Because of our innate biases, itās easy to blame an individual for causing an adverse event, even if that individual made good choices. In fact, according...
Human factors coach Gareth Lock explores and analyses the theory of ābad applesā as it applies to dive training. Are system failures the fault of individual...
Breath-hold diving as a whole, particularly spearfishing, does not have a good safety record due to the large percentage of breath-hold divers who are untrained, but...
Now, just like their triathlete counterparts, freedivers will be able to access their realtime biometric performance data, including heart rate and blood-oxygen saturation, enabling them to...
Decompression sickness (DCS) is a known risk for compressed gas divers, but until recently it wasnāt on the radar for their breath-hold counterparts. However, as a...
The "Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy" summarized it neatly: Donāt Panic! For good reason: taken together panic/anxiety/stress have been ranked as one the top three risk...
Human factors coach Gareth Lock reminds us that we will all do something dumb while diving; itās in our DNA. The trick is to ensure there...
by David Charash DO, CWS, FACEP, FUHM. Header image of Fitness In Diving’s first guest, shipwreck explorer and historian Richie Kohler talking with Charash. Photos courtesy...
The news in 2016 that Poseidon Diving Systems would be incorporating a solid state oxygen sensor in their rebreathers sent a buzz through the rebreather community....
Like the military and commercial diving communities before them, Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) uses standardized breathing mixtures for various depth ranges and for decompression. Here British...
