TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

We have spent decades making diving equipment smarter. Perhaps the uncomfortable question is whether we have made the diver smarter at the same rate.

Recognition has become decoupled from actual contribution. History remembers the loudest voices first. There is something troubling when storytelling begins to eclipse substance. When documentaries become more famous than decades of exploration. When awards celebrate narratives more readily than sustained contribution.

Be realistic about your abilities and ask yourself - “how much experience do I really have?”. I bet it is not as much as your think.

The plight of cowboys breathing voodoo gas (Nitrox) has freaked many out but let's put things into perspective.

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

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