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There is a significant body of evidence which shows that divers involved in diving incidents often make poor decisions—sounds obvious, doesn’t it? So if it is so obvious, why do we continue to make them?
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I am an expat Brit, so it may probably come as no surprise to tell you that I enjoy a cup of tea. A few shots of strong espresso in a bowl of hot milk is my morning drink, but tea is on the menu for most of the rest of the day.
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Divers usually find that their breathing rate drops as they become more experienced, simply as a consequence of their becoming more relaxed and comfortable in the water.
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The issue with diving—at least for this discussion—is that as a diver descends in the water column, he or she has no option but to breathe compressed gas.
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We need to be able to raise the awareness and knowledge of those involved in the sport so that they can truly take responsibility for their own actions.
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After the dive, the instructor again took care of everything, including handing out drinks and snacks and driving the students back to their hotel.
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The summer news for sharks would be incomplete without mentioning the American Shark Week phenomenon.
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After about ten minutes underwater, they found that the current was so strong that it was difficult to keep the group together.
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But perhaps, evolution is too soft a word to describe what’s happened. So many things have changed.
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I told her the answer is simple. “But,” I said, “Do you mind if I ask you a really important question before I answer yours? How do you learn? What type of “student” are you?”
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Every diving accident has a chain of events that lead up to it, but often the chain is only visible afterwards when you reflect on what happened.
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It is the phrase that Scuba Junkie Mabul Resort on the east coast of Borneo has been using over the last seven years when talking passionately about the area in which they take people diving on a daily basis, and about the sharks that they have be
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I was a guest on a dive boat a few months ago. We had just arrived in Crystal Bay, a notorious diving accident black spot on the outlying Balinese island of Nusa Penida, when our attention was drawn by a burst of frenetic activity next to a neighbouring boat. A wetsuited figure was being manhandled over the side of the boat and laid out on deck. A couple of crewmen hunched over the figure while everyone else on board stood to one side, heads craned in concern. Seeing us approach, one of the crew shouted over and asked if we had oxygen.
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Rebreathers are not new: the concept dates back several centuries and they have been used by military and commercial divers for over a hundred years.
Judging by regular postings on any one of the various scuba forums and diving message boards in Cyberland, a fair percentage of newly-minted divers suffer through an overwhelmingly strong urge to replace their current situation with the “romance a
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