Errors are normal and can help us learn as long as we understand the kind of error we made, and how it made sense for us...
Sporting vegan diets, yoga, meditation, breath work and plenty of Mucinex, freedivers are often considered to be the woke, hippy contingent of the diving community—backpacks anyone?...
What do you get when you cross a diver’s inner Wim Hof with the urge to exercise their mammalian dive reflex? Freediving cold enough to take...
Human factors coach Gareth Lock reminds us that we will all do something dumb while diving; it’s in our DNA. The trick is to ensure there...
Dr. Alessandro Marroni and his team are preparing to test their real-time diver monitoring system that has been more than 50 years in the making. Called...
Today, community practices limit oxygen exposures to a PO2 of 1.2-1.4 bar for the working phase of the dive and 1.4-1.6 bar for decompression depending on...
What do you do when your power inflator sticks open at depth, you’re unable to disconnect it, and unable to reach your right post to shut...
We’ve all heard the mantra, “Choose your instructor carefully!” Wise words, right? What about choosing your students? Here Stratis Kas, tech diving instructor and author of...
Freediving instructor trainer and coach Ted Harty discusses the ear injury that most scuba and freedivers have likely suffered and didn’t even know what to call...
Compared to Frenzel equalization used by freedivers, Valsalva equalization can be hard on the ears and eustachian tubes, and could cause problems for tech divers with...
