Safety
The Art of Being Found at Sea
A review of precautions and safety devices for divers Surfacing from a dive with no boat in sight can be a harrowing experience. This occasionally real...
Tim Blömeke teaches technical and recreational diving in Taiwan and the Philippines. He is also a freelance writer and translator, as well as a member of the editorial team of Alert Diver. He dives a Fathom CCR. For questions, comments, and inquiries, you can contact him via his blog page or on Instagram.
By the same author
A review of precautions and safety devices for divers Surfacing from a dive with no boat in sight can be a harrowing experience. This occasionally real...
Precautions and countermeasures to improve diver safety In the first part of this little series on carbon dioxide in diving, I shared a personal close-call story...
This is the second part of a three-part series on carbon dioxide, one of the most common contributors to diving emergencies. You can find part one...
This is the first part of a three-part series on carbon dioxide, a common contributor to diving emergencies. Parts two and three will be published in...
The idea for this blog post started out with a question that I had to solve for myself: When I'm using a rebreather in a...
Open-circuit and rebreather divers can be on the same team – to the benefit of both parties, as long as certain precautions are observed. With rebreathers...
Day three of Rebreather Forum 4 marked the end of the event, with the conference consensus, a presentation by DAN Europe founder and CEO Prof....
Unskilled and unaware of it – references to the Dunning-Kruger effect are popular in the dive community. However, the findings of the original research are...
The much-awaited first presentation in the morning was given by David Doolette on Advances in Decompression Theory and Practice. A very large subject area, he decided...
After many months of intense preparation, Rebreather Forum 4 in Malta is finally here. The event has gathered hundreds of stakeholders in the rebreather industry...
Saturday morning 5:45 am, the alarm rings. With a groan, Emily (loosely based on a real person) turns over in bed, fumbles for the off...
The double-ended bolt-snap carabiner (or double ender, in the lingo) is one of the tools in diving that you never knew you needed, until you...