A secure Weight Belt or Weight Harness is a crucial safety item for any diver. It has to be able to be released instantly in any emergency, allowing you to drop your weights. But it also must but be locked enough not to come loose during your normal diving activities.
For scuba diving we like pocketed weight belt solutions like the Apollo Comfo Pocket Weight Belt, They are typically used in combination with a BCD integrated weight system.
For freediving and spearfishing, plus scuba diving, the combination of webbing or rubber Weight Belts and Slotted Weights is typically used. Here's a video from Cressi about setting them up correctly.
Many apnea divers also use a weight vest to transfer some of their diving weight onto their back for an improved transition and better weight distribution.
Get your buoyancy right with these Weightbelt, Weight Harness and Weight Vest options from The Scuba Doctor.
Buying a Dive Computer The Scuba Doctor explains what you should know when buying the best dive computer for you, plus makes some recommendations.
Dive Compass Buying Guide This dive compass buying guide from The Scuba Doctor will help you to select the right underwater compass for your needs.
Buying a Scuba Cylinder The Scuba Doctor explains what you should know when buying the best scuba computer for you, plus makes some recommendations.
Buying an Emergency Air Source A guide to buying your potentially life saving pony cylinder based emergency air source solution by The Scuba Doctor.
Buying Dive Regulators Help for buying the best scuba diving regulator that enables you to breath underwater.
Buying a Scuba Diving BCD The Scuba Doctor provides the information you need when you're looking to buy the best BCD.
Buying a Dive Knife This buying guide will walk you through important dive knife elements so you can pick out the best dive knife for you.
Dive Reel Buying Guide Advice on choosing the best dive reel/spool to suit your needs from The Scuba Doctor.
Dive Bag Buying Guide A guide to choosing the best dive bag for you from The Scuba Doctor.
Watertight Hard Cases Buying Guide This watertight hard cases buying guide wil help you to protect your dive and camera gear from the elements, dive boats, and airlines.
Underwater Noisemaker Buying Guide The Scuba Doctor provides a guide to buying the best underwater signalling noisemakers for scuba diving.
Buying Scuba Diving Hoses The Scuba Doctor provides guidance and advice on selecting and fitting your scuba diving hoses.
Dive Weights Buying Guide A helpful guide to Buying Scuba Diving Weights from The Scuba Doctor dive shop.
Scuba Diving O-Rings The information you need to know when buying scuba diving O-rings.
Scuba Gift Guides The Scuba Doctor has a collection of gift guides to help those buying for the scuba diver, freediver or spearo in their life.
Valentines Day Gifts for Scuba Divers Forget traditional Valentines Day presents and make February 14th a day your love won't forget with one of these romantic gifts for your dive valentine.
Trusted Scuba Advice The Scuba Doctor always provides advice you can trust when purchasing scuba diving equipment.
Scuba Mask Features Masks are your window on the underwater world. The most important factor with scuba masks is that they feel comfortable to wear, that they fit and seal well around your face and that you have good vision through them.
Snorkel Features A good snorel can make you safer on the surface. So learn how to care for and maintain your snorkel.
Scuba Fins For most scuba diving situations adjustable heel fins that require you to wear boots of some description are best.
BCD Features A good quality BCD with the right features will improve your buoyancy control, weight distribution, and comfort in the water.
Regulator Features The basic rule of thumb with selecting a scuba diving regulator is to go for the most expensive you can afford. The more you spend the easier the breathe.
Save a Dive Kit The Scuba Doctor lists what you should have in your save a dive kit.
How to Deploy a SMB The Scuba Doctor describes how to deploy a surface marker buoy effectively.
Scuba Diving Gas Analysis Here we cover gas blends used for scuba diving plus how to analyse them and care for the oxygen sensors used in the analysers.
Goggles vs Masks Do you know that there is a significant difference between a goggle and a mask? This guide by The Scuba Doctor will show you the difference.
Selected Product Range The Scuba Doctor carefully selects the manufacturers we deal with and dive what we sell.
Rebreathers The Scuba Doctor sells, services and repairs KISS Rebreathers.
Holiday and Gift Giving Buying scuba, diving and snorkelling equipment from The Scuba Doctor for someone special takes the guessing out of gift giving.
Scuba Diving Checklist A complete diving checklist ensures a hassle-fee dive. Here is a useful list you can use for you and you dive buddy.
Guided Dives The Scuba Doctor provides advice for divers looking for guided and unguided dives in Melbourne.
Guided Dives With Nudibranchs Come on a Guided Dive with The Scuba Doctor to Blairgowrie Pier where more than a hundred species of Nudibranchs have been seen!
FAQs About Melbourne Diving FAQs asked by Overseas and Interstate visitors looking to go diving in Melbourne.
Litres, Metres and Bar The Scuba Doctor explains how to dive using the metric system of litres, metres and bar for your units of measurement.
Courses The Scuba Doctor can arrange all courses from beginner Open Water to Advanced Technical Tri-mix diver in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Dive Instructors The best scuba diving instructors in Melbourne at The Scuba Doctor.
Discover Local Diving Have an experienced dive professional help you understand a local dive environment so you can better enjoy the dive adventure.
Learn to Dive in Melbourne The Scuba Doctor outlines what you need to know before you enrol in your Open Water scuba diving course in Melbourne.
Technical Diving Learn how to dive deeper, have longer bottom times, dive wrecks or caves with The Scuba Doctor.
Private Lessons Private scuba diving tuition in Melbourne gives you what you need with maximum flexibility.
Refresher Course Let us reintroduce you to the wonders of the underwater world with a Refresher Course in Melbourne.
PADI Courses Learn to dive the PADI way. PADI is the world's leading scuba diving training organisation.
PADI Discover Scuba Diving A quick and easy introduction into what it takes to explore the underwater world.
PADI ReActivate Scuba Refresher Update your dive skills and knowledge with a quick scuba refresher from the PADI Open Water Diver Course before jumping back into the water.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver This course can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. It's titled PADI Advanced Open Water Diver because it advances your diving knowledge and skills.
PADI Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives.
PADI Night Diver Learn how to see what happens underwater after the sun goes down, as day creatures retire and nocturnal critters emerge.
PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. Improve the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver withe the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course.
PADI Deep Diver Explore deeper dive sites with confidence at depths down to 40 metres. Learn to manage your gas supply, go over buddy contact procedures, and buoyancy control.
PADI Wreck Diver Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life.
Course Equipment Diving is an equipment related sport and you'll need the right gear for your course.
Dive Course FAQs The Scuba Doctor answers your frequently asked questions about scuba diving courses.
Scuba Diving Myths The Scuba Doctor debunks some of the scuba diving myths.
Diving Medical You'll need a diving medical from a SPUMS approved doctor before undertaking scuba diving training.
Dive Resources The Scuba Doctor has the dive site details, articles, downloads, links, weather details and much more to help you enjoy diving.
Diving and Coronavirus The Scuba Doctor provides advice for divers and snorkellers in the age of Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Guidance On Coronavirus The Scuba Doctor Provides Wellness and Wellbeing Advice for Divers and Snorkellers On COVID-19
Weather, Tides, Conditions etc. The Scuba Doctor provides links to the important weather information sources for Melbourne, Port Phillip, Western Port and Victorian Coastal Waters.
Dive From Your Own Boat in Melbourne Be your own captain and explore Melbourne waters with these tips for scuba diving by kayak or power vessels.
Boat Diving Safety The Scuba Doctor provides some tips for safe private boat diving in Melbourne.
Boat Diver Safety Briefings Dive boat owners should give a boat safety briefing every time they head out. Divers need to listen to the boat safety briefing.
Love Your Local Diving Some divers might think that scuba diving is a vacation sport, that you can only dive in spots where you have to travel away from home. Lloyd is here to tell you it isn't true with an article on the local diving spots in his very own Melbourne backyard.
How To Catch Crayfish Tips on how to catch a Crayfish/Lobster from The Scuba Doctor.
How to Catch Abalone The Scuba Doctor gives advice on catching Blacklip and Greenlip Abalone.
Channel Deepening The Scuba Doctor explains how the channel deepening has the potential to destroy Port Phillip Bay's unique underwater environment and decimate the dive industry.
Tales From The Deep Peter Fear of The Scuba Doctor was quoted in this article by The Age.
Pre-Season Checklist - Regulators Pre season dive equipment checks from The Scuba Doctor. Advice on getting your diving regulators ready for the next dive season.
Pre-Season Checklist - Everything Else Pre season dive equipment checks from The Scuba Doctor. Advice on getting your diving gear ready for the next dive season.
Service Policy The Scuba Doctor backs their promise of quality service and repairs with a 3 month guarantee.
Scuba Safety Alerts Here we list the important scuba equipment and service related recalls and notices.
Bespoke Scuba Fitting Service One-on-one appointments for a bespoke scuba package selection, configuration and purchase service at The Scuba Doctor
Scuba Cylinder Testing The Scuba Doctor provides annual scuba cylinder testing at direct to the public prices.
Air and Nitrox Fills The Scuba Doctor has great prices on Air, Nitrox and Oxygen fills in Melbourne.
Nitrox Calculator - Requested Mix Use The Scuba Doctor's online Nitrox calculator to determine the price of your requested Nitrox fill starting with an empty cylinder.
Nitrox Calculator - Top Up Mix Use The Scuba Doctor's online Nitrox calculator to determine the price of your top up mix nitrox fill.
Trimix Calculator - Requested Mix Use The Scuba Doctor's online Trimix calculator to determine the price of your requested mix trimix fill starting with an empty cylinder.
Trimix Calculator - Best Mix Use The Scuba Doctor's online Trimix calculator to determine the price of your best mix trimix fill starting with an empty cylinder.
Trimix Calculator - Top Up Mix Use The Scuba Doctor's online Trimix calculator to determine the price of your top up mix trimix fill.
Scuba Equipment Rental Scuba dive gear hire/rental can be expensive but not at The Scuba Doctor dive shop in Melbourne.
Holiday Dive Gear Hire Save money on your next diving holiday, rent your scuba gear before you go.
About Us The Scuba Doctor is much more than a local dive shop based south of Melbourne in Rye.
Meet The Team Meet the passionate dive crew who help make The Scuba Doctor the go-to local dive shop for all Australians.
Why We Are Different These are just some of the things that make The Scuba Doctor unique.
Online and Local The Scuba Doctor is a Local Dive Shop as well as an Online Dive Shop for all Australians.
Everyday Low Prices The Scuba Doctor explains its Everyday Low Prices policy vs Seasonal Sales and Extra Discounts.
Government and Education Orders The Scuba Doctor has been supplying high quality diving, snorkelling and swimming gear to Schools, Universities, and Government Departments right around Australia since 2002.
Specialty Store vs Big Box Store In purchasing diving/snorkelling equipment online, it's a wise shopper who knows and understands the differences between big box and specialty stores for quality and services.
Dive Facilities The Scuba Doctor has great facilities to suit both recreational and technical scuba divers, plus warm and friendly service.
Free Wi-Fi Your visits to The Scuba Doctor now come with complimentary Wi-Fi.
Traditional Owners The Scuba Doctor acknowledges the Boon Wurrung people as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters of the Mornington Peninsula, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
Contact Us How to contact The Scuba Doctor for all your scuba gear and scuba equipment sales and services.
Opening Hours The Scuba Doctor Dive Shop's in-store opening hours change with the seasons.
Visit Our Rye Store Getting to The Scuba Doctor is easy, especially with these helpful directions.
Privacy Policy At The Scuba Doctor we fully respect your rights to privacy.
Legal Notices The Scuba Doctor Internet Legal Disclaimer, Conditions and Copyright.