Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, once claimed during an interview that he owed his success to his father who had advised him to, “never set yourself goals that you know you can achieve.” An inspirational piece of advice that,… Read More ›
Month: March 2014
How to Survive a Dive Show
Surviving the annual crop of Dive Shows and attendant Conferences takes stamina: Keeping your workload to the minimum while managing to enhance your professional reputation requires finesse. Regular appearances at the international round of diving industry events have, for many… Read More ›
Send down a diver – Part Two
Throughout the second half of the nineteenth and into the early years of the twentieth centuries, the pace in successful deep diving had been set by civilian divers such as Lambert and his contemporaries. Relying more on guts than on… Read More ›
Submarine escape
Building on the lessons learned from the past, submarine disasters are now a rarity, but when they do occur the problem arises of what can be done to assist the crew. Because of possible damage to life support systems, time… Read More ›