ecosystem.Note that visitors to Bonaire must pay a $75 tax upon entry. Completing this payment in advance will significantly smooth your customs clearance when you arrive:tourismtax.bonairegov.com
Trusting Your Gut: How Not to Die in a Shipwreck Deep Dive With Ian 2025-05-23 | Back in 2022 I had the chance to tour the World War Two battlefields on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. It was a fantastic trip, except for the bit where the group took a boat to Tulagi and it capsized and nearly killed everyone. But I wasn't on board - because I listened to the little voice in my gut that said it wasn't a good idea to get on the boat.There is a tremendous amount of subconscious social pressure to go along with groups, even when your gut says it's not a good idea. Well, the best way to survive a tragedy is to not be there - and that means listening to that little voice.Neal Howard's video on the event:youtube.com/watch?v=e-lsr77i8TY
Nurse sharks in Nassau Deep Dive With Ian 2025-05-12 | See the full video of our shark-feeding dive at Stuart Cove's in Nassau. These nurse sharks were just the warmup...youtu.be/mXFFqMi-W-c
Sharknado! Stuart Coves Shark-Feeding Dive in Nassau Deep Dive With Ian 2025-05-09 | We did Stuart Cove's shark-feeding dive, and it was a fantastic opportunity to see nurse sharks and Caribbean reef sharks up close. Like, REALLY close. If you want to experience the physical presence of sharks in a pretty controlled environment, this is a good way to do it.That said, the experience was not all great. As the only dive service operating in Nassau, Stuart Cove's service suffers. Boats are overcrowded and often behind schedule and the crew is clearly struggling to handle the sheer volume of divers.
Diving the Tears of Allah from James Bond Deep Dive With Ian 2025-04-28 | The last Sean Connery James Bond film "Never Say Never Again" from 1983 was basically a remake of the earlier "Thunderball" plot - villains steal nuclear weapons to blackmail the world. Like Thunderball, the film included a number of underwater scenes. One of these was a set-piece for Bond to have to escape an onslaught of sharks with frickin' radio control units on their fins.The production company found a decrepit trawler that had been confiscated for drug running and sank it off the west side of New Providence Island in the Bahamas. It sits in only about 30 feet of water on a clear sandy site - ideal conditions for filming and a very easy dive. It's located only a few dozen meters from the Avro Vulcan site from Thunderball, and the two can be visited on a single dive today. We dove it with Stuart Cove's, but it you are working with them make sure to specifically request this site. Because the bottom is otherwise barren, they don't always consider it a particularly popular site to visit.
Diving the Tears of Allah from James Bond: Never Say Never Again Deep Dive With Ian 2025-04-25 | The last Sean Connery James Bond film "Never Say Never Again" from 1983 was basically a remake of the earlier "Thunderball" plot - villains steal nuclear weapons to blackmail the world. Like Thunderball, the film included a number of underwater scenes. One of these was a set-piece for Bond to have to escape an onslaught of sharks with frickin' radio control units on their fins.The production company found a decrepit trawler that had been confiscated for drug running and sank it off the west side of New Providence Island in the Bahamas. It sits in only about 30 feet of water on a clear sandy site - ideal conditions for filming and a very easy dive. It's located only a few dozen meters from the Avro Vulcan site from Thunderball, and the two can be visited on a single dive today. We dove it with Stuart Cove's, but it you are working with them make sure to specifically request this site. Because the bottom is otherwise barren, they don't always consider it a particularly popular site to visit.If you enjoyed this, you would also like our video on the Thunderball dive:youtu.be/eDguYgaA5yE
Caisson Disease: How Bridge Building Began Modern Dive Medicine (Teaser) Deep Dive With Ian 2025-04-11 | Did you know that modern dive medicine began with mining and bridge building? It was the use of pressurized caissons to construct bridge piers that gave us our first look at decompression sickness. Projects like the St Louis and Brooklyn Bridges saw hundreds of workers afflicted with DCS - and it is when the name "the bends" was first coined.
Caisson Disease: How Bridge Building Began Modern Dive Medicine Deep Dive With Ian 2025-04-11 | Did you know that modern dive medicine began with mining and bridge building? It was the use of pressurized caissons to construct bridge piers that gave us our first look at decompression sickness. Projects like the St Louis and Brooklyn Bridges saw hundreds of workers afflicted with DCS - and it is when the name "the bends" was first coined.
Bonaires Cadushy Distillery: Rating Their Spirits and Liqueurs Deep Dive With Ian 2025-03-28 | The Cadushy Distillery on Bonaire began by making a liqueur from the local cadushy cactus, and has since expanded. They have a line of six sweet liqueurs, each created to represent the distinct elements of a different island in the Dutch Caribbean. They also have a line of spirits including vodka, rum, "tequila" (made of local agaves, not Blue Agave), and whisky. cadushy.com
Diving the Vulcan Bomber Set from Thunderball (James Bond) Deep Dive With Ian 2025-03-14 | The plot of the James Bond film "Thunderball" from 1965 revolved around the villain hijacking a Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber and ditching it in the ocean off The Bahamas to steal its nuclear bombs. The film had a number of significant underwater scenes, including several around the bomber itself. To film these, a fake bomber shell was made and sunk in about 30 feet of water near Nassau. It remained there after filming was finished and while the aircraft skin is all long gone today, the tubular metal support structure is still there, now acting as an artificial reef.The Vulcan bomber site is a very easy dive, only about 30 feet deep and with generally outstanding visibility. The aircraft structure doesn't look like anything unless you know what it is, though. We dove it with Stuart Cove's, but it you are working with them make sure to specifically request this site. Because the bottom is otherwise barren, they don't always consider it a particularly popular site to visit.If you enjoyed this, you will also like our video on the nearby "Tears of Allah" wreck from the Bond Film "Never Say Never Again":youtu.be/H1b5Du0e4Nk
Inside the Black Box that is a Regulator Deep Dive With Ian 2025-02-28 | For way too many divers, the regulator is just a magic black box that makes air, and should not be disassembled except by a professional. While you should definitely not try to service or repair your own regulator without a complete understanding of what to do, I think you should also understand what's inside it and how it works. So let's take one apart today and see!
Whats That Fish: Feather Duster Worms Deep Dive With Ian 2025-02-14 | Not actually a fish, but for our first episode of WTF (What's That Fish) we are looking at Feather Dusters. These are segmented worms that use a very showy array of frond-like radials to filter food out of the water. Common throughout the Caribbean and Pacific, there are many different subspecies that all share some common forms and structures. We filmed these in the waters off Dominica.
Destination Baia: Diving on Roman Ruins Deep Dive With Ian 2025-01-31 | About 30 minutes west of Naples, Italy are the remains of the Roman town of Baia. Built atop a massive volcanic caldera and opposite the thriving trade hub of Porto Julius, Baia became the Las Vegas of Imperial Rome. It was home to great villas belonging to Senators and aristocrats, and had three massive public bath complexes. But, the caldera below it was slowly sinking. Over about 400 years, most of the town disappeared beneath the waves of the Gulf of Pozzuoli.The villas collapsed, but the foundations and floors remained, hidden beneath sand and gravel. Only in the 1940s did aerial photography reveal their enduring presence, and professional archaeology in the bay began in the 1960s. It continues today, with the area now designated a protected marine archeological park. Despite this, it is accessible to snorkelers and scuba divers with licensed guides. We spent three days diving on six sites, and had a fascinating look at the ruins - and this is our report on the experience!Our diving was coordinated and led by Subaia: subaia.com
Welcome to Deep Dive With Ian! Scuba For Curious People Deep Dive With Ian 2025-01-15 | The SCUBA channel for curious people who want to know more about diving and the underwater world. Here we will explore: - Diving history - Great people and events of the underwater world - Aquatic flora and fauna - more than just names - How SCUBA gear - and other dive gear - works - Places to dive and what is best about them - Much more!Subscribe to follow us here, and also on Instagram @deepdivewithian
