As somebody once pointed out, heroes are just ordinary people who do extra-ordinary things. That might well be the case. But in an activity like diving, (where nothing should ever be taken for granted), it’s important to choose role models… 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 ›
Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 8
Although it is unhelpful to the operator’s cause to ever think of the media in adversarial terms the very nature of a critical incident is one that tends to favour the journalist’s position; especially when the dive operator has no… 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 ›