Technical Scuba Diving
Intro After Dive 8 in which I had Lauren literally lay down on the Yukon in order to get a point of reference for the photos for the model, I was ready to just give up when that didn't work. I'm not sure what happened with Dive 9 but I think it was so disappointing [...]
Background It is getting to be that time of year where I start writing the posts for dives that I did during the year but never had time to document. I recently saw the articles about the team that found the Skyraider off the coast of Florida (nice job!) and I reminded me about the [...]
Intro The lyrics from the Bob Dylan song All Along the Watchtower -- made famous by Jimi Hendrix -- echoed through my brain as I sat motionless and breathing slowly in between two other divers in a small, cramped, claustrophobic, dark, and completely silted out space deep within the IJN Sata wreck. "There must be [...]
Background A couple years ago, Tyler and finally found a helicopter wreck that we had been looking for. It took a lot of detective work and running down a lot of leads before we finally correctly identified it. After we published the story, we were contacted by one of the survivors of the crash, Donald [...]
Background We had some bad weather days and knew we could not dive the Britannic. However, there was one day that the weather was "iffy" and a dive on the Britannic was a "hard no" but we did have the opportunity to dive the Patris. Ben, Justin, and I all wanted to see and dive [...]
Background The S/S Burdigala is one of three wrecks (currently) in the Kea Underwater Historic Park. Normally, divers that want to dive the Britannic first dive the Patris, then the Burdigala, then the Britannic. Logically, some people think of the Burdigala as a "work up" or "warm up" dive. However, that is simply not the [...]
Background The HMHS Britannic is, according to many, the pinnacle of wreck diving. I have always dreamt of diving the wreck but it was always "out of reach" for many different reasons. Until now. Some people have compared diving the Britannic to climbing the infamous Mt Everest. I would liken it more to scaling the [...]
NB 1: This post is probably only interesting to those who conduct deep rebreather dives OR anybody who just wants more information about how the rEvo rebreather works. NB2: Most rebreather divers should never need to do this. Please don't modify your system unless you know how (and why). I'm supplying this for any rEvo [...]
I've been pretty busy and haven't posted much lately but I have a ton of updates I'll be working on getting posted. The first is a quick announcement that I will be co-presenting at the annual Dive Equipment & Marketing Association (DEMA) show this year in New Orleans. This presentation should be quite interesting.... The [...]
Intro The Nagato played a pivotal role in World War II and she will forever be inextricably tied to the US entry into the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Given her place in history, she has been on my "to-do" list of wreck dives for as long as I can remember. There is [...]
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