Active thermal heating systems will keep you warm in cold water and improve diver safety, but can they also increase your risk of getting bent? Our...
Though your chances of getting bent are relatively low, your risk increases five to 13-fold in the presence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO), which may...
Frauke Tillmans and Virginie Papadopoulou and their team need YOUR HELP counting bubbles! Their goal: to develop an automated algorithm to detect and score venous gas...
People like to give GUE a hard time for their uncompromising focus on team diving. But a pair of divers from GUE Seattle has taken it...
Isobaric counterdiffusion is one of those geeky, esoteric subjects that some tech programs deem of minor relevance, while others regard it as a distinct operational concern....
NAUI is one of the few training agencies that offers specific protocols to address Isobaric Counterdiffusion (ICD). Here NAUITEC Instructor Trainer and Examiner Daniel Millikovsky explains...
As every tekkie knows, helium is essential for deep diving due to the fact it’s non-narcotic and offers low breathing gas density. But it’s conceivable that...
Can pre-dive conditioning with hyperbaric oxygen and dietary supplements lower your risk of decompression illness (DCI) on that big dive? Recent research suggests that it could,...
What does it mean if you keep getting bent, even when you follow all the rules? Avid tech diver James Fraser recounts his and his wife’s...
As counter-errorism expert Gareth Lock, principal of Human in The System, explains: the river of denial runs deep through the diving community as demonstrated by this...
