The most important thing which would strike while planning for scuba diving is that what constitutes minimum equipment or the diving tools which recreational divers must have and should use on each dive? To some extent, it will be the factor of environment and also purpose of dive.

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Moreover the Divers in the cold water need more thermal protection as compared to the divers in the warm water. Divers who are usually engaged in the activities, like underwater photography and night diving, deep diving, wreck or ice or the cavern diving, needs extra specialized diving tools that may not be required by the sight-seeing divers in the open or shallow water.