South West Technical Diving Blog

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...

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...

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....

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. 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 -...

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...

Skills are the foundation of safe and enjoyable diving and the building blocks of all diving certifications. The comment here is not that learning skills is a waste of time, but, learn them from the wrong instructor, and you will have to re-do them completely for them...

There's a good few articles on dive fitness out there, though I'd take issue with the focus of many of them. They focus purely on the physical, and mostly in very general and incorrect ways. Being fit means that you are "Fit for the task or purpose intended" it's far...

I was recently given this picture, signed by the original actor who player Darth Vader, by one of my students, it's awesome. Why? Well I'm a bit of a Star Wars fan and a lot of a geek anyway, but also there's a little sub culture in technical diving, especially cave...

Over the years I've had the privilege of being involved in some fantastic teams, sometimes in a leadership role, sometimes a advisor helping form a great team and in others as a team member. These teams have been engaged in pursuing objectives in sport, from...