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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.
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A 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.
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Last week, our good colleague Stephan Wheelan wrote an excellent recap "The Day the Diving Stood Still" -
,,Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
— Winston Churchill
This issue’s column is adapted from a chapter in my book Scuba Physiological: Think you know all about Scuba Medicine?
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You see the program from time to time at DEMA and other trade events, and you can read about it in the pages of nearly every dive magazine anytime.
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I remember watching a presentation by Sami Paakaarinen on the recovery of two divers who were his friends who had died while diving in the Plura cave system in northern Norway in February 2014.
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If 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.
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In 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.
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This 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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This is the first of two articles aiming to provoke discussion on the topic. Suffice it to say, before I go any further, being a good diver does not just come down to amassing a wallet full of cards and a garage full of cool kit.
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In my previous two articles, I discussed the importance of building a comfort zone and improving the diver’s ability to anticipate problems.
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The impact of diver drop-out is very difficult thing to assess due to a lack of data. The findings discussed in the first article in this series only tracked divers who completed an open water diver course.
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This makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
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Diving is no doubt one of the safest of the adventure sports in terms of the occurrence rate of injury. Diving is also deadly.
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It is this balance of risks that is often hard to understand when something goes wrong and a diver is killed, injured or has a really “scary” moment.
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Ego simply refers to self and how we feel about ourselves. This results in our thoughts, emotions and behaviour. Where an ego is arrogant, overbearing, misguided or delusional, then bad things can and often do happen.
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