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Introduction to Sidemount Diving Have you ever seen divers with tanks clipped neatly along their sides instead of strapped to their back? If yes, you’ve probably come across sidemount diving. Once used exclusively by cave explorers, sidemount diving has become increasingly popular among recreational divers who want redundancy, flexibility, safety and comfort, both underwater and […]

SCUBA diving is often described as peaceful escape into the beautiful underwater world. But this amazing underwater environment can also be very dangerous for us humans, as we are not designed to live underwater. One of the greatest dangerous divers can face underwater is not a shark, as often presented, or perhaps equipment failure, the […]

What are the closed-circuit rebreathers, and why we would use them? Rebreathers, not so long ago, were used only by military and perhaps some scientists. Today rebreathers are getting more popular every day. They found their way not only to technical diving but recreational diving too, and there are many recreational SCUBA divers that use […]

Human element is becoming very important topic these days in SCUBA diving world, especially in technical diving and rebreather diving. With high helium prices deep diving on open circuit is becoming part of the history, and for mixed gases diving rebreathers are used almost exclusively. But rebreathers are not here only for technical divers. Rebreather […]

What is D.I.R. in scuba diving? Have you even come across that term? D.I.R. or Doing it Right is a holistic approach to SCUBA diving. D.I.R. has been developed over the 90’s in the US, during Florida’s cave exploration done by Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP), but bases of D.I.R. can be found in the […]

Diving on Nitrox used to be very “technical” not so long ago. Now days nitrox is available in almost every dive centre around the world, and scuba diving agencies offer nitrox as speciality course to any certified open water scuba diver. But why Nitrox? Diving on nitrox gives us opportunity to stay longer at depth […]

How would you go about planning a technical dive? Have you ever planned a proper technical dive? Well, if you are a certified technical diver for sure you would’ve done it at least during your technical diving courses, but if you are still not a certified technical diver and you haven’t done the panning yet […]

Technical diving. What is technical diving, a term commonly used these days by many scuba divers? But not many understand what technical diving actually is. So, what is technical diving? Well, it is probably easier to explain what is not technical diving than what it is. Not that long ago, diving on Nitrox was considered […]