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Studying the effects of COVID – Here’s my experience as a diver
A few months ago, my partner Manuel Bustelo and I tested positive for COVID-19. We experienced quite strong symptoms, but fortunately only for a short period of...
11 May 2021
Laos Was Not Thailand
In Anatomy of the Laos Mine Rescue, Mikko Paasi walks us through a flooded gold mine, seven trapped men, five survivors, two missing men, failed pumps, low oxygen, rising water, collapse risk, and one underwater extraction that he refuses to call a clean success.
From there, the issue looks at capability, judgment, and consequence. Manthos Marras writes about becoming the world’s first paraplegic technical diving instructor-trainer. Brian Kakuk talks about Bahamian caves, conservation, and why the cave comes first. THE TALKS brings Samir Alhafith, John Kendall, Michael Barnette, and Barry McGill into a sharp discussion on wrecks, risk, ego, and documentation.
Read about all these stories and more in InDEPTH. Are you ready?
The PFO Question follows six divers through warning signs, decompression illness, diagnosis, and recovery. In Blueprint for Success, Jarrod Jablonski examines why meaningful growth requires discomfort—and why divers, instructors, leaders, and organizations must learn to distinguish productive challenge from unnecessary risk.
And, in a lighter tribute to the eternally fun spirit of Michael Menduno, Stratis Kas opens the door on a suspiciously mature dive van in The Annual InDEPTH Taxonomy of Dive Van Biology, a mostly fictional, slightly too-true story adapted from his upcoming book The Serious Art of Being Ridiculous: Technical Diving Stories from Inside the Tribe, coming December 2026.
