In My Element: Discovering My Inner Freediver
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....
By fourth element | 10 minute read
ANGRY OR EFFECTIVE? The attitude of a young conservationist
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 separat...
By fourth element | 6 minute read
Deep archaeology and ‘biodegradable ROVs’
Matt Carter is the leading technical diving maritime archaeologist in Australasia, an International Fellow of the Explorers Club and a presenter on th...
By fourth element | 5 minute read
Will I be warm enough in this?
Will I be warm enough in this? It's the question we are asked most frequently at trade and consumer shows when we are showing our drysuit thermal prot...
By fourth element | 6 minute read
A Plastic Planet?
Saeed lives in Bournemouth, England, but is a frequent traveller to some of the world’s most prestigious dive sites. He believes photography is abou...
By fourth element | 5 minute read
May the Fourth be with you
It’s difficult to separate Doug Allan from the story of fourth element. He tested the first ever Xerotherm, almost by accident, after one of those m...
By fourth element | 3 minute read
The wetsuit recycled from the sea
Introducing the world's first neoprene-free wetsuit, recycled from the sea. Our award-winning neutrally buoyant wetsuit system moved from concept to r...
By fourth element | 3 minute read
Macro Magic
Mae Dorricott, marine biologist and winner of the 2017 OWUSS European Rolex Scholarship, brings us an insight into her macro photography trip to Lemba...
By fourth element | 7 minute read
1000 hours under the Earth
If Phil Short was a surfer, he’d be Kelly Slater. If he was a footballer, we’d talk about him like we do about David Beckham (he has the tattoos t...
By fourth element | 7 minute read
