Interview by Tim Blömeke. Images courtesy William Howell unless otherwise noted. Special thanks to Duke consulting professor and biomedical engineer Dr. Rachel Lance who suggested this...
Passionate Greek-Italian photographer/filmmaker, author, and cave and sidemount instructor Stratis Kas reviews the nuts and bolts, err the what, which and why of sidemount diving. In...
Over the last three decades, two broad, distinct styles of sidemount configuration have evolved as a result of environmental differences and have come to be generally...
Sidemount was considered heresy back in its early DIY days—please pass the inner tube. And even though there’s now a plethora of commercial kit available, sidemount...
Good things come in threes. At least that’s what explorer and former commercial diver Axel Schoeller believed when he needed a specialized rebreather platform for a...
Once dubbed the “Johnny Appleseed of Rebreathers,” Peter Readey was a ubiquitous figure in the early pre-CCR days of technical diving. He would show up with...
With Europe emerging as the global center for tech rebreather diving, it is becoming increasingly important for non-European rebreather manufacturers to get their CE mark—at least,...
In February, Dr. Richard Harris aka Dr. Harry and the Wet Mules conducted the world’s first hydrogen rebreather dive to a test depth of 230 m...
Numerous divers have died trying to break scuba depth records over the years, and the losses continue. Their deaths not only impact their families, friends and...
Dr. Clarke’s geeky new monograph on the inner workings of rebreather scrubbers represents the culmination and synthesis of more than three decades of Naval research, as...
