We’ve all heard the mantra, “Choose your instructor carefully!” Wise words, right? What about choosing your students? Here Stratis Kas, tech diving instructor and author of...
Experts and those with in depth experience tend to have very different decision-making processes, making it harder for students to learn from them than from newer...
Freediving instructor trainer and coach Ted Harty discusses the ear injury that most scuba and freedivers have likely suffered and didn’t even know what to call...
Now available for desktop and phones, Global Underwater Explorers has updated their DecoPlanner software to include CCR and OC planning and multi-platform licensing. FL, USA, October...
Led by instructor Alberto Nava, Bay Area Underwater Explorers (ΒΑUE) held its fourth annual tech trek to Cozumel, Mexico in early September. An epic time was...
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Award winning photographer and tech instructor Becky Kagan Schott explains why these nine curated Great Lakes shipwreck photos are her favs.
The use of trimix, that is a breathing mix of oxygen, helium and nitrogen has become the standard for dives beyond 30-50m/100-165 ft, depending on who...
Compared to Frenzel equalization used by freedivers, Valsalva equalization can be hard on the ears and eustachian tubes, and could cause problems for tech divers with...
How did Electrolung inventor Walter Starck and his cronies decompress from dives to 100m/326 ft before the advent of dive computers or even constant PO2 tables?...