Category Archives: Tips, Tricks, & Info

Vanishing Access to Emergency Hyperbarics

By Bill Lester, AEMT, DMT It’s something most divers take for granted. But you may have a harder time getting there than ever before. Your dive instructor, your certifying agency, and DAN (Divers Alert Network) have been preaching for years that if you think you might be suffering from DCS/DCI, you should get to a…

Plan Your Dive and Dive Your Plan

The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of SCUBA Diving In our first SCUBA diving class we were introduced to dive planning and taught to use our tables to calculate the no-decompression limits and avoid decompression sickness. We learned to determine in advance our maximum depth, bottom time, entry and exit points, and equipment…

Let Me Introduce You to Roy G. Biv

Important Knowledge for SCUBA Divers About how Light is Affected by Water Our old friend Roy G. Biv is a stranger to many but is quite well known by photographers, artists, scientists, and anybody involved in working with light and color. Roy G. Biv is an acronym that allows us to easily remember the colors…