Increased helium prices and reduced availability resulting from recent global shortages, have created hard choices and challenged pocket books for tech divers and instructors. There are...
by Michael Menduno InDEPTH attended gasworld’s Helium Super Summit 2023 in Houston, Texas, in order to better understand what’s happening with the global helium market, and...
More than 20 years before the emergence of technical diving, a handful of intrepid cave divers who were perilously pushing the limits of air diving, began...
With helium prices on the rise, and limited or no availability in some regions, we decided to conduct a survey of global GUE instructors and dive...
How many “deep” open circuit dives would you have to conduct—you are using helium aren’t you?—to pay for a rebreather, training and necessary experience dives? It’s...
I think it is safe to say that rarely do most scuba divers think about what goes into filling their tanks. It’s simple enough, we take...
Roughly 25-years before the emergence of tech diving, commercial divers were pushing the limits of “deep air” as offshore oil fields grew steadily deeper. That is,...
