In many basic Open Water scuba courses, divers are taught vertical body position for ascents and descents. While there are some benefits to this technique, a horizontal body position is safer, more effective, and much easier to execute.
Body Position
The prone body position, preferred while diving, is also the preferred body position for ascents and [...]
While backmount cave divers have mostly adopted the Hogarthian gear configuration, sidemount divers’ kit remain very individualistic. Without commercially available units, each sidemount diver built rigs based on different levels of knowledge and experience, different environmental challenges, different goals, and different ideas on how best to realize them.
In the past, many of the pioneering [...]
Cave divers and technical divers extensively use reels and lines. As such, we have standard signals to communicate these items.
“LINE”
This signal denotes a line. Depending on situation, can be the dive team’s line, the anchor line, or a side passage line.
“REEL”
This command can either be the object or an action, depending on context.
Usage [...]
In order to carry necessary scuba diving gear as a carry-on (as well as save a little weight from luggage), Jeanna and Brian of Frogkick Diving made a backpack for their backplate.
For the technical scuba diver, a backplate and pack makes a lot of sense. I saw Jeanna’s design while at the UTD Symposium [...]