All divers can relate to those terrifying moments underwater during the first few years of their diving careers, feeling helpless and completely out of control.
Our wetnotes section is full of stories from above and below the sea, with many contributions from valuable members of the diving community and beyond. We bring you the latest news on what really matters to you, and to us.
This week, we were at TekCamp at Vobster Quay in the UK - a project we helped to launch seven years ago which won the Innovation Award from the Eurotek Diving Conference.
Dr Eugenie Clark was a pioneering marine scientist and a leading authority on sharks, devoting her life to understanding their behaviour and promoting shark conservation.
Find out where we’re going to be exhibiting for the rest of this year and into 2019, we’d love to see you there!
Philip Christoff is a technical and recreational diving instructor through TDI and SSI working out of Manta Dive on Gili Trawangan, Lombok/Bali region in Indonesia. His passion is to bring technical diving to a younger, more diverse audience.
We want you to get the most out of your fourth element wetsuit and correctly donning it can make a big difference to the life of your garment. We’ve put together a quick guide on how to get into your suit without causing damage.
Whether we are diving to the deepest depths, crashing through the waves or relaxing in the sun, we all want swimwear that we can trust to fit, stay in place and feel secure.
Zale Parry is a diving pioneer. She learnt to dive in 1940 using one of the first imported Aqualungs and went on to inspire countless women and men to follow in her wake.
Gemma Smith is one of the best known divers in the UK, and further afield. A leading technical diver and explorer, she worked on several groundbreaking projects, including the Antikythera Project in the Mediterranean with divers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
I became fascinated with freediving last year while reporting on Deja Blue, the international freediving competition held in Grand Cayman each year by Performance Freediving International (PFI), the oldest freediving training agency in North America.
A reoccurring thought occupies my mind when I’m walking through the fish market. There are dead sharks to the left of me, and their fins are separated and sitting in piles around me. Maggots have begun to crawl out of the sewers and blood is everywhere.
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