THE INDUSTRY ROLE While Risk Management strategies all share certain characteristics, their effectiveness rests on the fact that they are – or should be – tailored to the unique requirements of each individual dive operation. Because there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’… Read More ›
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The Little Shop of Horrors
Going diving is heaps more fun than monitoring the marketing pages of the business press, but if some diving operators hope to keep their heads above water then they may need to catch up on their reading. Obsessed with teaching… Read More ›
Survival of the fittest
Had recreational diving been an option when Charles Darwin set out aboard ‘HMS Beagle’ on his ground-breaking scientific voyage of discovery, then there’s a very real possibility that he may have scrapped the whole notion of natural selection and the… Read More ›
“Here there be Monsters.”
The makers of ancient navigational charts had it easy: whenever they ran out of information on the boundaries of the known world they just scrawled quick and convenient warnings like, “Here there be Monsters”, around the edges of their maps… Read More ›
Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 7
Continuing with abridged extracts from the ‘Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide’: “WE HAVE A PROBLEM.” All sectors of the diving industry have a different interpretation of what constitutes a crisis. For an Equipment Manufacturer or Distributor, a crisis… Read More ›
The problem with penguins
It might be the little things in life that matter, but it’s the big things that get our attention. Take whales, for example. Weighing in at a whopping 60,000-plus kilograms, (that’s about 132,000 pounds for the metrically challenged) the mighty… Read More ›