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 […]
PADA TAHUN 2018 DAN 2019, SAYA DAN SUAMI SAYA melakukan perjalanan ke 50 lokasi di 35 negara selama 14 bulan berturut-turut, menghabiskan lebih dari 250 jam di bawah air untuk meneliti buku panduan perjalanan menyelam untuk National Geographic.
Saya berusia 50 tahun dan telah mendaftar ke sekolah hukum. Saya menunggu dengan cemas untuk mendengar apakah saya diterima, jadi untuk mengalihkan perhatian saya, saya memutuskan untuk mengambil [...]
Saat berjalan dari truk ke pintu masuk lokasi penyelaman di Bonaire, istri saya, Deborah, tersangkut di bawah akar dan kakinya terulur saat melepaskan diri. Saat jatuh ke tanah, dia berseru bahwa lututnya patah.
SAAT MENURUN PADA PENYELAMATAN KEDUA, saya berada di ketinggian sekitar 60 kaki ketika tiba-tiba saya mulai naik dengan cepat ke permukaan.
SUAMI SAYA, BARRY, DAN SAYA mendapatkan sertifikasi menyelam di Cozumel, Meksiko, pada tahun 1994, dan sejak saat itu menjadi salah satu tujuan favorit kami. Kami menghabiskan tiga minggu menyelam di sana pada musim panas 2001, mengikuti rutinitas kami berlari, berolahraga, dan menyelam dua kali sehari.
AFTER I SPENT ALMOST 20 HOURS in a hyperbaric chamber over five days, life there had grown tedious. The last 15 minutes, however, were not only exciting but highly instructive. I learned that if you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t touch anything or do anything without first asking permission.