Diving
Dive Computers and Algorithms: What They Cannot Know About You
A dive computer tracks pressure and time with precision, but the model behind it cannot see the diver wearing it. Here is what that gap actually means.
Mar 19, 2026
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Diving
The 2026 Dive Computer Question Is Not Which Screen. It Is Whose Algorithm You Trust
Shearwater, Garmin and Suunto now sell wrist computers that look broadly alike and cost between 760 and 1,800 dollars. What separates them is the decompression model, the transmitter, and what you are really paying for.
Aug 18, 2026
Diving
The Safety Stop: What Those Three Minutes Are Actually Doing
Three minutes at five metres is drilled into every diver and explained to almost none of them. It is not decompression, it is not required, and skipping it is not the emergency people assume.
Aug 9, 2026
Diving
Nitrox Buys You Bottom Time and Costs You Depth, and It Will Not Make You Less Tired
Enriched air extends no-decompression limits at recreational depths by reducing the nitrogen you take on. It also imposes a hard ceiling on how deep you can take it, and the claim about post-dive fatigue has never held up.
Sep 5, 2026
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NAUI: The Agency That Lets the Instructor Decide
Older than PADI, structured as a non-profit membership association, and built on a principle almost nobody else uses: the instructor may exceed the standards, and is expected to.
Aug 12, 2026
Diving
Is Scuba Diving Safe? A Beginner's Honest Answer
Scuba has real hazards, but recreational diving within training and conditions is a managed-risk activity, not the extreme gamble suggested by rare accident headlines.
Jul 25, 2026
Diving
Most Divers Who Cannot See Solve It the One Way an Eye Doctor Would Not
Glasses do not fit under a mask, so the default answer is contact lenses. Eighty-five per cent of cases of a rare blinding corneal infection occurred in lens wearers who swam or dived in them, and there is a better option most divers never price.
Aug 20, 2026
Diving
Two Technical Divers Die at Lake Constance After 80m Ascent
A woman and her partner, both long-serving members of the European technical community, did not survive an emergency ascent near Ueberlingen on 2 August. The cause is still unknown.
Aug 5, 2026
Diving
Solo Diving Is Either Reckless or Honest, Depending on What You Think a Buddy Actually Does
Two agencies now certify divers to dive alone, with redundant gas and a long list of prerequisites. The case for it rests on an uncomfortable observation about how often the buddy system already fails in practice.
Sep 5, 2026
Diving
One Company Now Owns Aqualung, Apeks, Mares, rEvo and a Training Agency
HEAD rescued Aqualung out of receivership with a 50 million euro package. The result is a single group holding four of diving's best known equipment names and SSI, the agency that certifies divers to use them.
Aug 18, 2026
Diving
PADI, Explained Properly: What the Standards Require and What They Do Not
The world's largest training agency is also the most argued about. Setting the snobbery aside, here is what a PADI course actually mandates, where the flexibility sits, and what the card does not cover.
Aug 12, 2026
