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Sabine Kerkau will be the first German female diver to be inducted in WDHOF, since it was founded almost two decades ago, in 1999.
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In the early days of technical diving, there were no PC planning tools or dive computers suitable for technical dive planning. The only option for planning a dive was to look up a decompression schedule using pre-generated tables.
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DAN President and CEO Bill Ziefle spoke about this award at the Our World Underwater Scholar event that was held in New York earlier this month.
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Steve Slater died after surfacing from a dive on the 'Andrea Doria' on Monday 24th July.
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Steve Slater, 46, from Gateshead in England was diving the luxury ocean liner Andrea Doria on the eve of the anniversary sinking.1
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Are we looking at a smart innovation that will prevail? Will this regulator design provoke a rash of 'me too' products from other manufacturers – a trait that Mares is also guilty of – or is this a 'wacky fad' that will fall by the wayside?
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We can suffer motion sickness when we go boat diving because we stand on a moving platform. The sensation befuddles the brain.
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As is now tradition, the championship took place in Novik Bay in February. The ice on the sea is the most stable during this month. Preparation for the competition was carried out over several weeks.
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A good few years ago, I was a newly minted sports psychologist.
Read morePrometheus is an underwater photography and videography project by Orda Cave Underwater Speleology Center looking into the use of the latest technology in diving lamps to illuminate huge caves also for photography where flash have previously been
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More formally known by scientists as the mesophotic zone, the twilight zone is the part of the world’s tropical oceans at the limits of where corals can photosynthesise.
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In recent years, I have had the chance to dive a series of mines. Mainly these were iron mines and slate mines, which have been opened for years to trained cave divers.
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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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For example, the same first rule is true for technical diving. Gas management 101 starts off by stating something like: “Always have a sufficient volume of appropriate gas to breathe throughout the whole dive!”
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