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6 years 2 weeks ago By Rosemary E Lunn

Hamilton worked with some interesting people, including cutting edge explorers such as Sheck Exley.

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aquaCORPS Tech Pioneer interviews digitally re-published

6 years 2 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

Michael Menduno (M2) was the man who coined the phrase 'technical diving' and published aquaCORPS Magazine

"Pushing the Envelope" exhibit at DEMA

7 years 5 months ago By Michael Menduno

Curated by aquaCORPS Journal founder Michael Menduno, "Pushing The Envelope" will feature nearly 300 images, maps, tables and quotes (circa 1986-1999) from the early days of technical diving.

Set Theory

8 years 11 months ago By Michael Menduno

—The following article is reprinted from the pioneering American journal for technical diving, aquaCORPS, V4, MIX, January-February 1992.

Profile Evie Dudas

9 years 7 months ago By Main Minion

The following is an article entitled “Sea Fever” previously published in AquaCorps Magazine, No. 1 February-March 1990.

Interviewing Wreckers

9 years 9 months ago By Michael Menduno

August 1995—Today, shipwrecks are at the heart of a technological revolution that is redefining the limits of what is possible.

Gary Gentile —Deep Wreck Diver

10 years 2 months ago By Michael Menduno

His latest book, NOAA’s Ark: the Rise of the Fourth Reich, which was released in May 2013, details the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations efforts to expand and restrict access to divers and sportsman to the U.S.

Exley on Mix

11 years 7 months ago By Michael Menduno

Billy was out running errands and Chris, the store manager, called out for me pick-up the phone in the office: someone was interested in our deep diving program.

Improving Rebreather Safety

11 years 9 months ago By Michael Menduno

The last forum, Rebreather Forum 2.0, which I organized with rebreather builder Tracy Robinette, was held 16 years earlier in 1996, at a time when rebreathers were just being introduced to the sport diving market.

Diver with sidemount. Photo by Larry Cohen.

Holy Sidemount!

11 years 12 months ago By Michael Menduno

This of course makes for good copy for the uninitiated—diving companies have long used tech sizzle to sell gear and training to recreationalists—but the fact is, it’s a bit of marketing hyperbole.

Managing Narcosis

11 years 12 months ago By Michael Menduno

Table 1(right) presents the classic view of the progressive effects of nitrogen narcosis based on descriptions in a number of current textbooks (Bennett, 1981; Miller, 1979; Edmonds et al., 1983).

So, what is AquaCorps?

12 years 6 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

Jump back to the summer of 1996 and British Cave Diver Mike Thomas presents me with a copy of aquaCORPS magazine, (and I still have this issue in my office today). It was a defining moment in my diving career.

Call it "High-Tech" Diving

12 years 6 months ago By Main Minion

A new category of diving is taking shape in the recreational diving world that sparks controversy and is a cause of great concern. This, in general terms, is diving deeper and staying down longer than the traditional limits.

Deep D(r)iving Motivations

12 years 6 months ago By Michael Menduno

Among other things, these dives offered the challenge of testing ourselves against narcosis, which we viewed as an obstacle to be overcome, so that we could be “good deep divers”.