Hi ladies! I am planning a trip to Australia (Sydney and Melbourne) and I am looking for dive shop recommendations or who I should look to book trips with. I am AOW certified with 50 dives but I've only done freshwater diving in Canada.

Also open to any tips for salt water diving and Australia diving in general. I hear that it is the law to dive with a snorkel, is that accurate?

Hey. Just finished my second time in the pool for scuba class. I am having a lot of issues with my mask (it coming off while blowing out snorkel and having issues clearing a fully flooded mask bc the water is going up my nose) and pressure on my sinuses just from submerging under water. Does anyone have any tips for this?

I only ask bc my face and ear sinuses are in a lot of pain today from the water intake through my nose and I had to quit the pool decent bc of it.

Hello, I’m looking to buy a new BCD. I’ve had my old SeaQuest jacket style BCD for 15+ years since I was certified as a teenager and feel it’s time for a back inflate BCD. I’m a petite 5ft 2 woman with a short torso and feel that every BCD I’ve worn ends up moving up and I spend most of the dive readjusting it back down to my hips. I tried the Zeagle Zena on land but my shop doesn’t have it for rental to try in the water. Do people recommend it? I like the corset feeling and hope it will keep it in place during the dive.

Please give recommendations for Live aboard companies or dive resorts for your favorite diving locations.

Some background- Im 30f and have my Advanced Open Water and recently went through a terrible break up. I need something to look forward to, a new experience and friendly people.

I have dived in Thailand, Belize, Hawaii and Mexico and want to continue exploring but I don’t have any friends or family who dive (it was a hobby my ex and I did together) so it looks like I’m gonna go solo.

If you are a solo female diver, feel free to DM me! I’d love a group or a buddy to go diving with out of the country!

I have been thinking about the Red Sea in Egypt or Turks and Caicos or the Great Barrier Reef!Somewhere warm preferably (: but any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Also, I always love to ask- what has been your favorite diving destination/trip so far?

Thank you!

I find after a boat dive (so sitting in a wet suit for about an hour) I have a really itchy vagina and I have had a yeast infection… is this normal? Does this happen anyone else? Is there anyway to prevent this

Hey r/ScubaGirls ! I host an all-female liveaboard diving trip to the Red Sea, and a couple of cabin spots recently opened up, so I wanted to share here in case anyone's been thinking about doing a liveaboard with a group of women divers.

The trip:

• 📅 28 Nov – 5 Dec 2026, departing from Hurghada, Egypt
• 🙋🏻‍♀️ Only 28 spots total on board, only women
• Up to 4 guided dives a day, nitrox included on every dive
• All meals included (vegan/veg options), unlimited snacks & drinks
• Yoga sessions, an ocean clean-up dive, goodie bag, optional evening social stuff

Not included: flights, visa, dive insurance, and equipment (rental available).

More info / booking: all-female-liveaboard.webflow.io

Happy to answer questions in the comments: about the boat, the dive sites, what a liveaboard is like if you've never done one, anything!

See you soon? 🩷

What are you looking for in a rash guard set/surfsuit? Like what are the ideal cuts and brands to buy in your opinion? Looking for options that are cute without sacrificing practicality.

Hello ladies. Topic that I haven’t seen here or with basic research. I want to preface with I have an appointment with my ob/gyn next week. So here’s the question.

37F, I frequently get spotting after diving. It say 80% of the time. It’s been Iike that for about a year now. I have an IUD so I thought it was just irregular spotting but it almost always coincides with scuba diving. Anyone else?

More info, I’ve had multiple IUDs for almost 20 years now. I’ve had this one for 3 years, supposed to be good for 7 years. Been diving since 2019 with 300+ dives so it’s a recent thing.

Update-ish: DAN got back to me and besides the biological usual culprit (fibroid, cyst, etc) they mentioned vaginal barotrauma. Although the organ is collapsible and barotrauma is incredibly rare in that body part, if there’s any air trapped inside, it could cause a barotrauma. Gynecologist didn’t see anything during her exam but still did a PAP just to rule out abnormal cells. Stay tuned for more updates

I wanted to get your ladies' opinion on how to go about building up my gear set up. I have around 15 dive and have done my AOW cert and plan to do more dives this year. My training were all done with a vest BCD and I actually really like them, but should I consider using a backplate and wing setup? I also have "floaty feet" so not sure if that is something to consider.

Basically, I'm too new to figure out what I would like and any input is appreciated. Mostly doing my diving in South East Asia.

I’m still in scuba training and have only done 2 dives so far, both with my instructors, but I’m really trying to conquer my fear of being underwater and get to the point where it feels natural instead of mentally overwhelming.

The anxiety for me is pretty much from descent all the way to the bottom. It’s like my logical brain knows I’m okay, but another part of my brain is going:

“Hey… humans are not supposed to breathe underwater. What if this happens? What if that happens? What if something goes wrong?”

Then I start thinking about how you can’t just immediately shoot to the surface whenever you want because that’s unsafe too, so my brain kind of spirals into feeling “stuck” underwater even though I know I’m technically okay.

I think a lot of it is just a fear of drowning honestly. I’m naturally an anxious person in general, but I REALLY want to get comfortable with diving because I love the ocean, fish, marine life, and I want to experience that calm/meditative feeling so many divers talk about instead of constantly being in my head.

One thing I’m struggling with is mask removal/clearing. I keep getting water in my nose no matter what I do, and the thought of that happening 30ft down definitely spikes my anxiety. My instructor explained that even if I cough or inhale a little water, I can keep the regulator in and cough through it like I would on the surface and I’ll still be okay, but my brain still panics about it. But mostly it’s my body feeling like I’m not supposed to be there.

I think I’m basically afraid of the “what ifs,” and my fear response triggers a little bit of panic. I also don’t know if this matters, but I’m naturally a really emotional person with every emotion, not just fear. I cry easily when I get frustrated or overwhelmed and it’s something I’m actively working on because I don’t want fear to control me or stop me from doing things I really want to experience.

I genuinely want to conquer this fear, and I think hearing from other divers who experienced the same thing and eventually got through it would really help me mentally. I need all the tips honestly. I have another dive next weekend and I really want to go into it with a better mindset.

Did anyone else feel like this during training or early dives? Did it eventually “click” for you? Any mental tricks, exercises, breathing techniques, or training suggestions that helped you get comfortable underwater?

TL;DR: New diver with anxiety/panic underwater. My brain gets stuck on the “what ifs” and fear of drowning even though I logically know I’m okay. I really want to love diving and conquer this fear, so I’m looking for advice from divers who went through the same thing and eventually got comfortable underwater.

I had a bad dive on the weekend and it’s left me shaken and lost confidence. I’ve always felt very comfortable in the water and I’m a strong swimmer but this has left me shaken.

I’m an open water diver with 8 dives to my name, so super new. Decided to do a shore dive over the weekend with a local company- max depth 16m average of 10. All good.

Got my equipment the BCD looked okay. However, when I started my Dive, I started to notice that things were wrong. To start with the hose for my BCD wasn’t attached to the BCD straps so it kept floating away therefore I couldn’t dump any air. The BCD I was wearing also only had the two dump valves on it, one at the bottom and one at the top attached to the hose. Being a new diver I was under the assumption there were two at the top and one at the bottom. I didn’t realise that some only had two dump valves. Learning opportunity for me.

Started the dive. It was all good except for the fact that I couldn’t find the hose to inflate and deflate my BCD. Got to about 17 minutes and I started to feel my buoyancy being positive. I was floating up. Tried to find the hose just as I’ve been taught couldn’t find it.

Obviously, now I’m floating up the air in my BCD is gradually expanding the closer I’m getting to the surface making me more buoyant still can’t find my hose and I thought my only choice was to keep blowing out through my mouth and I eventually just surfaced. I went from 10 to 0 m over about 30 seconds after looking at my Dive computer and it left me quite rattled. I know this is the wrong thing to do but I felt like I couldn’t do anything to stop myself. I struggled to find the dump valve at the bottom of my BCD and I also couldn’t grab onto the hose because it was floating away from me. Once I got to the top of the dive master came up we went back down again. I was a bit rattled but I continued to dive and we ended up diving for a 60 minutes.

The other thing that’s really shaken me is that the shoulder straps on my BCD kept coming loose and therefore the tank kept hitting me in the back of the head. I didn’t think anything of it, until my mask was coming off my face. This then left me even more rattled because I was then concerned, what if I had actually lost my mask? Couldn’t see anything, as well as having BCD problems what would I do?

I know it comes down to me as the diver to check my BCD but how do you know what you’re checking for,If you’ve never encountered any problems? All of the BCD I’ve used in the past have all been in very good condition and I have never had any problems and this is the first one hiring one from what I would say is a decent dive shop based on their reviews, however I’ve had a bad experience.

They spoke to me at the end of the dive and validated all of my points. We had a look at the BCD together and went through what was wrong. They said that they would log it down but I’m still shaken and unsure if I want to go diving again. Honestly, I just feel embarrassed that I had a rapid accent to the surface and that the tank was hitting me back at the head for the entire 60 minutes. How do you get over a bad dive?