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Top 10 Best BCDs

Controlling buoyancy is one of the most important aspects of scuba diving. Your buoyancy control device (BCD) is the main piece of dive equipment that will keep you in control during your dive. That's why it's important to choose the best scuba BCD to suit our personal needs.

Buoyancy control allows us to safely ascend and descend, as well as stay in a streamlined position during our dive, without crashing suddenly to the bottom. BCDs are quite an investment. They come in various shapes and sizes with many different features.

Unsure as to what type of BCD you need? Take a look at our guide to Buying a Scuba Diving BCD.

How do you know which one is right for you? Here at The Scuba Doctor, we've done the hard work for you when it comes to deciding what BCD suits you best. Our selection of the Top 10 Best BCDs available will enable you to move easily underwater with neutral buoyancy and great trim.


Diving and Snorkelling Downloads

Scuba Diving Downloads

The Scuba Doctor is slowly building a collection of important diving and snorkelling related files for download here. If you have something, or are looking for something, you think should be available here, then please contact us via an email to diveshop@scubadoctor.com.au.

Victoria's Dive Site GPS Marks

Port Phillip — The Heads

Western Port

ex HMAS Canberra Dive Site

Melbourne & Victoria Dive Site Information Sheets

Marine Life Identification

See also Taxonomic Toolkit For Marine Life Of Port Phillip Bay.

Marine Park Identification

Parks Victoria Marine Notes, Park Notes, Visitor Guides,
Maps & Management Plans

Bikini Atoll

Dive Kit Checklists

Dive Boat Related

Technical Diving

Scuba Diving and Snorkelling Guidelines

General Diving Information

  • SDFV Codes of Practice 2005 (Adobe PDF | 62.35 KB) — Scuba Divers Federation of Victoria general operating guidelines for recreational scuba diving and related activities.
  • U.S. Navy Diving Manual - Revision 7 (Adobe PDF | 13.59 MB) — The U.S. Navy Diving Manual is a very complete reference on diving based on the extensive research and experience of the U.S. Navy. The manual contains major sections covering rebreathers, no-decompression diving, open-circuit SCUBA, surface-supplied diving, the diving environment, Navy dive procedures, physics, physiology and recompression chamber operation. The U.S. Navy Diving Manual underwent some significant updates with the sixth revision issued in April 2008. One major change is their decompression procedures and the introduction of a revised decompression algorithm and table. Although much of the information is interesting, it may have limited application to your recreational diving. Still, recreational diving has some of its roots in the almost 1000 pages of this document. Best of all, it's available at no charge because it was developed with US taxpayer funds. The file is large, 14 MB, so best to right click on the link and "Save..." it to your hard drive rather than open it in the browser.
  • NOAA Diving Standards and Safety Manual - April 2017 (Adobe PDF | 20.59 MB) — This document represents the minimum safety standards for diving under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as of the approval date of this manual.

UK Nautical Archaeology Society

The NAS has developed a series of recording forms that may help with marine archaeology projects that you are undertaking. These forms can be printed on waterproof paper and mounted on survey boards for use underwater. Completed record forms should kept as part of your project archive.

COVID-19 and Diving

Dive Shop Downloads

 

Tides

Victorian Tide Times for 2022
The tide times can also be referred to as "tide tables, tides, tide predictions or tide charts". The tide predictions in these files represent the times and height of high and low waters.

Other tide publications.

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