In late 1999 – in the wake of a spate of highly publicised diving fatalities – I completed a manual intended to help dive industry professionals deal more effectively with negative media publicity and criticism. Although presently in the throes… Read More ›
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Weigh-2-Go: For the traveling diver
For those divers who, when traveling, prefer the convenience of using their own equipment, Zymurgy Inc., have developed a range of portable weights that won’t put your airline baggage allowance over the top. The brain-child of Zymurgy Inc.’s Junior Design… Read More ›
Think or thwim
An abstract concept that most divers claim to practice but one that they seldom think about in any depth, the phrase ‘diving safety’ is a classic example of an oxymoron. (For the benefit of those who believe that an oxymoron… Read More ›
The Mollusc Fu-2 Dive Computer
At the close of the first Tec-Asia Diving Conference – held in Singapore in 1996 – several of the speakers repaired to the Billiard Room bar of Raffles Hotel to enjoy a quiet drink. Inevitably, the conversation drifted towards technical… Read More ›
The Diver’s Prayer
For all of his faults – and he has lots of them – my former dive buddy, Krabbmann, always tries to maintain a grasp on what’s important in diving and what’s not. Sadly, however, he usually fails to apply the… Read More ›
Dive ‘talk’ 2 – acoustically speaking
To state the obvious: water, being a denser medium than air, is a good conductor of sound. This property has both advantages and disadvantages to the diver. On the plus side, sound is magnified and can be heard over vast… Read More ›