Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
The PADI Enriched Air Nitrox course with Dive With Frank teaches you how to extend no-decompression limits, shorten surface intervals, and dive smarter. Knowledge-based, practical, and focused on real-world dive planning.
Category: Classes
Digital Underwater Photographer
You have taken photos underwater before. Some of them were pretty good. Some of them were blue. Very blue. Maybe there was a fish-shaped blur in there somewhere if we are being generous. The...
Deep Diver
There are good reasons to go deeper. Maybe there is a wreck sitting below 100 feet. Maybe the interesting part of a wall is farther down. Maybe you are getting into offshore diving where...
Rescue Diver
Who should take this course? If you ask divers what their most memorable class was, a lot of them will say Rescue Diver. Not because it was easy, but because it mattered. This course...
Open Water
Who should take this course? If you’ve ever looked at the water and thought, “Yeah… I want to be down there,” this is where it starts. The PADI Open Water Diver course is your...
DWF Spends The Weekend Kicking Zombie Butt
Any Zombie Apocalypse Dive You Can Limp Away From Is A Good Dive! This weekend DWF held The Original PADI Zombie Apocalypse Diver specialty course. We spent our day saving humanity, overcoming problems, participating...
Advanced Open Water
Exploration, Excitement, Experiences That’s what the Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. You don’t need to be “advanced” to take this course. It’s designed to advance your diving, and you can start...
What Happens When You Step On A Stone Fish
This handsome lad is the Stonefish, one of the nastiest things you could ever possibly have the bad luck to step on. I first heard about the Stonefish when I was taking the DAN...
DWF Spends A Weekend In The DM Seat Again
DWF spent this weekend assisting Columbia Scuba team member and fellow MSDT Serif with an Open Water class at Hyde’s Quarry up in Westminster, MD. Flanked by our awesome up-and-coming DMiT Dwayne, we kept...
DWF’s SCUBA weekend by the numbers
8 Dives 2 Days 3 Students 1 Great Weekend! DWF went up to Dutch Springs this weekend to finish up some classes and get in some fun dives as well! If you live in...
DWF Takes A Weekend Off From Diving
Another part of being part of the Dive Team is public education. #volunteer DWF just finished up a morning of First Aid and Water Safety education for the local Cub Scouts at the Fifth...
DWF dodges the rain as summer heats up
DiveWithFrank had another awesome weekend of summer diving. Hyde’s Quarry has really warmed up. Surface temperatures were 76 degrees, while the temperature at 25 feet was still a balmy 53 degrees. Congratulation to Columbia...
Advanced Underwater Sign Language Course
I just got back another session of my Advanced Underwater Sign Language course (as a student, not an instructor) this evening. Chuck Thompson, a fellow PADI MSDT at Columbia Scuba wrote this PADI Distinctive...
Another DWF Weekend In the books
Who ordered a weekend with clear water, a couple of PADI Open Water Certifications, and a side of Peak Performance Buoyancy? Great job everybody!
DWF’s Weekend To Do List
DiveWithFrank’s weekend checklist included — Certifying three brand new PADI Dry Suit Divers! Congratulations to all! Why just dive….when you can Dive With Frank? 🙂
Nitrox Diving For Beginners (via Scuba Diver Life)
Hey Kids, So you wanna hear about Nitrox, but would you like the 30 second elevator speech about it? I could re-invent the wheel here, but ScubaDiverLife has a nice little article on it...
