The "D" stands for 'delayed', and it's ALWAYS better to wait until the end to pop that sausage. Wait... what?!? Sorry for the catfishing there, but this is about your SMB, or Surface Marker Buoy, and what you've actually been diving with, which has a giant D in front of it. There's some terminological brain constipation in the dive industry regarding two very different pieces of equipment: an SMB, and…
START is the acronym, nay mantra for every decompression and beyond diver. It is supposed to be a brain trigger to help remember the key steps to follow before departing on a deeper or more complex dive. START stands for; S-drills, Team, Air, Route, and Tables. While it’s an important part of technical diving, I’m not a fan, but only because it’s out of order!Let me break down START…
Last weekend I was coming up out of a quick 40 minute dive when a Divemaster candidate from another shop quipped, “I thought tech divers were supposed to stay down longer!” I cringed and blew it off on the outside, but deep inside I churned.Time does NOT make you a tech diver. If not time, then what? There are three things which put a diver into the tech category,…
If I knew then what I know now. But maybe, possibly, this life wasn’t ready for me.
