Welcome to the Mad Dog Diving website

Diving is a fun and exciting sport that you can enjoy as part of any lifestyle however, it is important to have the right gear to protect you and keep you safe. The Mad Dog Diving team are certified divers and have gear onboard our sailboat/dive boat Mad Dog Voyager to allow us to dive in all but the coldest waters. Our Bare dry suits keeps us warm and keeps us comfortable in the cold waters of Alaska or along the BC coast and our lightweight wetsuits, are particularly suited for the warm tropical waters such as in the tropical waters of Caymans Islands, Belize or Tahiti and combined with our Neptune full face masks with integrated communications are the gear of choice for The Mad Dog Dive team.

Diving photos by The Mad Dogs
Underwater photography is a skill that is much more difficult to master than regular photography, but our choice of the Canon EOS 20D and an Ikelite underwater camera housing help us to achieve the best photos we can.

Photo album: follow this link to view some of our diving photos


About our current Mad Dog Diving & Scuba gear

To make photos under water we use the following camera equipment
Most of the diving photos where taken using our Canon EOS 20D SLR mounted inside of an Ikelite watertight underwater housing (the “watertight” aspect is the important one!). This Ikelite (Not Ikelight) housing is designed specifically for the Canon 20D camera and allows full control of all camera functions. All seals and button accesses are kept waterproof using multiple O-ring seals. An optically clear front lens allows very clear underwater pictures. The Ikelite is a little bulky and clumsy to use, we are very pleased with it as an excellent system for our underwater photography.

Filling our air tanks while traveling on our sailboat/dive boat is a breeze with our MaxAir air
Dive shops are not always close at hand to refill SCUBA tanks when you are exploring cool underwater locations. To allow us to refill our own SCUBA tanks and continue exploring these areas, we have a MaxAir / Honda dive compressor onboard the sailboat. The multi-step filtration system provides for the best quality, cleanest air refills for our SCUBA tanks. No more having to leave exciting dive sites just to have our bottles refilled!

Communications under water
We recently upgraded our dive gear with a pair of Ocean Reef Neptune Space full face mask with integrated GSM DC underwater communications (very handy when one of the Mad Dogs spots a Great White Shark looking for a “Dog treat”!). The Neptune Space mask is a full face mask, meaning it actually covers our entire faces, providing protection from cold waters while allowing us to breath and talk to each normally via the high-tech ultrasonic communications system. We will provide feedback and updates on how the system works once we’ve had a chance to try them out.

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