By Jeffrey Bozanic, Ph.D. Images courtesy of the author unless noted. Unlike training to pilot aircraft, automobiles, or open circuit scuba gear, current rebreather training is...
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) standardized its training and dive operations on a specially configured, backmount JJ-CCR rebreather more than a decade ago. Though the configuration is...
Deep tunnel boring workers are the modern equivalent of compressed air caisson workers—the poor souls who discovered the bends. Jump to modern day: During a job...
As some tech divers have painfully discovered, there’s an escalating risk of decompression sickness (DCS) with Buhlmann algorithms as dives get progressively deeper and longer. The...
Take a deep dive into China’s only homegrown tech training agency, World Underwater Discovery (WUD), in an exclusive InDEPTH interview with co-founder and president Yuan Wang,...
Technically Speaking – Talks on Technical Diving Volume 1: Genesis and Exodus Written and narrated by Simon Pridmore “Simon Pridmore’s new book, ‘Technically Speaking’ is an outstanding...
Text by Chen Qian, aka “Charlie.” Images and video courtesy of the author unless noted. In a little more than a decade, 33-year old Chen Qian,...
Interview with WUD cofounder and president Yuan Wang by Michael Menduno.
Karst Underwater Research (KUR) exploration divers Bob Beckner, and KUR executive director Matt Vinzant discuss their journey and experience with bailout rebreathers including a discussion of...
What are the advantages of using rebreathers for cave diving? It’s a question that cave instructor and author Stratis Kas, and colleague Lionel Wolovitz explore in...
