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There was a fatality in Poland a couple of years ago during a seacraft demo. A diver ran it to 30m at max speed and back to the surface. Died of barotrauma.

Not only that but a lot of the meat from the fish that is kept is going to waste, especially in the more developed nations. Here in Croatia when you catch a fish you scale it, gut it and either cook it whole if it's small enough or cut it into stakes. The only things left are clean picked...

Was the regulator a rental? If it's not the mouthpiece or the diaphragm the second stage housing might be cracked. We barely managed to figure out where my reg was leaking because the crack was hidden and only leaked when torqued a bit. It sounds benign at first but if it surprises you and you...

I would say that at least a third of all ow students I had came to the dive centre (well ok, emailed more likely) and asked to do a PADI, they equated the PADI name with a scuba course. I'm not even a PADI instructor, and the dive centre had no affiliations with PADI. Even people who came to...

It's not a physical but a psychological skill, a 15m swim should be doable by a post covid lung cancer survivor that still smokes. You need to relax, the only thing that's stopping you from this is your own mental pressure. . To practice on dry land exhale fully and hold your breath, walk...

Neck weights are used in freediving along a rope as you want your centre of gravity to be as close to your head as possible. It's not useful for spearfishing. If you do want to try it make it with a snap buckle, bicycle tire inner tube and lead shot. When I'm fishing shallow with a lot of...

Unexpected failures are a must in any quality scuba instruction, usually done with cue cards and pre agreed signals. Shutting someones gas off, ripping their regulator out or rendering any of their gear inoperable is attempted murder.

I'm activily looking for instructors like that, I need a bully to motivate me to learn new things. If it's not your cup of tea why not just walk away an find one that suits you?

Find something to do, fiddle with your gear, ask to drive the boat, bring a ball of tangled twine and untangle it. I spend 60 hours on the water each week and if I'm not on my boat I still get sea sick.

I love having a right shoulder vent, not just for myself but it makes deflating runaway students and customers so much easier. It's also great for work dives since you spend most of your time vertical.

Impossible, the ferry ride lasts 2.30 hours and the first ferry arrives at 11.30 am, last one leaves at 6 pm during the summer. You would be late to arrive for the morning dive and probably late to return from the afternoon one. Surface is around 23C and bellow the thermocline drops down to...

I own a pathfinder. I need to change my molex connectors once a year, every time I do it I need to shorten the wiring, once I shorten it enough it would be a good idea to send it off to a service centre, but I guess I could also do that myself. A friend of mine was quoted 400 euros + shipping...

I'm just going to say that floating on the surface, fiddling with tanks in a strong current and waves, with a dsv or even worse a full bov in your mouth sucks and is a excellent way of getting seasick.

I know that ships over 30BT require a registered captain and engineer, but to what actual standards they are trained I have no idea. I know that normal crewmembers have a pay of around 40-50 euros per week + a cut of the tips, and that used to be a lot less. I doubt their training is done to...

The author notes that and limits the accidents to ship related ones, even if they do happen on ships carrying divers. The interesting thing when you start reading trough the analysis is how the Rea Sea accidents, especially fires were caught in time to stop them, just nobody did. I'm guessing...

Freediving fins in and around cages and loose lines are extremely annoying. I had a workmate who used only old red scubapro splitfins, the stiff version and I laughed at him until a overweight diver three times my age outswam me again and again. If any of the jet fin clones are putting to much...

Again, I personally believe that a lot of passenger ships have completely inadequate safety procedures, especially diving orientated ones. As someone who, from time to time, gets to drive a boat full of divers I know a part of why that is. Safety standards are expensive, and divers are cheap...

Using the news as a source for statistical analysis is problematic because it will only publish the outliers, the worst incidents. Using the data you derived from those outliers to compare against the data of the European Maritime Safety Agency or insurance providers is pointless, you are...

Page 10. Statistical analysis. "Due to these difficult circumstances in obtaining official information, a large number of accidents were probably not found. Therefore, the data that was found is not completely reliable." Page 50. First paragraph of the summary "For a statistical analysis...

Liveaboards (and their lack of common sense safety procedures) are a problem, but a study that uses inadequate data at best (I would not call it fraudulent until I actually find the study) can't be taken seriously.