by Richard Taylor. Images courtesy of Rob Wilson unless noted. Hindsight can be sobering. Eight years ago, I argued open circuit (OC) technical training was becoming...
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...
Closed circuit rebreathers have arguably become the platform of choice for BIG DIVES. So, does it make any sense to continue to train divers to conduct...
The advent of mixed gas usage by sport divers—the so-called “Technical Diving Revolution”in the early to mid-1990s—greatly expanded our underwater envelope, while arguably improving diving safety....
We’d like to kick off the new year with a selection of 11 hand-curated stories from our deepening well of content, call it, InDepth’s Top Tech...
The news in 2016 that Poseidon Diving Systems would be incorporating a solid state oxygen sensor in their rebreathers sent a buzz through the rebreather community....
Header image: A tech-inspired jacket from Supreme’s 2021 Junya Watanabe/Comme des Garçons collaboration. Skaters, punks and hip-hop heads can now manifest their inner tekkie, with this...
How did Electrolung inventor Walter Starck and his cronies decompress from dives to 100m/326 ft before the advent of dive computers or even constant PO2 tables?...
By Michael Menduno. This story was originally published in Diver and X-Ray magazine. How can rebreather diving be made safer? That was the question at the...
Simon Mitchell, Session Moderator Editors’ Note: The Final Consensus Statements are given below. The discussion that led to the consensus appears after the Consensus Statements. The...