The pursuit of deep diving records is an unsettling but accepted facet of tech diving culture. On the one hand, we are driven as a species...
Numerous divers have died trying to break scuba depth records over the years, and the losses continue. Their deaths not only impact their families, friends and...
Join us, won’t you, for the Diving Sciences Symposium, which will be held March 24, 2023, at the Meadowlands Exhibition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey. Beneath...
Using the recently published ISO standards for rebreather training as one of his examples, human factors coach Gareth Lock takes to task the discredited legacy belief...
We kick off the New Year with 10 hand-curated stories from our growing sea of content. They represent some of the most read, important, and fun...
It's likely that many in our community no longer think of tech diving as a risky activity, or perhaps even appreciate how important taking risks may...
An Update from the Organiser Greetings Rebreather Aficionados, Thank you for your interest in Rebreather Forum 4 (RF4)! I wanted to update you on where we...
by Richard Taylor. Images courtesy of Rob Wilson unless noted. Hindsight can be sobering. Eight years ago, I argued open circuit (OC) technical training was becoming...
NextGen Scholar Annika Andresen details her experience taking GUE’s Technical Diver 1, regarded as one of the agency's most rigorous classes. If the failures don’t get...
GUE Instructor Evaluator Guy Shockey explains how to prepare for GUE’s Tech 1 course. That’s right. It requires pre-class preparation.