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 ›
Few of us pay as much attention to our diving health and fitness as we should. I made this discovery while looking into a dive shop window recently. With my nose pressed to the glass – and oblivious to everything… Read More ›
Every working diver worth their salt should have a sound knowledge of rigging procedures and elementary knots and splices. While the ability to tie the appropriate knot in zero visibility; quickly splice a line to a shackle; or join together… Read More ›
As everyone who dives comes to realise, having even a rudimentary knowledge of the ocean’s bio-diversity is an asset – especially when it leads to an increased enjoyment of the activity. One of the great appeals of night diving is… Read More ›
“Do not go gentle into that goodnight Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas For reasons that are obvious to everyone who knows me, I always… Read More ›
In which, I meet up with old friends, lose a ‘new’ one, and learn some valuable lessons about diving, dive planning, dive equipment – and the meaning of life. Some months after the events described in Part One of this… Read More ›
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