ScubaGadget - The Deep Background on Scuba

We did raise some eyebrows when we took our drysuits (see the companion sidebar article “Fusion is truly a Polar to Tropics drysuit”) to dive the in the “warm” waters around Grand Cayman. But we were in absolute comfort the whole trip and quickly found a lot of good reasons for diving dry in the [...]

At some point before every dive you hand over the care of your lungs to the dive shop employee filling your tank. Few divers ever think about and even less understand what goes on behind the scenes in preparing and operating the complex system that fills his/her tank. When we did research on this question [...]

Even if you are an avid NatGeo nerd, you will still find plenty of remarkable facts you did not know about the GPO (giant Pacific octopus) in the new book Super Suckers The Giant Pacific Octopus and Other Cephalopods of the Pacific Coast by James A. Cosgrove & Neil McDaniel. The first lesson the book offered [...]

Vance Harlow’s book “Oxygen Hacker’s Companion” (Airspeed Press) speaks of nitrox and gas mixing as a modern day dark art. In the introduction he claims that “dive shops and gas suppliers are both well aware of this mystique, often as not seem to enjoy their role as initiates of a discipline which is shrouded in [...]