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Over the years, I have had the privilege of being involved in some fantastic teams, sometimes in a leadership role, sometimes as an advisor helping to form a great team, and in others, as a team member.
Read moreBut let's look at this seriously for a minute. Why do these things appeal to us? Why do we like to be recognised and to have a group identity?
Read moreUntil you get into deep trimix or cave diving training, there is little emphasis in diving qualifications on anything other than meeting performance-based skill standards.
Read moreAccounts of diving accidents hold a hypnotic fascination for us.
Read moreSurprisingly perhaps it is not the most talented that always succeed.
Read moreMuch was made of dropout and failure rates, as if the quality of an instructor resided not in how many students passed the course but how many failed.
Read moreThe resort would be built by village craftsmen and designed to leave as small an ecological footprint as possible. Materials would be sourced locally, without destruction of either reef or forest.
Read moreIt is 5:45 a.m. and my wife gets up in the dark. She is on breakfast duty and kindly wakes me. I am on generator duty. I push the mosquito net aside and climb out of bed. I pull a fleece on over my t-shirt and shorts, and grab a torch.
Read moreWe have become “conditioned” to stress being a negative issue, and of course “distress” is extremely negative and often debilitating.
Read moreIn June 2014, Jeremy Coster, Alan Cranston, Nigel Haines, Larissa Hooley and Stephen Martin flew from England to Malta for a week's shore diving.
Read moreIn 1977, two Boeing 747s were on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife.
Read moreThere is much controversy on this subject, and as my disclaimer, these are my personal thoughts and experiences directly related to my recent trip with Mike Ball Dive Expeditions (MBDE).
Read moreThe other week, I joined a dive liveaboard charter and two of the fellow guests were very new divers, with four and 24 lifetime dives, respectively.
Read moreIt is a simple truth that scuba diving seems to make many of us want to relieve ourselves sooner than we would expect.
Read moreYour first dive instructor is a golden god of the sea!
Read moreThe simple answer is—it depends! This article will present a series of arguments so the reader (and diver) can make that decision, as ultimately, it is the diver who is choosing to get in the water and expose themselves to the risks therein.
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