Deep Influence: Learning Life Lessons from Diving Legends
Mentors are crucial in modelling humility, vital in an activity where the stakes can be high and overconfidence can be deadly.
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TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
An on-going dialog around the science of extended range diving featuring a variety of provocative and often debated topics in the world of Technical and Extended Range Diving.
Closed Circuit Rebreathers and Ferraris
Without question Rebreathers represent the ultimate in diving. This post illustrates in simple terms why CCR diving is now the standard.
Ability - Are you for real?
Be realistic about your abilities and ask yourself - “how much experience do I really have?”. I bet it is not as much as your think.
Getting Ahead In Overhead Environments
For many, the bowels of wrecks and caves is a foreboding environment that conjures feelings of claustrophobia, darkness and nocuous fates.
Nitrox: An Endangered Technology
Has the Canadian diving community lost faith in the merits of oxygen enriched mediums and if so, what has caused this paradigm shift?
When Two is None - True Decompression Redundancy
There is an old adage among engineers who design safety systems for space exploration, it goes like this; 'Three is one and two is none'.
The Dive Industry - Is it Working?
When PADI standardized training in 1966 they opened the floodgates and the industry grew wildly. Does the business model still work today?
Unlocking the Depths: Technical Diving Drives Scientific Discovery
Technical diving technology unlocked restraints around effective research and drove opportunities for discovery during six gill shark study
Armchair Tekkie - The True Value of Technical Dive Training
Those who avoid the training necessary to dive to extended ranges, in caves, with mixed gases or deco are known as ‘Armchair Tekkies'.
For the Record - Don't Forget the Canadians
Gradually we are beginning to excel beyond what was once thought impossible in diving but it has come only after we revisited our history.
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