Karen van den Oever recently broke her own world cave diving depth record by a little more than 10 m/33 ft at Bushmansgat cave in South...
Armed with reliable rebreathers, expedition-grade scooters, electric heating, helium mixes, high-powered dive computers, and those all-important P-valves, today’s cave explorers are giving our collective underwater envelope...
Portable habitats aren’t only for cave diving. They have long been a dream of undersea technologists like Michael Lombardi, whose ocean space habitats were used during...
This month, we continue to explore innovative rebreathers on today’s market with a dive into KISS’s split-canister designed mCCR, the Sidewinder, launched in 2016. Designed to...
This month we continue our discussion of the migration to closed circuit rebreathers (CCR) and the future of open circuit (OC) scuba for tech diving. Instructor...
Though they were late to the party, Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) is leaning forward on rebreathers, and members are following suit. So what’s to become of...
Tech diving requires a deep body of knowledge that must be kept current. So it seemed appropriate to ask, what books should tekkies have on their...
NextGen Scholar Annika Andresen details her experience taking GUE’s Technical Diver 1, regarded as one of the agency's most rigorous classes. If the failures don’t get...
GUE Instructor Evaluator Guy Shockey explains how to prepare for GUE’s Tech 1 course. That’s right. It requires pre-class preparation.
We join Italian explorer and tech instructor Andrea Murdock Alpini on a poetic exploration of the Felicitas Mine in Germany, as he and his teammates ponder...
