TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

Deep Influence: Learning Life Lessons from Diving Legends

Mentors are crucial in modelling humility, vital in an activity where the stakes can be high and overconfidence can be deadly.

Without question Rebreathers represent the ultimate in diving. This post illustrates in simple terms why CCR diving is now the standard.

For many, the bowels of wrecks and caves is a foreboding environment that conjures feelings of claustrophobia, darkness and nocuous fates.

Has the Canadian diving community lost faith in the merits of oxygen enriched mediums and if so, what has caused this paradigm shift?

When PADI standardized training in 1966 they opened the floodgates and the industry grew wildly. Does the business model still work today?

We solicited the public opinion on what they felt was Vancouver Island’s top 10 technical dives. Check out what the popular vote was.

Technical diving technology unlocked restraints around effective research and drove opportunities for discovery during six gill shark study

Those who avoid the training necessary to dive to extended ranges, in caves, with mixed gases or deco are known as ‘Armchair Tekkies'.

Gradually we are beginning to excel beyond what was once thought impossible in diving but it has come only after we revisited our history.

Caves and caverns, like wrecks, create an arena for divers offering fantasy and time travel.