We are one breath away from being a drowning victim on every dive. It's a hard reality that divers need to understand and accept if we...
The view among many industry insiders, Pre-RF4, was that rebreather diving has gotten safer—an improvement from the estimate that CCR divers were 5-10x more likely to...
As we’ve come to understand—thank you author Stratis Kas and Human Diver—”close calls” during diving operations are more common than most people realize. But how many...
Jonathan Dekhtiar, an experienced recreational diver, who recently went tech, recounts a close call on what ended up being a solo night dive at an unfamiliar...
There’s a movement afoot to ban breath-holding in pools in an effort to prevent hypoxic fatalities—Sorry, no freediving or scuba training for you! Unfortunately, as dive...
Now that pools are getting busy again for spring and summer training, we thought it fitting for us to take a deep dive into pool chemistry....
Breath-hold diving as a whole, particularly spearfishing, does not have a good safety record due to the large percentage of breath-hold divers who are untrained, but...
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...
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...
