This month we take a plunge into the wild world of freediving. You are holding your breath, aren’t you? In our view, the diving community writ...
Though most tech divers have heard of Tom Mount and the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD), it's likely only a few insiders know...
Human factors coach Gareth Lock explores and analyses the theory of “bad apples” as it applies to dive training. Are system failures the fault of individual...
The Mexican government is racing to build a passenger train corridor through the heart of Riviera Maya cave country, and the cenοtes and underground waterways are...
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....
Sporting vegan diets, yoga, meditation, breath work and plenty of Mucinex, freedivers are often considered to be the woke, hippy contingent of the diving community—backpacks anyone?...
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...
Now, just like their triathlete counterparts, freedivers will be able to access their realtime biometric performance data, including heart rate and blood-oxygen saturation, enabling them to...
What do you get when you cross a diver’s inner Wim Hof with the urge to exercise their mammalian dive reflex? Freediving cold enough to take...
Decompression sickness (DCS) is a known risk for compressed gas divers, but until recently it wasn’t on the radar for their breath-hold counterparts. However, as a...
