Czech Republic-based Divesoft upended the helium analysis market with their patented accoustic-based helium/oxygen analyzer, which they launched in 2013. What are they up to now?
Anyone who’s dived to 30 meters on nitrox (we don’t do air here!) is familiar with what Jacques Cousteau eloquently termed “rapture of the deep”—the result...
Tech diver and doctoral student, Payal Razdan, offers an in-depth review of the options available to women tech divers for answering the call of nature.
Just like skeletal muscles, respiratory muscles have a limited ability to respond to respiratory loads, and when they can’t keep up underwater due to increased gas...
In this first of a four-part series, Global Underwater Explorers’ (GUE) founder and president Jarrod Jablonski explores the historical development of GUE decompression protocols, with a...
Aussie GUE tech and cave diver turned freediver Dean Laffan takes us deep into breath-hold culture at one of the premier freediving camps on the planet....
Will going “keto” i.e. eating a low-carb, high-fat diet, help you lose weight, boost your endurance and most importantly protect you from CNS oxygen toxicity on...
The recent death of 41-year-old technical diver, Sebastian Marczewski, aka “Iron Diver,” during a failed attempted world record scuba dive to 333 m/1093 ft in Lake...
Having ear problems? You’re not alone! According to DAN, eustachian tubes and their associated ear injuries represent the single largest cause of dive injuries bar none....
If you’ve been active in the dive industry over the last two years, and/or bought any of Fourth Element’s uber-divewear, you’ve no doubt heard of Mission...
