Other diving related
Think about this scenario: You and 15 other divers on a liveaboard motor overnight to an isolated, uninhabited chain of islands. The following morning you pour a cup of coffee, step out on deck to salute the dawn and revel in some much-needed solitude. Big surprise! Unfortunately, the early morning light reveals a couple of … Read more
What a fabulous sport scuba diving is. Other sports mostly challenge my sanity, and their blatant inadequacies confirm diving as the superior sport. Take Motor Racing for example. Aren’t you glad I do not squirt you with Champagne on the dive deck after every successful dive? Few realize what this extravagant behaviour actually symbolizes. Squirters … Read more
Hi Doc, A mate and I have been meeting at the local pool each week to practice some static apnea, and my breath-hold time has steadily improved. Occasionally though, I have a week where I can’t even match the time I started with a couple of months ago. I realize there are many factors at … Read more
Be forewarned. There are no traces of my trademark dry humor to be found in this story and there’s no happy ending. It’s probably as close as I’ve come to my trip to Valhalla. In October of 1972 it happened like this: Rod Temple and Robbie McIlvaine were waiting for me when I drove up … Read more
Is diving the only past-time that attracts the opinionated Internet Warriors who are so ready to tell you you’re doing it wrong? I travel and dive extensively and it is so rare that I meet these type of people in person that when I do it’s worth posting a blog about it – and I … Read more
