Surviving Lockdown
Huge thanks to x-ray magazine for publishing this article wot I wrote! 🙂
Covid19 Dive Centre Guidelines
Covid19 is a concern for all as we return to diving and there are many 'opinions' on best practice. We will be following the DAN and UK/Ireland Diving safety group guidelines as per the attached pdf for your protection and ours. Please do email with any...
What’s in your pockets
Key Principles Generally speaking if we are diving tech we dive dry or at least with tech shorts over a wetsuit so we have a left and right pocket. In Sidemount we have a nice pouch or bumbag/fanny pack depending on which side of the Atlantic you are on! But...
Setting up an Emergency SMB
Marking up an Emergency SMB There is a standard protocol in tech diving for certain DSMB colours to be used for notifying surface support (land or shore based) of whether life is peachy or if help is needed. In Europe Orange /Red is good and Yellow means...
2017 Dive Ireland International Expo Promo
Here is just a very small taste of what South West Tech got up to in 2016. We hope you enjoy watching this as much as we enjoyed being there - especially with our clients and students who make it so much fun. We look forward to meeting you all at the Dive show in...
What about Tech?
Thinking about Technical Diving or wondering what technical diving techniques might offer your club diving? I started technical diving purely to stay longer under water, with absolutely no intentions of going deeper, certainly no intention of going into caves or deep...
Reaching the heights versus plunging the depths – Parallels in psychological factors in Technical Diving and the Olympics
Achieving the Olympic dream is often described as the culmination of four years or more of hard work, sacrifice, commitment and dedication. To be an Olympian there will be three components that must be in present in each competitor before the dream can be achieved....
Why go tech? Motivations behind technical diving
In this essay, sports psychologist and technical diver Matt Jevon draws some parallels between the sport of technical diving and the sport of motorcycle racing, including attitudes and behaviors in regards to the inherent dangers and risks, sharing insights into our...
Analysis and Reflection as Learning Tools
Analysis and reflection as learning tools. The ignoring by celebration of successes and the paralysis paradigm of failure If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same Yours is the world and everything that's in it..... If -...
How to choose your technical diving instructor
With thanks and acknowledgement to Rich Walker at Wreck and Cave (www.wreckandcave.co.uk) for the original article, paraphrased here…. Technical Training is not like recreational dive training. Instructors who teach recreationally are excellent at the role and often...