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Surprisingly perhaps it is not the most talented that always succeed.
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Much was made of dropout and failure rates, as if the quality of an instructor resided not in how many students passed the course but how many failed.
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The resort would be built by village craftsmen and designed to leave as small an ecological footprint as possible. Materials would be sourced locally, without destruction of either reef or forest.
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It is 5:45 a.m. and my wife gets up in the dark. She is on breakfast duty and kindly wakes me. I am on generator duty. I push the mosquito net aside and climb out of bed. I pull a fleece on over my t-shirt and shorts, and grab a torch.
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We have become “conditioned” to stress being a negative issue, and of course “distress” is extremely negative and often debilitating.
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In June 2014, Jeremy Coster, Alan Cranston, Nigel Haines, Larissa Hooley and Stephen Martin flew from England to Malta for a week's shore diving.
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In 1977, two Boeing 747s were on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife.
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There is much controversy on this subject, and as my disclaimer, these are my personal thoughts and experiences directly related to my recent trip with Mike Ball Dive Expeditions (MBDE).
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The other week, I joined a dive liveaboard charter and two of the fellow guests were very new divers, with four and 24 lifetime dives, respectively.
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It is a simple truth that scuba diving seems to make many of us want to relieve ourselves sooner than we would expect.
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Your first dive instructor is a golden god of the sea!
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The simple answer is—it depends! This article will present a series of arguments so the reader (and diver) can make that decision, as ultimately, it is the diver who is choosing to get in the water and expose themselves to the risks therein.
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There is a significant body of evidence which shows that divers involved in diving incidents often make poor decisions—sounds obvious, doesn’t it? So if it is so obvious, why do we continue to make them?
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I am an expat Brit, so it may probably come as no surprise to tell you that I enjoy a cup of tea. A few shots of strong espresso in a bowl of hot milk is my morning drink, but tea is on the menu for most of the rest of the day.
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Divers usually find that their breathing rate drops as they become more experienced, simply as a consequence of their becoming more relaxed and comfortable in the water.
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The issue with diving—at least for this discussion—is that as a diver descends in the water column, he or she has no option but to breathe compressed gas.
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