How current are your rescue skills at your level of diving? Would you be able to rescue a tech diving...
In the early 1990s, when newly named “tech divers” were dying at an alarming rate, the fledgling tech community came together to create a consensus standard...
Deep tunnel boring workers are the modern equivalent of compressed air caisson workers—the poor souls who discovered the bends. Jump to modern day: During a job...
As some tech divers have painfully discovered, there’s an escalating risk of decompression sickness (DCS) with Buhlmann algorithms as dives get progressively deeper and longer. The...
We are one breath away from being a drowning victim on every dive. It's a hard reality that divers need to understand and accept if we...
Text by Chen Qian, aka “Charlie.” Images and video courtesy of the author unless noted. In a little more than a decade, 33-year old Chen Qian,...
An SAS approach to principles, techniques and application by Claudio Gino Ferreri Scuba Diving Operational Risk Management is the first book dedicated to the practical application...
In the immediate aftermath of a diving fatality, law enforcement needs to locate an emergency contact for the accident victim. If that person’s phone is locked,...
Do we learn from accidents as a diving culture and, as a result, take the actions, where needed, to improve divers’ safety? Though we might like...
To err is human. To trimix is divine? Instructor evaluator Guy Shockey examines the importance of learning through one’s mistakes, and most important, being willing to...
