Le voyage d'une vie
IN 2018 AND 2019, MY HUSBAND AND I traveled to 50 locations in 35 countries over 14 continuous months, spending more than 250 hours underwater to research a dive travel guidebook for National Geographic.
Alert Diver Issue : Q4 2022
Confessions d'un plongeur Yahoo
A COMMERCIAL DIVER FRIEND TOLD ME YEARS AGO that people like me — recreational divers who do commercial diving work — are often referred to as yahoos.
I was always comfortable underwater and, at 78 years old, still am.
Pratiquer les compétences essentielles
Travailler comme second sur des bateaux de plongée au cours des 22 dernières années m'a permis d'assister à de nombreuses situations intéressantes. Lorsque je donne des cours de plongée, j'utilise une situation particulière pour démontrer l'importance d'entretenir ses compétences par une pratique régulière.
Après l'accident
Le fait d'être impliqué dans un événement traumatisant peut avoir des répercussions sur tout le monde : les professionnels de la plongée ou les plongeurs sauveteurs qui effectuent un sauvetage, les prestataires non professionnels qui aident à la réanimation cardio-pulmonaire et aux premiers secours, ainsi que les compagnons de plongée ou les spectateurs.
Ai-je besoin d'oxygène de qualité médicale ?
DAN INTRODUCED THE FIRST standardized emergency oxygen course for divers as lay providers in 1991. More people trained in oxygen delivery means that providers in dive locations worldwide need to have emergency oxygen units available. Obtaining oxygen refills, however, is an ongoing problem …
Permettre aux plongeurs de s'adapter
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, you make lemonade, as the saying goes. Such was the case for Jen Overturf. She suffered a spinal injury at her sixth thoracic vertebra from a dirt-biking accident in 2003 that left her paralyzed from the waist down. After the accident …
Île Cocos
“Pura vida!” our dive guide, Sergio, exclaimed with a relaxed smile. Eight dive buddies, Sergio, and I just had an incredible experience: A 35-foot-long whale shark swam a few feet over our heads at one of the better-known dive sites at Cocos Island, Costa Rica. It silently came and went, seemingly carefree, like a giant spotted apparition sliding out of sight into the deep blue.
Plongeurs démonstrateurs
La plupart des gens connaissent l'importance historique du jour J, ce jour tristement célèbre où les forces alliées ont débarqué sur les côtes de l'Europe occidentale le 6 juin 1944.
Few people, however, know the story of the men who went into these enemy waters before them. Armed with nothing but a mask, fins, and a knife …
Fakfak
Just before sunrise I make a cup of strong Indonesian tea and feel the familiar rush of anticipation that always builds when I dive where no one else has. From the liveaboard’s top deck I squint at a string of islands— just green dots from here — that stretch offshore from the Fakfak Regency …
Le dernier voyage
IT IS MAY 1940, AND GERMANY HAS BEEN AT WAR WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM for more than eight months. Tensions are high across western Europe. It appears inevitable that Italy, under the fascist government of Benito Mussolini, will enter the war aligned with Germany. In Naples, Capt. Lorenzo Muiesan of Italy’s SS Umbria, a maritime […]
