Costa Brava Scuba Diving

While advances in scuba diving equipment design and computerization have lead to ever safer and more reliable equipment, the diving equipment in use to day is remarkably unchanged from that first developed by Frenchmen Jacque Cousteau and Emile Gagnan during World War II.

Scuba diving equipment consists of a number of different elements to overcome the limitations of the human body underwater. In cold water we cannot retain body heat without a specially designed suit; without an air supply we cannot breathe; without a mask we cannot see; without fins our movement through the water is limited. Equipment is also required to control buoyancy and measure depth, to monitor air supply and to time the dive, all variables that can be critical to survival at depth.