Dive industry ‘fixer’ Rosemary “Roz” Lunn discusses the Recreational Scuba Training Council's (RSTC) new consensus diver medical form and the bad things that can happen if...
How much do you fart during decompression? How about your teammates? It turns out that those may be critical questions if you’re decompressing from a hydrogen...
Isobaric counterdiffusion is one of those geeky, esoteric subjects that some tech programs deem of minor relevance, while others regard it as a distinct operational concern....
Forget rebreathers. With the pandemic still spreading, ventilators have arguably become one of the most essential pieces of life-support kit on the planet. We asked anesthesiologist...
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) and Divers Alert Network (DAN) Europe are happy to announce a partnership between the two organizations. In addition to global diver safety...
“Deep stops”—the practice of making deep decompression stops, originally popularized by deep diving ichthyologist Richard Pyle in the early 1990s—has largely fallen out of favor with...
As every tekkie knows, helium is essential for deep diving due to the fact it’s non-narcotic and offers low breathing gas density. But it’s conceivable that...
Can pre-dive conditioning with hyperbaric oxygen and dietary supplements lower your risk of decompression illness (DCI) on that big dive? Recent research suggests that it could,...
What does it mean if you keep getting bent, even when you follow all the rules? Avid tech diver James Fraser recounts his and his wife’s...
Historically tech diving has been largely male-dominated, but all you have to do is look around to see that things are changing. For the better! Accordingly...
