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The clients, like most people who sign up for Everest expeditions, were not mountaineers or hard-core climbers. They were folk with little advanced climbing experience, but plenty of money, plenty of guts and a dream.
Read moreI also outlined a defensive diving strategy involving how to use your dive computer.
Read moreSubsequently, as we do more diving, we gradually improve our skills and we experience various problems.
Read moreA professional is someone who gets paid for plying a trade. At the point when you become a dive instructor, you may have done a lot of paying, that’s for sure, but it is unlikely that you will have seen any cash coming your way yet.
Read moreIf you walk into a dive centre with more than a few dives under your belt and say you are thinking of “going pro,” nobody will turn you away. There is no assessment process, no enrolment interview, no talent spotting.
Read moreTaiwan is a Pacific island – actually several islands: a big one and some smaller satellites – surrounded by warm tropical seas.
Read moreThe clients died mainly because the professionals persisted with attempting to reach the summit despite the fact that they had passed their turnaround time; that is, the point in the day at which an attempt on the summit would normally be aborted
Read moreThe first and most critical wave took place as Homo sapiens foragers spread across the continents—causing a mass extinction as they went.
Read moreThis issue’s column is adapted from a chapter in my book Scuba Physiological: Think you know all about Scuba Medicine?
Read moreOn this particular trip, one of the divers, Brian, made it very clear that he did not like these policies. He would often swim some distance away from the group, complaining afterwards that their bubbles kept getting in his photographs.
Read moreHe raised a hand to stop the countdown and searched around to see if he might have inadvertently taken it off and put it down on the bench next to him, but he could not see it. He had left it back on the liveaboard.
Read moreThe chief health and safety inspector who conducted the investigation into the death was quoted as saying: "… the ill-fitted equipment compromised the victim's ability to try and breathe when her air supply ran out.
Read moreIf you have a similar dream, then this is for you. If you find that this short story brings you down to earth with a bump, then that is only because your feet were off the ground to begin with.
Read moreIn the automobile industry, technologies such as ABS braking, air bags and push-button ignition were originally developed for racing cars but have now found their way into family saloons.
Read moreThe philosophy of safer diving through the acquisition of knowledge and skills is the same, although this time the themes are different.
Read moreThis is the second of two articles designed to provoke discussion on the topic. In the first article in the previous issue of X-Ray Mag, I covered some of the more obvious characteristics. Here are a few more.
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