I was diving with my wife, Kristy Hiltz, in remote Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. We had taken all the necessary precautions and dived according to our computers. On what turned out to be our last dive, we sat on a rock ledge at 70 feet for 15 to 20 minutes and then made a slow ascent, completing a full safety stop.
It was 2004, the dawn of digital photography, and I was conflicted about whether to shoot film or digital. I had brought housings for both cameras with me to Thailand. Carrying two housings on a dive was ponderous, but I could manage it if I didn’t take two sets of strobes. My solution was to rig both housings with wet connectors called EO pigtails, which went into the regular sync socket, allowing me to connect and disconnect my strobes underwater.
I am grateful for the safety information DAN publishes, their recommendations for dive medicine physicians, and the peace of mind their insurance coverage provides.
Il y a environ 12 ans, deux opérateurs de plongée commerciale ont commencé à proposer aux plongeurs aventureux de plonger dans les eaux noires au large des côtes de Floride. Depuis lors, la plongée en eaux noires est devenue une activité incontournable dans la communauté des plongeurs de Palm Beach et j'ai eu la chance d'effectuer plus de 1’000 plongées de ce type sans incident.
Je souscris toujours une assurance voyage DAN pour mes voyages à l’étranger, ce qui me procure une tranquillité d’esprit au cas où un imprévu surviendrait. Il s’agit d’un paiement initial modeste, basé sur le coût total du voyage et votre âge, alors j’ai envisagé de ne pas la prendre pour un voyage à Raja Ampat, car j’ai déjà fait de nombreux voyages sans jamais avoir eu à déposer de réclamation. Je suis heureux d’avoir finalement fait le bon choix.
I have been a diver for about 35 years and a dive instructor for about 30 years. Some instructor friends and I run the Buzos del CAE and Paraná Divers […]
On a sun-drenched afternoon in the Bahamas, my friends and I sailed out for what we thought would be a routine spearfishing trip. We anchored off the remote southern tip of Abaco, between Sandy Point and Hole in the Wall, and found ourselves alone in the blue-green expanse. As we freedived beneath its surface, the clear water was alive with groupers, cubera snappers, and reef sharks.
