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DIRrebreather: Nitrox Rebreather Diving

Cedric Verdier

This book is dedicated to Nitrox rebreather diving and the basic principles and skills that every rebreather diver should know and master. It covers some topics like balance and trim with a rebreather, risk management, and proper Nitrox dive planning.

# Paperback: 84 pages # Publisher: Nitrox Rebreather Diving (January 26, 2008) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 2953093508 # ISBN-13: 978-2953093506 # Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches

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Subsurface Noise How the snapping shrimp makes itself heard. You might expect the oceans below the... Water properties X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007	Awesome Australia Australia — the land ‘Down Under’ — renown for Uluru (the rock formerly know as Ayers),... AustralAsia X-Ray Mag #14 - Dec 2006	Photo & Ice Diving Ice diving is always something out of the ordinary. The atmosphere, colors, flora and... How to... \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #28 - Mar 2009
Diving into Mysteries Off North Carolina As I stand on the upper deck of the Midnight Express, one of two dive boats operated by... United States X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009	Becoming a Coast Guard Diver The surface of the 12-foot pool bubbles like a hot tub while instructors below signal to... Feature X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007	The Girl in the Bubble Time travel becomes reality, as I descend beneath the waterline in a 1944 Mark V Hard... Girl Diver X-Ray Mag #25 - Sep 2008
Ambon “Have a great time, but keep your head down!” This was the response I received from a... South East Asia X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007	Black Sea - a place of myth and mystery The Black Sea is interesting not only for tourism and diving but also from the scientific... Oceanography X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007	Nemos Nose Even before the clownfish achieved Hollywood stardom as cartoon character Nemo, most of... Fish X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005
Rea sea There is something special about it, the Red Sea, that I have not found anywhere else on... Red Sea X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007	Naked beauties Most divers have seen them. Weird-looking crawling creatures with odd shapes, antennae... Nudibranchs X-Ray Mag #22 - Mar 2008	The Wake UP call A long time ago, I sat in hoosha (Bedouin tent) after a deep air dive in the Blue Hole (... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006
Wrecks of Narvik The port of Narvik in north Norway was established around the export of iron-ore from... WW2 X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005	Nitrogen Narcosis Nitrogen narcosis, or “rapture of the deep,” is one of those things that some divers like... DivePsych X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007	ocean conveyor belt - the thermohaline circulation Can global warming trigger a shutdown or slowdown the circulation in the world’s oceans... Oceanography X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006
Pacific Northwest - A rhapsody in red What wonderfully brilliant red colors one can find in the underwater realm, especially in... Pacific North West X-Ray Mag #04 - Apr 2005	Miranda Krestovnikoff Wreck detective Miranda Krestovnikoff recently completed another series of dive... Profiles X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005	Saving the Turtles on Bali Your support made the difference. Your support is still needed. This is why... We... Conservation \| Feature \| Turtles X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007
Where the Girls Are… Gorgeous neoprene clad GirlDivers have long graced the covers of the scuba periodicals,... Girl Diver X-Ray Mag #24 - Jul 2008	Reefs & Rainforests Conservation Success Stories in Borneo’s Sabah region Malaysia X-Ray Mag #32 - Nov 2009	Technical Diving Paradise In Pacific NW I often raise a few eyebrows when I exclaim, “I’ll take diving in the Pacific Northwest... Pacific North West \| Deep Wrecks X-Ray Mag #33 - Dec 2009
A Fishy Sixth Sense The environments in which the many fish species have evolved are very diverse, ranging... Water properties X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	10 Q & A’s About DIR Rebreather What is DIRrebreather? Since its implementation a few years ago, the Doing It Right (DIR... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #23 - May 2008	Pascal Bernabé A conversation with technical diver and depth record breaker, Pascal Bernabé. Pascal... Profiles X-Ray Mag #23 - May 2008
The Oceanic Cornucopia For millennia, mankind has been obtaining nourishment from the oceans, not only from fish... Water properties X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006	South Africa Covering an area of over 1,200,000 sq km, with nearly 3000km of rugged coastline, South... South Africa X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005	Salty Oceans It would seem to be self-evident to use the adjective ‘salty’ in connection with the... Water properties X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005
Liduine Bekman It was inevitable that the ocean became the main focus of my painting. I started diving,... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007	Manta ray Ecology If you ask a group of people what is a manta, nine out of ten will think of stingrays or... Rays X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007	Diving Rebreathers Rebreathers look cool, glitzy, technical and heralded as the future of diving, right? We... Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005
Nova Scotia I can not stop feeling, that I am at the White Sea in the northern part of Russia. Mirror... Canada X-Ray Mag #09 - Feb 2006	Acidification of the Oceans There has been much discussion in recent years about the effect of increasing global... Water properties X-Ray Mag #22 - Mar 2008	Illumination Nice subject matter and good visibility is a prerequisite for a great image. But just as... Still photography \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #29 - May 2009
Find Wally Is it mimicry, mimesis or camouflage? Behaviour X-Ray Mag #24 - Jul 2008	Glowing Jellyfish Probably about 90 percent of deep-sea animals are bioluminescent. Some jellies use... Jellyfish X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	Bangaram Island Dreaming of diving off an uninhabited tropical island? Doing this by liveaboard boat is... Indian Ocean X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008
Zena Holloway Reknown for her extraordinary magical imagery, Zena Holloway is an artist who has taken... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007	Patagonia Consider a windy place — I mean, very windy — so windy you must ask the wind about what... South America X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006	Using HMI Lights HMI technology is not new. Evolved in the late 1960s, a lamp developer Osram began... How to... X-Ray Mag #10 - Apr 2006
U89 - Exploring U-boats in Ireland Now laying 25 miles off Malin Head, time stands still for this very impressive war... Europe \| WW2 \| Submarines X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005	Shipwreck CSI Marine archaeology is a specialized science that combines techniques developed by land-... Preservation X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009	Rescuing a Rebreather Diver How to deal with an unconscious rebreather diver? The title of this article was... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007
Ralph Hagen Ralph Hagen can remember the actual moment he started cartooning as if it were yesterday... Profiles X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006	British Columbia’s Reefs of Steel I could hear a low rumble as detonated explosives echoed down long empty corridors and... Artifical Reefs \| Canada X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009	The Diabetes Controversy Diabetes ranks as one of the most controversial medical conditions affecting divers and... News X-Ray Mag #14 - Dec 2006
El Hierro In Columbus’ time, El Hierro was considered the limit of the known world in Europe. For... Europe X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006	Locomotion The way an animal gets around in the sea and or in the air depends, fundamentally, on the... Water properties X-Ray Mag #23 - May 2008	Cornwall - Cornish reefs Global diving travel has become increasingly easy over the last decade or so, providing... Europe X-Ray Mag #23 - May 2008
Girls on Speed Hollywood blockbuster Mission Impossible III shows Ving Rhames diving beneath the Vatican... Girl Diver X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008	Why Vitamins Protect Divers Does diving produce free radicals? Can vitamins really protect divers from some the... Andrey Bizyukin X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007	Varonya Cave Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Dive sites X-Ray Mag #15 - Feb 2007
Tea, nitrox and vodka - Diving Lake Baikal Deep in the heart of Siberia lies one of the world’s largest lakes and one of its seven... Russia X-Ray Mag #01 - Oct 2004	Claiming the North Pole On August 2, 2007, the weather was good at the North Pole. The sea was calm, the water... Feature X-Ray Mag #22 - Mar 2008	Jason Taylor Not all artificial reefs are shipwrecks or scuttled vessels, tanks or planes. Now divers... People X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
Crossing the Altantic Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Feature \| Oceanography X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006	Introduction to rebreathers Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #04 - Apr 2005	Fontaine de Vaucluse - Treasure Cave This amazing tale begins with the selection of a group of divers who were asked to... Feature \| Cave Diving X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
Saltstraumen The current grabs you as soon as you enter the water. Your first thought, this is going... Scandinavia \| Dive sites X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007	Bill Stone Caves, rebreathers, risk assessment, the meaning of life, acceptable risks, the future of... Profiles X-Ray Mag #15 - Feb 2007	Phil Nuytten “If you think about it, the space between the highest mountain peak which is seven miles... Profiles \| People X-Ray Mag #09 - Feb 2006
Tamariu - a hidden secret I made up my mind quite a long time ago about whether or not I should entrust you with... Mediterranean X-Ray Mag #25 - Sep 2008	Riviera Maya The Yucatan Peninsula is located in the south of the contiguous Mexican states. The... Caribbean X-Ray Mag #15 - Feb 2007	Coral Bleaching Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006
Australia Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... X-Ray Mag #14 - Dec 2006	Extreme Exploration Dives How to master the complexities of extensive explorations of underwater caves and other... Pascal Bernabé \| Cave Diving X-Ray Mag #31 - Sep 2009	Clement Lee Clement Lee is the embodiment of the entrepreneurial dive industry pioneer. In this... Profiles X-Ray Mag #32 - Nov 2009
The Hunt For S8 Below some ragged pieces of wreckage lying on the bottom beside the hull, I see something... WW2 \| Submarines X-Ray Mag #22 - Mar 2008	Tagging Whale Sharks Utila is the smallest of the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras, where divers go in... Behaviour \| Conservation \| Sharks X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005	Invasion of the King crab The Cold War has been over for more than two decades, but a relentless red army of... Human Impacts X-Ray Mag #10 - Apr 2006
Why and How ecosystems change Across the globe, coral reefs are in peril—this is already old news. Man-made stresses—... Ecosystems X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007	White nights at the White Sea Russia. I am here. I am gripped by a sense of disbelief. As the tundra flies past the... Russia X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007	Pierre Sentjens Pierre Sentjens is an artist and painter living in Brussels, Belgium. X-RAY MAG caught up... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #27 - Dec 2008
Celebrate the Sea 2005 Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Reviews X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	Sam MacDonald A move to the remote northern Scottish province of Orkney sparked a love of the sea,... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005	No Secret for Victoria! What does a fish exporter from Norway, a Chief Information Officer and diving instructor... WW1 X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008
High Arctic The sea ice is about two metres thick above frigid Arctic waters over 300 metres deep—and... Adventure X-Ray Mag #12 - Aug 2006	Visayas - Philippines The “Visayas” is a group of islands that comprises the central portion of the Philippine... South East Asia X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007	Noise Aquatic animals, like their land-based relatives, can communicate in a number of ways.... Water properties X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
Admat Wreck Detectives Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Feature X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005	Bali’s East Coast When India’s Prime Minister Pandit Nehru visited Bali in 1950 to attend celebrations... South East Asia X-Ray Mag #27 - Dec 2008	Seven Deadly Sins Except if you spent a few years in a catholic church or a few hours enjoying the movie... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #27 - Dec 2008
Ireland's Connemara Jerome Hingrat writes: Sliding into brackish water riddled by a seasonal downpour might... Europe X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	Raja Ampat Raja Ampat in Indonesia is dotted with tiny islands scattered like beads across an area... South East Asia \| AustralAsia X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	North America's 'Pacific Northwest Puget Sound • San Juan Islands • Strait of Juan de Fuca • Vancouver Island • Alaska... United States \| Canada X-Ray Mag #04 - Apr 2005
Odyssea Marine Exploration Millis Keegan interviews Odyssey Marine Exploration’s Principal Marine Archaeologist Neil... Profiles \| People X-Ray Mag #29 - May 2009	DEMA Orlando 2006 Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Reviews X-Ray Mag #14 - Dec 2006	The Perfect Workflow Without a proper workflow when doing digital photographing, the quality of your images... How to... \| Still billeder \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #23 - May 2008
Configuration Since the introduction of Scuba diving in the mid 1950s, one of the most hotly debated... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005	Scubazoo Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... How to... X-Ray Mag #14 - Dec 2006	Norway Land of Fjords & Seas of Plenty. This feature takes your around the country, from the... Scandinavia X-Ray Mag #10 - Apr 2006
Frank Russell These days anything we can do to help the environment and recycle is a good idea.... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #28 - Mar 2009	Going Wide The notion that wide-angle lenses can only be used for large subject matter is common,... Still photography \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #33 - Dec 2009	Dailan Pugh Australian artist and painter, Dailan Pugh, knows the underwater realm. He captures its... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #01 - Oct 2004
Jewels of Tanzania - African Safari & Pemba Island Diving Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti... boasting a wealth of natural beauty that... Africa X-Ray Mag #31 - Sep 2009	Diveshows spring 2006: EUDI (Rome) - Our World Underwater (Chicago) - Moscow Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Reviews X-Ray Mag #10 - Apr 2006	Royal Tasmania Tasmania’s Southwest National Park and World Heritage Area is the land that time forgot,... AustralAsia X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005
After the Tsunami It was a day of unbelievable violence. Sometimes Nature decides to wake up and with an... South East Asia \| Feature X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005	What to think about before buying a rebreather One morning, sooner or later, you will wake up with a strange sensation—as if some minor... Cedric Verdier X-Ray Mag #25 - Sep 2008	Jim Bram - A talk with NAUIs president NAUI turns 50. Are the founding principles still valid half a century later, have they... Profiles X-Ray Mag #28 - Mar 2009
Antibes Festival of Underwater Images 2005 Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Reviews X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005	Sharks of Honduras ROATAN ISLAND, Honduras --- The attorney strokes the white belly of an eight-foot-long... Feature \| Sharks X-Ray Mag #04 - Apr 2005	Turks & Caicos Islands Oh yes, the sharks are circling. Can you say ‘Amen’? With an accent hinting of both... Caribbean X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009
Marcelo Tatsuyoshi Kato Do water and paper mix? Yes, they do in the Marcelost World created by the Japanese... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #31 - Sep 2009	Travelling and Camera Luggage Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... How to... \| Dan Beecham X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006	Getting it all right Mask clearing and deployment of the Surface Marker Buoy. What's the connection... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005
Night Photography Night diving is the ultimate for many divers. Underwater photography without light is... Still photography \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008	ADEX 2006 Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Reviews X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006	Environmental Awareness for Photographers It is sad, but true—underwater photographers do not have a good track record or... Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #21 - Feb 2008
Going Digital Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... How to... X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005	The Quest for Yolanda I was on a deco stop in the cold waters of the national dive centre in the UK when my... Red Sea \| Adventure \| Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	Pulau Weh - Rebirth of Paradise after the Tsunami On a beautiful day just like any other, divers in the water were enjoying the underwater... South East Asia X-Ray Mag #25 - Sep 2008
Rescue in Remote locations Do you plan to explore a deep virgin wreck? Is it your dream to discover a unique cave... Cedric Verdier X-Ray Mag #22 - Mar 2008	Temperature We have previously looked at the various properties of water which have an effect on... Water properties X-Ray Mag #21 - Feb 2008	Thetis Island Tallen, my youngest daughter and part-time dive buddy entered the cool emerald coloured... Pacific North West X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008
Sipadan revisited I’ve always been both somewhat envious and intrigued by what Sabah, Malaysian’s... Malaysia X-Ray Mag #32 - Nov 2009	Mangrove Ecofieldtrips Pte Ltd is a Singapore based company which employs specialist biologists to... Ecosystems \| Conservation X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005	Jordan The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is just soaked in this special ambience that dreams and... Red Sea X-Ray Mag #12 - Aug 2006
Leatherback Expedition Save Our Leatherbacks Operation completed its fourth year of expeditions to the nesting... Conservation \| Turtles X-Ray Mag #29 - May 2009	Safety Margins on a Rebreather There used to be a time when there was no safety margin in any activity that the human... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007	First Frogmen During the first years of World War II Italian frogmen demonstrated to the world how... Feature X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005
Lamps Do divers really need underwater lamps? It is a simple question to which there is no... How to... X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007	Marine Insects When we think of the animals of the oceans our first thoughts are generally of whales,... Water properties X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	They are all Transsexuals The popular anemone fishes are mostly known for their symbiosis with giant sea anemones,... Ecosystems X-Ray Mag #21 - Feb 2008
Journey to Bikini Atoll In contrast to the Bikini report by the expert Dutch expedition, X-RAY MAG’s Barb Roy... Micronesia \| Cold war X-Ray Mag #29 - May 2009	Ray Troll “In the fall of 1997, I travelled a thousand miles down the Amazon River on assignment... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #09 - Feb 2006	Flash Photography Getting an underwater camera is really only half the solution. Without a proper light... How to... \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
Dive Tables or Computers? Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	Siberian Caves Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Adventure X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005	Diving the hot spots of Vancouver Island My dive buddy and I enter the cool clear water and descend down a mooring line to the... Pacific North West X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006
Do it right Something I find surprising in the 21st century is the amount of divers that have had no... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #14 - Dec 2006	Diving with Weapons of mass destruction The Swedish Coast Guard is responsible for surveillance of and response to oil and other... Human Impacts X-Ray Mag #25 - Sep 2008	Thingvellir, Iceland As I slide out of the shallow basin and drag myself past the top edge of the drop-off, I... Europe \| Dive sites X-Ray Mag #24 - Jul 2008
Andre Hartman - the shark man Nowadays, sharks are big business and many divers and scientists have made a name for... Profiles X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005	Great White Shark Dive with Amos Nachoum How to get out of the protective cage and swim with the Great White shark—that’s what Big... Sharks X-Ray Mag #33 - Dec 2009	To Boldly Go Where.... The Star Trek Legacy goes underwater Profiles X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009
Sidemounts - A matter of Convenience It has been a year now since I started to exclusively side-mount the off-board tanks of... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #21 - Feb 2008	C H I H U L Y Effortlessly I glide through a sapphire sea, admiring sparkles on the underside of slick... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #12 - Aug 2006	Yoga & Diving A place without distraction, a place without time. The place one can find solace and... Girl Diver X-Ray Mag #29 - May 2009
Finding Yolanda wreck I checked in at Gatwick Airport on Saturday, the third of December, with three very large... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #09 - Feb 2006	Solomons - The Spirit of Morovo A dark cloud developed ahead of me. Curious, I swam nearer to investigate. The cloud... South Pacific \| Adventure X-Ray Mag #14 - Dec 2006	Stingrays "Stingray kills television host" The headlines soon spread all over the world... Sharks X-Ray Mag #14 - Dec 2006
Fish fashion Is there any diver who has not been fascinated by the wonderful colours of reef fishes... Water properties \| Fish X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005	Polluce Wreck - the Recovery It was one of those highly unlikely chains of unforeseable events that led us to Elba the... Feature \| Italy \| Medieval vessels X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005	Tasman Peninsula “Tasmania is a secret garden at the edge of the southern ocean. Every dive in Tasmania... AustralAsia X-Ray Mag #01 - Oct 2004
Rebreather comfort Most of the articles one can find about rebreathers deal with potential problems and... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007	Bali Dark grey!. Usually a colour associated with dull. Not here. The dark lava sand creates a... South East Asia \| Turtles X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005	Hydrothermal vents Hydrothermal vents are places in the Earth’s crust where very hot water arises from vents... Water properties X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005
Corals for sale The exploitation of corals has depleted stocks all over the world. This is not only... Conservation \| Corals X-Ray Mag #24 - Jul 2008	Water - A Unique Solvent Water is obviously important as a basic necessity for maintaining life. Quite simply, if... Water properties X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007	Barents Sea All along the shores of the Kola Peninsula in North Russia, Finno-Ugric tribes (Laplander... Russia X-Ray Mag #28 - Mar 2009
Just a 200m Dive The entrance of the Sra Keow cave, north of Krabi, Thailand, is dark and quiet. All the... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers \| Cave Diving X-Ray Mag #12 - Aug 2006	Trimix From the Basic Nitrox levels through to advanced Trimix, we base our calculations of dive... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #12 - Aug 2006	Polluce wreck Like every grand tale of shipwreck and lost treasure, the story about the Polluce has it... Feature \| Italy \| Tall and wooden ships X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005
Lyngstøls vattnet - Norway Norway. The Norang valley is clothed in pale green birch leaves and sprouting grass, and... Dive sites X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007	Patrick Chevailler Patrick Chevailler was born in Bordeaux, France, in July 1946. All during his teen age... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006	Using Filters Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... How to... \| Dan Beecham X-Ray Mag #15 - Feb 2007
Backlight Impressive backlit images do not necessarily require the use of a flash. Just aim towards... How to... \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #34 - Feb 2010	Marine Protected Areas At the moment there are approximately 5000 marine protected areas (MPAs), located around... Conservation X-Ray Mag #31 - Sep 2009	Glimpses of Malaysia Depending on your yardstick, or which encyclopedia you consult, Malaysia boasts a... South East Asia X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005
First Frogmen - part 2 In the years prior to World War II, the Italian fleet had developed a new underwater... Feature X-Ray Mag #09 - Feb 2006	President Coolidge Henry Nelson. Does the name ring a bell? You’ll not find him in any history book or see... WW2 \| Cedric Verdier \| South East Asia \| Feature X-Ray Mag #15 - Feb 2007	Golden Dolphin 2007 Moscow in Februaryâ€”for a Westerner, that brings up certain associations; one, is the... Reviews X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007
No Flash Taking photos underwater without a flash is not common, but it actually is easier than... Still photography \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #27 - Dec 2008	Redundancy In the world of technical diving, a direct ascent to the surface is not an option if you... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #04 - Apr 2005	Macro Photography Differences of opinion have have raged throughout history as to where close-up... Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007
Deconstructing a 330m World Record Dive This is the moment I have waited for for years. I sit comfortably on the side of Denis... Profiles X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008	Photographing Wrecks A photographer’s heart always seems to beat a little faster when it comes to taking... How to... \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #22 - Mar 2008	Are Puget Sound Orcas starving to death? Two of the resident orca families from Puget sound —L and K pods—have been seen in recent... Conservation \| Dolphins \| Manatees and Dugongs \| Whales X-Ray Mag #27 - Dec 2008
Cathy Church Down the stairs to the friendly photo shop at Sunset House Hotel, a dive resort on Grand... Profiles X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005	Ordinskaya Cave X-Ray Mag editor Andrey Bizyukin takes us deep in under the Kaukasus range Adventure X-Ray Mag #10 - Apr 2006	Manupulation Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... How to... X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005
Lessons learned - A thirst for life. Not all technical dives end up successfully; unforeseen circumstances often make an... Russia X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009	Marathon Fish Larvae Coral reef fish ecology is a new research area, probably just about 40 years old,... Fish X-Ray Mag #04 - Apr 2005	Ron and Valerie Taylor Valerie Taylor, along with her husband Ron, are two of the true pioneers of underwater... Profiles \| Sharks X-Ray Mag #01 - Oct 2004
Dr. Sylvia Earle Named Time magazineâ€™s first â€œhero for the planetâ€ in 1998, marine biologist Sylvia... Profiles X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	General von Steuben German ocean liner General von Steuben was torpedoed by a Russian submarine in 1945... WW2 \| Feature \| Ferries and cargo ships \| Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005	Antibes Festival of Underwater Images 2007 Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Reviews X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007
Want to be a wreck detective? ADMAT is back in action, this time in the Philippines where we have organised a... Archaeology X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005	New Zealand Barb Roy writes: The Maori warrior cautiously moved towards us. His face was painted and... AustralAsia X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007	Fins Fins provide a great way to get from point A to point B in an H2O environment. In fact,... How to... X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007
Zanzibar - Diving Unguja & Pemba Island The spacious, purpose-built dhow slid through the calm Indian Ocean. We were briefed... Africa X-Ray Mag #31 - Sep 2009	Diving the Delta - Botswana’s Okavango River Carrying all we would need for the next five days, our expedition team travelled some 65... Africa \| Dive sites X-Ray Mag #31 - Sep 2009	Rigging Your Gear Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... X-Ray Mag #12 - Aug 2006
Bonaire - A Diver's Paradise The small island of Bonaire is part of the island group called the Dutch Caribbean and is... Caribbean X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009	Sardines. Dolphins, Sharks ... South Africa! Since times long forgotten, the promise of treasures such as diamonds, gold and platinum... South Africa X-Ray Mag #25 - Sep 2008	Osmosis We have written much here in this magazine about the different properties of water. Some... Water properties X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007
Kids Love To Dive Reaching out to a new generation of divers Teaching \| SSI X-Ray Mag #32 - Nov 2009	Maintenance & Care Dependable and well functioning camera equipment is the foundation of good pictures. This... Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #25 - Sep 2008	The River Una - Cave Diving in Bosnia Herzegovina The third dimension, a Bosnian experience Cave divers are like rock-face climbers;... Mediterranean X-Ray Mag #12 - Aug 2006
Let there Be Light Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... How to... \| Dan Beecham X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005	Odyssey of the Life Amphibious Expedition We were headed for the island of Kefalonia off the western coast of mainland Greece. This... Feature \| People X-Ray Mag #34 - Feb 2010	Beluhas of the White sea Natural reserves, nurseries, marine parks, aquariums and farms that save different... Russia \| Whales X-Ray Mag #27 - Dec 2008
Fish Photography Shooting fish with a camera isn’t easy! Unlike people they are perfectly adapted to the... How to... \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007	Ghost ships of Palau Hidden beneath the serene waters of Palau’s lagoon lie dozens of coral encrusted Japanese... South Pacific \| Feature X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006	Ron Stewart Depending on who you ask, humans are responsible for removing between 20 million and 100... Profiles X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007
Fabulous Fiji Scott Bennett writes: I’d like to introduce you to some of our friends, enthused our... South Pacific X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007	Belize's Great Blue Hole We jump into the water as a pair of bull sharks swim past. As we descend into the depths... Caribbean \| Dive sites X-Ray Mag #01 - Oct 2004	Fish for all Fish stocks are depleted world-wide. Over fishing, pollution and coastal development is... Conservation \| Fish X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007
The shape of the Hammerhead's head Why the peculiar head shape of the hammerhead shark developed as it did has been the... Sharks X-Ray Mag #23 - May 2008	Regulators After my very first pool session, I was hooked. Every thought I had circled around diving... How to... X-Ray Mag #15 - Feb 2007	Kurt Amsler Kurt Amsler, winner of over 100 awards at international photo competitions and a world... Profiles X-Ray Mag #12 - Aug 2006
Bali - the island of Gods Bali. It’s a name synonymous with a tropical island paradise, conjuring up images of... South East Asia X-Ray Mag #27 - Dec 2008	Three Caribbean Islands It’s not by chance that the producers of the Pirates of the Caribbean series of Hollywood... Caribbean X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008	The Sound of Mull and Oban Western Scotland There is a point in the journey to the west coast of Scotland just a little way north of... United Kingdom X-Ray Mag #34 - Feb 2010
Debugging the sunscreen factor Just like GirlDivers don’t go under the waves without our “life support system”, we... Mermaid Matters X-Ray Mag #23 - May 2008	Japanese Battleship Nowadays, the name Yamashiro could have different meanings depending on where you come... Cedric Verdier \| South Pacific \| Feature X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006	In search of the Great White Shark The boat’s four occupants were spear fishing for Yellowtail. As Mark began to ask the... South Africa \| Sharks X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
Technical Diving: Why? Technical diving gives you the opportunity to develop your diving without becoming an... Training X-Ray Mag #01 - Oct 2004	Animals with Missiles What? Animals in the sea armed with missiles? And thousands of them? Yes, you’ve read... Jellyfish X-Ray Mag #12 - Aug 2006	Moscow River “Moscow—Port of Five Seas” is written on the banner of the north river terminal in Moscow... Russia X-Ray Mag #33 - Dec 2009
Discover the Underwater charms of New Foundland Many millions of years ago, a piece of a land broke away from the ancient continent,... Canada X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005	MIDE Kuala Lumpur 2007 Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Reviews X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007	Cold water corals Different conservation groups have the last couple of decades brought our attention to... Conservation \| Corals X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007
Flourescent Corals In the previous issue of X-ray Mag the problem of coral bleaching was discussed.... Biology X-Ray Mag #11 - Jun 2006	A phone call is all that it takes We have reported on the plight of the sea turtles before. We have reported how they were... Turtles X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007	Hawaii I selected Maui, Molokai and Lanai of the Hawaiian Island Archipelago for my escape. Not... South Pacific X-Ray Mag #10 - Apr 2006
Safer Solo Diving on a rebreather Discussions about diving are very often boringâ€”always the same stories about numerous... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007	Rebreather for Cave Diving The use of rebreathers in caves is nothing new. Decades ago, Hans and Lotte Hass used... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers \| Cave Diving X-Ray Mag #28 - Mar 2009	Adex 2007 Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Reviews X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007
Dolphin Ecology When you are on the way back to the harbor after the afternoon dive, wild dolphins often... Dolphins X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005	Scrubbers & Sensors There is more and more talk of rebreathers, stated as being the future of diving. However... Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #04 - Apr 2005	Blaschka This summer, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009
Scapa Flow - The Wrecks of Scotland’s Orkney Islands Situated 25 km (15 miles) north of the Scottish mainland, the Orkney Islands are located... WW1 \| United Kingdom X-Ray Mag #31 - Sep 2009	Fraser Bathgate Fraser Bathgate, Vice President and Director of Training for the International... Profiles X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005	Catacombs of Paris Paris. City of lights, but of shadows, too. The capital has become a sought-out place for... Adventure \| Dive sites \| Cave Diving X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007
Cayman Islands Situated in the sparkling Caribbean Sea, the three Cayman Islands, known as Grand Cayman... Caribbean X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005	Fitness for technical divers There is no such thing as safe technical rebreather diving without proper preparation.... Cedric Verdier X-Ray Mag #23 - May 2008	Double Standards For the last 30 years or so, dive training agencies have been certifying recreational... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #10 - Apr 2006
Eat kelp Did you know that kelp is an ingredient in many household foods! Foods like frozen foods... Feature X-Ray Mag #15 - Feb 2007	A talk with Richard Pyle Biologist, rebreather diver, inventor of Pyle Stops or... database manager X-RAY MAG... Profiles X-Ray Mag #21 - Feb 2008	Coloured Water No! I am not talking about American beer but about ordinary clean water, water that... Water properties X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006
Who Owns a Shipwreck? New technology now allows for the exploration of deep-water wrecks previously not... Salvaging and preservation \| Treasure hunting X-Ray Mag #01 - Oct 2004	Panning, Zooming & Rear Curtain Sync These are special photographic techniques that have long been used for many years by both... Still photography \| Tony White X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009	Anemone City Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005
Tantalizing Tofo Four hundred and fifty kilometres north of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, and half an hour... Indian Ocean X-Ray Mag #31 - Sep 2009	Success Stories in Troubled Waters The race to save animal species from extinction is as important as ever before. There are... Conservation X-Ray Mag #25 - Sep 2008	Aftermath — at the nuclear playground During the period between 1945 and 1958, a total of 67 nuclear tests were conducted on... Central Pacific \| Cold war X-Ray Mag #29 - May 2009
Beluhas of the White Sea New Sea Farm Raises White Whales in the White Sea Whales X-Ray Mag #27 - Dec 2008	Working with Models Incredible as it may sound, one of the most difficult creatures to shoot under water is a... How to... \| Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007	Crystal River I once had a cat that approached me exactly like that. Coming right at me, top of the... Dive sites \| Manatees and Dugongs \| United States X-Ray Mag #30 - Jul 2009
Bob Evans Our talks with Bob Evans were just full of good ole plain fun, with lots of laughs and... Profiles X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007	North Sulawesi unplugged I can’t help likening this island to a chromosome. It’s contorted shape not only looks... AustralAsia X-Ray Mag #24 - Jul 2008	Freediving with Tiger sharks Just their name, their size, and their menacing looks can evoke feelings of terror, fear... Feature \| Freediving \| Sharks X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
Socorro Located 386km (250 miles) southwest of the tip of Baja California and over 720km (446... South America X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007	Amos Nachoum Amos Nachoum, world acclaimed wildlife photographer is the recipient of numerous... Profiles X-Ray Mag #04 - Apr 2005	Guadaloupe's Great White Sharks My first shark appeared head-on in the distance slowly swaying from side to side. With... Feature \| Sharks X-Ray Mag #09 - Feb 2006
Icediving in the White sea The White Sea has sublime water clarity. It forms indescribably beautiful ice and... Russia \| Feature X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005	Black & White Even in the digital age, black and white photographs are still viewed as art. In this... Kurt Amsler X-Ray Mag #24 - Jul 2008	Carlos Hiller - painter of ocean light “When I am diving or just snorkelling, all I have in mind is the marine environment, the... Portfolio X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006
Bailout on a rebreather Bailing out to Open Circuit is like falling in the snow when you are learning to ski. It’... Cedric Verdier \| Rebreathers X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007	Solo or not? When divers run out of gas in open water it can only be down to two possible explanations... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005	Creatures of Cabliao After a two-hour car ride and an hour boat travel, I finally reached my destinationâ€”... South East Asia X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005
Pay & Play The ocean has been regarded as a global commons whose resources are inexhaustible and... Conservation X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008	Golden Dolphin Moscow 2007 Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... Reviews X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007	Cameras and Housings Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... How to... X-Ray Mag #06 - Aug 2005
Hans Hass Many, many divers, underwater photographers and filmmakers, when asked about the origin... Profiles X-Ray Mag #24 - Jul 2008	Drysuits All the questions about drysuits you always wanted to know the answer to but never dared... How to... X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006	Why shoot video? Quisque molestie. Praesent massa magna, dapibus id, euismod vitae, aliquet in, orci.... X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007
Do you need to put on weight? Regardless of the type of dive, shallow non-deco recreational dive or the 120 metre deep... Leigh Cunningham X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005	Ana Bikic Originally from Argentina, artist and scuba diver Ana Bikic believes that art should play...