RAID’S POSITION ON DRYSUIT DIVING… As a matter of fact, we don’t really have one. We do think drysuits can make the difference between a comfortable dive and a rotten one. And we believe that in plenty of cases, but certainly not every case, diving dry is a better way to dive. But RAID doesn’t presume to have a ‘position’ regarding their use. Just like we don’t recommend students or instructors buy a specific brand. Those are decisions we leave to the folks pulling out their wallets and handing over the cash… or credit card. However, investing in a drysuit is a major investment and we want to help you get your money’s worth. So, we do have a handful of suggestions and tips. If you’re interested in those, read on… The majority of casual divers — the industry’s backbone — take one or two dive trips a year and log 20 to 30 dives in tropical or semi-tropical water. A good quality wetsuit worn ove

WITH THE HELP OF OUR OCTOBER SPECIAL, EASILY DONE Underwater video and photography have been radically changed by the march of technology: the action camera moved the goal posts and made the equipment side of the equation much easier to “get into.” Jeff Goodman’s Action Camera Specialty course focuses on the creative side. CLICK ON JEFF’S BOOK COVER TO GO TO THE RAID ACTION CAMERA COURSE

MAKING THAT PESKY PARTIAL PRESSURE FORMULA WORK FOR YOU Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures states that the total pressure of a mixture of non-reacting gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual component gases. In plain language, this translates into when we mix gases in a container, such as a scuba cylinder, they mix but their proportions don’t change. Liquids and gases behave the same way when we mix them. Twenty percent gin and 80 percent tonic water make a gin and tonic… and one fifth of it is gin and the rest is tonic. For those of us who studied chemistry and remember any of it, Dalton’s Law can be expressed as: PTotal = Pgas 1 + Pgas 2 + Pgas 3 + …  All this is good to know and was a core knowledge nugget in your nitrox class. And John Dalton’s Law remains an important piece of knowledge for a diver to have tucked away, but more important is being wise to how i

There is something about being part of a team that some people just don’t seem to understand. To everyone at RAID, it includes everyone at RAID… past, present, future.

RAID instructors deliver excellent, skills-based training in recreational, technical, and rebreather programs… and our freediving courses maintain that tradition of excellence. For us, the benefits of breath-hold diving are simply too many to ignore. Freediving is a wonderful activity on its own merits but are also a stand-out way to improve scuba and rebreather diving skills and physical preparations. Look Here >>>

STOP PAYING MONEY FOR NOTHING: JOIN RAID It’s the time of year when dive leaders in this industry start thinking about renewal fees. Divemasters, instructors, instructor trainers, in fact all levels of dive pro have been conditioned to accept that it costs money for them to do business with their agency of record. It’s called an Annual Membership Fee, and it usually runs to the equivalent of several hundred US dollars. During the COVID Pandemic, RAID did something that the other agencies labelled “crazy” and a “one-shot deal.” RAID introduced ZERO FEe-Membership. Basically, it works like this. As long as a RAID pro was active and certifying divers, annual membership was waived… it cost ZERO Euros, Dollars, Egyptian Pounds, Pesos… zitch. Critics said the idea was doomed: it would not work and we’d lose our shirts. Yet here we are, several years later, growing and going stronger than ever. Thos