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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Helga and the Weight Debate
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How much weight should a diver use? How much is too much or too little to maintain proper posture, balance and air consumption? How do you adjust for a new wetsuit? Simon Pridmore discusses weight issues and offers tips and advice.
In-water Recompression: Good or Bad Idea
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Divers at decostop. Is in-water recompression a reasonable treatment of DCI if in a bind?
Say you are in some far-flung location where it will take quite some time to get to any recompression chamber. What do you do if you get decompression sickness? Get back in the water and recompress?
Turning Tek
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Andrey Bizyukin, Larry Cohen and Olga Torrey
Technical diver on wreck
Once considered an extreme activity reserved only for a fringe set of explorers and adventurers, technical diving has grown in popularity since the ‘90s and has become mainstream. However, technical diving is not for everyone. Aside from an advanced skill set, it also requires a certain mindset. How do you know if you have got it? Simon Pridmore offers insights into what makes a good technical diver.
Announcing Operation CCR 2023 – THE CCR event on Bonaire
In 2023, Your Buddies on Bonaire are back with a new edition of Operation CCR.
Utö Mines: Exploring 150-year-old Mines in Sweden
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Anders Etander
Diver places a cookie at an intersection to show the way out, at a water depth of 74m in Stjernheim’s shaft. Photo by Anders Etander
The desire for adventure lies in wait and entices us… On Utö, there was an unexplored mine system. Follow Anders Etander down into the darkness, where the “In Water Under Land” exploration group had the privilege of diving in a place that has been untouched for 150 years.
All the Trimmings: Tips to Improve Your Efficiency in Water with Good Trim
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Illustrations by Francesco Cameli
With good trim, divers are more efficient and can stay longer and safer underwater.
Trim is a misunderstood, and often poorly rectified, scuba skill. In our scuba journey, trim is something that we may or may not encounter or discuss, unless we get into technical diving or more advanced recreational diving. Francesco Cameli offers insight and advice in how to improve your trim and increase your efficiency in the water.
Buddy Dive Resort looks back on a great 11th edition of Bonaire TeK
During the most significant technical diving event in the Caribbean, our guests enjoyed demos and tryouts with the newest equipment, presentations from renowned names in the industry, and lots of exciting and fun tec dives.
Rebreather Forum 4 to be held on Malta in April
The purpose of the scientific and trade-only meeting is to advance the diving community’s state of knowledge regarding rebreather technology and its uses, with the goal of improving rebreather diving safety and performance. Proceedings of the meeting will be published and made publicly available.
Do What You Teach and Teach What You Do
(NASA Johnson / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Very often, you will come across examples in scuba education where what is taught does not match up with what divers do in real life. Mark Powell provides insights for new divers and tips for dive instructors.
Thermal stress
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Andrey Bizyukin
A rapid chilling of superficial skeletal muscles (conductive cooling) creates a crippling weakening.
Thermal issues affect the comfort, performance and decompression stress experienced by divers. The impact varies with the timing, direction and magnitude of the thermal stress. Thermal protection can be provided by a variety of passive and active systems. Active systems should be used with particular care since they can markedly alter inert gas exchange and decompression risk.