Our checkout dive was easy, with a maximum depth of 75 feet for 50 minutes. The current was slight, and the visibility was spectacular — an ideal first dive. It closed with a nice, slow ascent and a three-minute safety stop. When we returned to the boat, I felt a sudden tingling in my right foot followed by a dull ache in my knee. I assumed the worst, thinking I had decompression sickness (DCS). When I reviewed the dive in my mind, however, that seemed impossible.
I HAVE BEEN A CERTIFIED DIVER since 1986 and have logged hundreds of recreational and technical dives. Since 2014 I have primarily been doing technical rebreather diving with a close group of experienced rebreather divers from Northern California. During the summer of 2019, our group visited Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Michigan […]
I WAS ON A TRIP TO TULAMBEN to dive the Liberty wreck for three days. The first day was recreational dives followed by two days of technical diving. I had a cold and sinusitis leading up to the trip, but the conditions had cleared up …
HAVING DONE THOUSANDS OF DIVES since I started in 1964, primarily off the coast of North Carolina, the shipwrecks and dive profiles there are familiar. Overall conditions couldn’t have been much better on this particular day — calm, clear seas with barely a current. We planned on two reverse profile decompression dives at an offshore […]
EN 2018 Y 2019, MI ESPOSO Y YO viajamos a 50 lugares en 35 países a lo largo de 14 meses ininterrumpidos y pasamos más de 250 horas bajo el agua para investigar una guía de viaje de buceo para National Geographic.
Tenía 50 años y me había postulado para ingresar a la facultad de derecho. Estaba esperando con gran ansiedad que me informaran si había sido aceptada, así que para distraerme decidí realizar un viaje de buceo a Granada. Después de un excelente primer día de buceo, el segundo día me levanté temprano con ganas de más. Preparé mi […]
