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My next dive trip is taking me across the world. Whenever I cross time zones, I suffer relatively severe jet lag, which affects my ability...
My next dive trip is taking me across the world. Whenever I cross time zones, I suffer relatively severe jet lag, which affects my ability...
The study of data collected in the first research campaign of DAN Europeâs Diving Safety Laboratory (DSL) âFlying bubblesâ project has concluded. The results are...
As published in past articles of Alert Diver, microbes from different sources, transmitted via diving equipment, can be a true threat to scuba divers. In fact,...
Question: On a recent dive trip, my buddies and I dived using 30 percent nitrox. Beyond our maximum operating depth was a big turtle that...
Diving grants us a great freedom to explore. It offers the opportunity to experience what most people see only on film. As terrestrial creatures, we...
Hold your breath: DAN Europe received a prestigious recognition for their work in the field of apnea diving, thanks to valid findings in the correlated...
It’s winter; and still a handful of European divers continue diving regardless of the cold temperatures that have enveloped Europe. You get out of the...
The DiversOn his first-ever night dive, Sam, an uncertified and inexperienced diver with fewer than 15 lifetime dives, descended to catch lobsters with two other...
Early in dive training, students learn that there are three elements involved in buoyancy control: the buoyancy compensator (BC), weights and lung volume. Although most...
Bubbles that make divers bent or cause the so-called Decompression Sickness (DCS) are known by any diver in the world. The gas in question is...
Beyond recreational depths, the “technical” diving community pushes the frontier of “recreational” diving steadily to deeper and less-forgiving environments.Rebreathers, once almost exclusively used by the...
It was dinner time at Divetech. As I walked past the kitchen, I noticed two red lights blinking on the side of the oven. Before...