• Get an underwater camera. I want my own pictures!
  • Get a dive computer. On our previous trips, the pressure gauge has had an integrated depth gauge, but this wasn’t the case this time. I like to know where I am and what I’m doing, so I didn’t find that acceptable and rented one. Based on the price they charged, I think buying one would pay for itself after just a few trips.
  • Get a good torch. Night dives are fun, and even more so with a comfortable and strong torch. The dive centre actually ran out of torches this time, and the ones they had were not that good. (Four torches for a resort that can house a hundred – I wonder how they thought that would work?) We tried a torch by Underwater Kinetics from their Sunlight range, and it was far better than the no-name option.
  • 12 kg of weight assuming a two-part wetsuit.