Passageways Through Time

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Passageways Through Time

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.

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Adding a Little Sanity to Diving

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Adding a Little Sanity to Diving

Despite how long mixed gases and specifically 'normoxic trimix' has been around, many divers still do not take advantage of the benefits notwithstanding the increasing costs of helium. This article breaks down what trimix is all about and if it is right for you. It also explains what ‘normoxic’ trimix is and why it is becoming increasingly more popular at the recreational level.

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Getting Ahead in Overhead

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Getting Ahead in Overhead

Caves 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.

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Armchair Tekkies

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Armchair Tekkies

Those who fail to gain the experience and the training necessary to dive to extended ranges, in overhead environments, with mixed gases or nitrox and dive decompression are what we refer to as ‘Armchair Tekkies’. They take unnecessary risk because they do not know any better yet persist in dabbling in the activity because its appeal either feeds an ego, an image or a lifestyle.

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