Category Archives: Scuba Training

The book, Scuba Diving Safety, by Dan Orr and Eric Douglas has gotten positive attention recently and Best Publishing Company has decided to distribute it to the diving community. The book was originally published by Human Kinetics, but wasn’t well marketed to the diving community. You can now buy the book today from Best Publishing…

Rescue Training Revisited During my first Florida Lobster mini-season as a divemaster on a dive boat many moons ago, we had three rescues the first day. Oh Boy! Did that open my eyes to the reality of unprepared divers, and to the importance of having a solid foundation of rescue skills. I now live in…

Healthy shoulders are vital to a positive scuba diving experience. The mobility of the shoulder joint exceeds every other joint in the human body. It enables divers to reach behind, under, around, above and beyond in nearly unlimited directions and rotation. Consequently, by design the shoulder joint and its musculature are highly susceptible to injury…

Two years ago, PADI's professional membership quarterly, The Undersea Journal, published an article describing a non-traditional approach to scuba instruction, one that introduced skills to students in a horizontal posture while neutrally buoyant rather than anchored to the floor of a pool on the knees.1 The approach focused on buoyancy from the earliest stages and…

"Just another cave training story, enjoy" - Luca I will never forget the first time the cave went dark. We were at Owl's hole, a beautiful cenote not too far from the beach. A long steel ladder was the only way in and out of the crystal-clear blue pond sitting at its bottom. We were…

Originally published at JohnChatterton.com My friend Nick called me up the other day and told me about how he was out diving on the Hydro, and had a serious issue with narcosis? The Hydro Atlantic is a beautiful local wreck, 180′ to the sand, but only about 130′ to the main deck. Nick is a…

This exercise emulates the fin-kick swimming of both dolphins and divers. Exercising at the beach has its benefits! The sea brought us a gift during our Sunday evening walk at Tamarack Beach in Carlsbad. A small Bottlenose dolphin (perhaps 4 feet in length) became caught in the surf. We came upon it rolling in and…