An on-going dialog around the science of extended range diving.
By Bill Nadeau
This blog invites the diving community to explore together and collaborate on the finer intricacies of diving sciences.
It is difficult to explain the feeling of weightlessness and wonder that the warm Caribbean Sea offers a diver – especially to a non-diver. It is even more difficult to describe the experience of diving through a tunnel filled with brightly coloured soft and hard corals. Coral caves however, add a whole new complexity to overhead diving.
Read MoreCaves and wrecks create an arena for divers offering fantasy and time travel. Their environment introduces an unknown element that perpetuates challenge and human endeavour, an intrinsic reaction in human behaviour (to explore). For many, the bowels of wrecks and caves is a foreboding environment that conjures feelings of claustrophobia, darkness and pernicious fates. Yet, with training and experience, diving in overhead environments can be rewarding and very safe.
Read MoreImagine a small pool of water sunk in the middle of high rocky cliff edges and cathedral pines. This Canuck Billabong is set deep amidst a temperate rain forest and is a karst phenomenon fed and drained by a number of springs and siphons that have passages branching for many kilometers and includes a mountainous escarpment. The second of a two part series on Canadian Cave Diving.
Read MoreOnly lumberjacks and the occasional hiking enthusiast frequent this part of the country. It is a distinctive and undiscovered world where two rivers form of a parallel track of rushing water that produces a series of baths known to very few as the lost pools of Merry Widow Mountain.
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