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ll I want to hear this story.....are we to infer that because there is a lawsuit pending, you do not dare discuss any of this? Can't you start with the accident report and some facts? Then we could argue about what happened for many months, and you know how much divers love to do this!

Our next article will ALSO have some quotes from George Irvine about his feelings on the unfortunate trend toward "always" diving with perfect trim...something neither he nor Jarrod ever endorsed. When George used to dive with Dan all the time in the past, his primary kicking was flutter kick...

My husband (Dan Volker) had a discussion with Jarrod Jablonski, head of GUE about this, and will be including this in an article I will post in the very near future. The short version though, is that JJ does not want GUE people or anyone else to think that when diving 10 feet off the bottom in...

Dr Grobman is an amazing diving medicine doc, and he enjoys diving himself as one of his great loves..this plus his other specialty in sports medicine makes him uniquely qualified for doing the detective work that needs to be done...to avoid doing what other docs would just call an "Undeserved...

Dan just gave me a link to a PERFECT example of how to dolphin kick.... his friend Ron Smith...see first with no tank... then with scuba According to Dan, who used the Dol-Fins alot with Ron, you can kick almost the same way with good stiff freedive fins as you can with the Dol-fin...

Wow!!! What a great article on this "Surfer's Neck" link. Dan should speak with some of his GUE friends about doing an article on "surfer's neck" as it relates to diving for GUE people. Paddling a surfboard or frog kicking GUE style on an ocean dive, has so much in common at the area of your...

It was in fact a high tide, to high tide dive !! :) But to make it more understandable, if you look at the macro I shoot ( on my FB page), you typically find this life by slowly peering at what it "eats"....You get on top of a large hydroid forest ( looks kind of like a big grass lawn ) and you...

I am sort of an exaggeration of issues, no doubt. While our boat dives are only an hour each, I dive a few days each week at the BHB Marine Park, where the shallow macro area gives me dive durations between 3 hours and up to my longest ever at 6 hours, on a steel 100. This has always been diving...

At this point we need to be sure we are talking about the same thing....that the semantics does not defeat the discussion. Dan likes to swim at Suex Scooter speeds with big monster carbon fiber freedive fins, for an hour at a time. to do this, he needs to have his body in a flat horizontal trim...

As it happens, when you start looking into Cervical Stenosis.....pain between the shoulder blades which then spreads, is a primary way this presents.

HI Chilly, no my heart was checked, and is in good shape....I still do competitive cycling, so it better be :-)

Dan thinks that the GUE posture is quite unhealthy for many people because it causes the diver to hyper-extend the neck to be able to see in front of them. Clearly there are people that have so much neck mobility that it is a non-issue for their neck health..but in looking at populations of...

Then on the one hour dive, Sandra and I dive with the GUE flat horizontal dive trim…a superman position. This causes a serious hyper extension of the neck if you want to see where you are going. And lifting her heavy camera up to the boat crew on getting back aboard is also a big stress on the...

I read everything on DCS I had already read for years, and much more again. I chatted with the Duke Diving Medicine guys I know from Scubaboard, and chatted extensively with top tech diving and deco theory friends, Bill Mee and George Irvine. I wrote a paper on everything that seemed relevant...

This is an exact reprint of what I put on my Facebook page, detailing a Dive Incident I had in November. My husband, Dan Volker posted this on my page because we think this should be known by divers - it is very counterintuitive to much diver discussion on DCS.... (I have about 5000 FB friends...

Have had what appears to be skin bends a few times now, and would like to find : Either a person/company that will rent a Doppler device to a diver to use after some scuba dives at various depths and durations and safety stop durations....or, some links to doppler devices good for this purpose...

The truck the collectors used to transport fish between Palm Beach and Fort Piece daily....Of course they would use this for moving 7 fish per day... :-)

JIm Abernethy debunks the PR piece by Moody Gardens. This is awsome! This is Sandra Edwards, Dan Volker's wife posting this. Dan was the person that got the collectors out of the water Saturday morning, and began the sh*tstorm that is now raining down on Moody and Texas A&M. You can ask Dan...

Just saying that if you are diving in an area that will customarily have large sharks swimming nearby to you, it is stupid to ignore the potential for curiosity testing type bites....My friend Jim Abernethy says that in places like Tiger Beach, ANYTHING on the surface gets "test bitten" by tiger...

Not sure why people were discussing the use of bangsticks, when it is common knowledge that if a shark is too curious, all you need to do is keep your camera in between the shark and you...this also suggests the Dive guide or the late victim "could" have been better off with a large camera in...