Reverse profiling

Reverse profiling has been a hot topic over the years and it will probably stay like that until we fully understand decompression and the mechanisms that control whether we get bent or not. The traditional view is that you should start with the deepest dive first and then continue with shallower dives. So far so [...]

New constant weight world record

Sara Campbell has set a new world record in constant weight. Constant weight is a discipline in which the free diver swims down with just mask and fins – no extra use of weights or dumping of such is allowed. She managed to reach 96 metres and the dive lasted 3 minutes and 34 seconds! [...]

Review – PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

Here I am continuing the review of different dive courses and the next in line is PADIs popular course – Advanced Open Water Diver. This is a very common course and most people who start with the Open Water course and keeps diving will do this course sooner rather than later.
This course is NOT a [...]

Dynamite Disaster

A diver has been accidentally killed by dynamite fishermen in Vietnam. The four fishermen told Phun Nu district police that they detonated an underwater explosive after seeing the diver’s bubbles at the surface and thinking that it was a large fish. They realised their horrific error when they entered the water supposedly to recover any [...]

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