In 1990 I had a story published in Michael Menduno’s aquaCorp Journal. Michael is a pioneer of Technical Diving for sports divers, and is credited with coining the term “Technical Diving” or “Tec Diving”. We all know what the term means now, but it was a giant leap at the time to get divers from … Read more
The confidence of youth is wonderful. We’ve all been there, but I, for one, must have been insufferable! It was Sir Isaac Newton who said, towards the end of his illustrious career, that he felt he had been merely playing on the seashore when the great ocean of discovery lay before him. As we get … Read more
Now that you are probably thinking of your next dive trip, have you considered a liveaboard dive boat? What is the point of being trapped on a boat for a week or more? Isn’t it a bit boring? Not if you are a keen diver because a liveaboard dive boat is able to visit dive … Read more
If there is anything wrong with the leisure diving industry, it’s the way the owners of one business will rejoice when another suffers some sort of disaster. It’s as if their success is relative to the failure of another. Nobody seems to consider that “there, but for the grace of God go I,” nor that … Read more
If, in a future moment of weakness, I were to ever suggest that I had seen it all in diving, please slap me and bring me back to earth. I should know by now that divers are capable of the most extraordinary behavior that can defy logic, nature, and occasionally the laws of physics. Some … Read more
