Dive Lights: An Equipment Guide for Beginners, With Notes for Experienced Divers
A clear way to choose, carry, and care for an underwater light
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Technical Diving
The Scuba Industry Needs Honesty: Training, Mentorship, and Meaning
As 2025 comes to a close, I want to speak directly to people in the dive industry under 40.
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Beyond the Limit: A Roadmap to the Technical Diving Path
For most divers, the sea is explored within clear limits. Depth stays within recreational ranges, dives happen in daylight, and a direct ascent to the surface is always possible. Equipment is simple, and gas planning is built around one cylinder of air or Nitrox.
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Understanding Closed-Circuit Rebreathers for Divers
Diving technology has advanced significantly over the years, and closed-circuit rebreathers (CCR) are one of the most important innovations for scuba divers. Unlike traditional scuba equipment, rebreathers recycle the gas a diver breathes. This system removes carbon dioxide, adds oxygen, and controls oxygen levels in a looped circuit.
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Lead Safety for Divers: Dangers, Precautions
Lead weights are a basic tool in scuba diving. They help divers control buoyancy and trim, and they make many dives possible. But lead also brings real safety and environmental concerns. These concerns are not only for dive professionals. They also matter for anyone who sets up gear at home, on a boat, or at a training site.
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Night Diving: Seeing the Ocean Reset After Dark
Night diving changes how you read a reef. A site you know well in daylight becomes different after sunset. The shapes are the same, but the activity is not
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All You Need to Know to Dive With Contact Lenses
Many beginner divers who wear contact lenses feel nervous about mask skills. They worry that if they remove the mask, they will lose a lens. The question is simple: is there any real risk when you dive with contact lenses?
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Britannic Artifacts Recovered: First Items Raised From Titanic’s Sister Ship Since 1916
Divers have recovered artifacts from the wreck of the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic, for the first time since it sank in 1916. The recovery was announced by Greece’s Culture Ministry in mid-September 2025, after a weeklong deep-diving operation carried out in May.
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