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Diving Liverpool Bay shipwrecks
The sea around Merseyside’s coastline, which is littered with centuries of shipwrecks, is a haven for wildlife.
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The hidden world of police UK divers
Underwater search teams are a familiar sight during major police investigations. But what is it like to make a living probing the country’s murkiest recesses?
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Indonesia – Bunaken Island – Diving in Two Fish Divers
A diving report for our German speeaking readers from Eva-Maria Krieger.
Wir sind gerade aus Indonesien zurückgekommen und waren Mitte März eine komplette Woche bei den Two Fish Divers, einer englischen PADI Tauchbasis, auf Bunaken Island.
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Die Tauchplätze um Bunaken und Siladen herum sind allesamt einzigartig! Eine überwältigende Vielfalt an Fischen und Korallen, die Riffe sind intakt....
Nina Preisner breaks world record in 159.8m (525ft) dive to wrecked cargo ship
A Briton who gave up her job as a lawyer to pursue a career in watersports has claimed the record for the world’s deepest dive on to a wreck by a woman.
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Japan’s Ama Women Divers
SHIRAHAMA, Japan. Japan’s legendary ama women shellfish divers, immortalised on stamps and in the 1967 James Bond film “You Only Live Twice”, have grown older and their numbers have declined but they still enjoy their work and earn enough to carry on.
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Assessing Fitness to Return to Diving after Decompression Illness
The DMAC in the UK, (The Diving Medical Advisory Committee) has the following “Guidance”™ concerning the return to diving of commercial divers who have had decompression illness. These have not been updated since 1994, but appear valid for divers now. The main difference between commercial divers and sport divers is the multiday, multidive aspect of recreational diving and the ability...
Oxygen chambers can ease cystitis
Spending time in a pressurised oxygen chamber can significantly reduce the symptoms of chronic cystitis.
In a clinical trial, the treatment reduced symptoms – which include bladder irritation and pelvic tenderness – by about a third in some cases, and the effects were long-lasting.
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The last of a diving breed
In the old days of brass helmets and dangerous depths, Phil Fatolitis was a model of macho. Now he’s a model of longevity.
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Beau’s lines on fingernails after deep saturation dives
H.Schwartz of the Hyperbaric Treatment Center at the University of Hawaii reports an interesting finding in the fingernails of saturation divers in a study done in the NEDU at Panama City Florida, USA.
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