Safety Culture - diving in the zone
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“Thank [beep] for that! How lucky were we? We better not do that again.
Don’t tell anyone though, we don’t want to look like amateurs...”
Tech and Training
Technical Diving & Training
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InDepth - Building a Tekkie Library
To answer that question, InDepth, a monthly online magazine, turned to DAN America’s nerdy risk mitigation coordinator cum cave diver, Christine Tamburri to suss out suitable tekkie tomes.
GUE NextGen Scholarship
GUE NextGen Scholarship
If you're a certified diver who is passionate about pursuing further education, have an interest in exploration and conservation, and are ready for a year of new adventures, keep reading to learn more!
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) Launches a Comprehensive Project Diver Program in 2022
Global Underwater Explorers
GUE diver training programs are now reaching new heights with an exploration-grade level of diver training, designed to support the globally significant diving projects for which the organization is well known. GUE’s new Project Diver program distills the agency’s decades of project experience into a program that will support the elevation of community-led, project dives to an entirely new level of sophistication.
Belgium's Laplet Slate Mine: First Visit in Over 100 Years
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Vic Verlinden
Diver in Laplet Slate Mine at the start of the dive
For a cave diver, it is always an exciting moment to be the first to dive a location that has not been visited by other divers before. The Laplet slate mine in the Belgian Ardennes was such a location for our small group of explorers.
BSAC launches Advanced Ocean Diver course
Advanced Ocean Diver (AOD) is an optional course that gives new divers more choice and flexibility as they progress with their training.
The course is open to all Ocean Divers (or divers who have an equivalent certification from another recognised diver training agency and have also completed Nitrox training) aged 14 and over.
Outline
The Advanced Ocean Diver course includes four theory sessions, which can be completed either via eLearning or in person with an instructor, giving flexibility for students and instructors.
Be a Better Divemaster: Apply Human Factors
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Courtesy of Michael Mason
and Peter Symes
Photo courtesy of Michael Mason
Human factors is about making it easier to do the right thing and harder to do the wrong thing. Therefore, for divemasters, human factors is about making it easier for them and their divers to do the right thing and harder to do the wrong thing.
DAN To Unveil New Courses, Safety Resources at DEMA Show 2021
Version 3.0 of DAN’s first aid training courses, Safety Tips for Dive Operators, and a brand-new edition of the Travelers Medical Guide. All are products of DAN’s 41 years of expertise promoting safe diving and managing emergencies.
Bailout CCR Course standards outlined
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Gabriele Paparo
Diver wearing a sidemounted bailout rebreather
Rebreathers are great pieces of kit that do away with the need to carry an excessive amount of dive cylinders on deeper dives. However, this advantage is offset by the need to also carry additional open circuit cylinders on which a diver can bail out in case of a rebreather malfunction. Using another rebreather could be a better solution and to that end, a bailout rebreather course has been developed.
Buddy Dive Resort hosts 10th edition Bonaire TeK
Buddy Dive Resort is proud to host the 10th edition of this popular event and is looking forward to catching up with friends, learning new things, and exploring new depths.
This year there will be presentations and clinics from Lamar Hires -Dive Rite, Randy Thornton - SubGravity, Frauke Tillmans -DAN, Guy Shockey - GUE, Michael Menduno - Indepth, Gabriel Pineda - Shear water and Didier Draguiv - O’Dive Systems.
Buddy Dive’s Tec Coordinator Mr. G about the 10th Anniversary of Bonaire TeK
Tulum: DPV Cave Diving Course in Mexico
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Pierre Constant
Tulum, Mexico. Photo by Pierre Constant
Tulum has changed a lot since I was here last, well over 45 years ago. Once a mere dusty village with beach huts, it is now a booming town with a main street full of bars, restaurants and tourist shops.