RogerJul 37 minDetachment and Involvement: the Diver Must Have BothI've been involved with technical diving for about 15 years. Some people look at that and go, "Wow! Cool!" Plenty more snort and think, "...
RogerMar 2610 minGetting Things to Line Up Just RightI like sidemount. I talk a lot of shit about it. But I do like it. It can be comfortable and streamlined. It can be very flexible. There...
RogerFeb 243 minBullpenWhen it comes to teamwork there is a point of diminishing returns. While I was organizing dives at the Aquarium I tried to keep the teams...
RogerFeb 192 minThe Path of the RighteousI talk a lot of shit. Most instructors do. Most divers do. Hell, I suppose most all people do. We all find our little corner of the world...
RogerFeb 184 minGo Team, Go!Same ocean diving. That is frequently what I feel up against for the first few days of technical classes, the fact that very nearly every...
RogerFeb 154 minThere is always a cost.I have been thinking about a conversation I had with a friend some years ago. Before becoming a marine biologist he had spent many years ...
RogerFeb 73 minThe Age of EnlightenmentGalileo. Chapman. Caravaggio. Mapplethorpe. Einstein. Rushdie. Persecuted geniuses. We'd all like to think we're geniuses; that we a...
RogerJan 296 minJust a TrimHad a great conversation yesterday with someone about, among other things, the absolute importance of holding still. Ask any diver at any...
RogerJan 252 minThumbs UpGot an email this morning which makes the third instance of the same sort of conversation with people over the last few days. One friend ...
RogerJan 205 minThe Thin Gold LineI wish there were no such thing as cavern tours. I also wish there were no such thing as DSDs. I wish we lived in the sort of world that ...
RogerJan 1711 minDon't Trust Me**Reprinted from The Dive Bum 1/16/17** “Usually we don't do this dive with students.” “Just stick with me. You'll be fine.” “Now, I know...
RogerJan 134 minWipeoutTwo things to know going into this: - I have gout - I used to be really into cycling, especially mountain biking. Luckily I haven't had a...
RogerJan 122 minMy Dive Philosophy can Beat Up Your Dive Philosophy!How can instructors possibly train students on their knees?!?! My rebreather is better than yours. Sidemount is the absolute best configu...
RogerDec 14, 20193 minEver Get the Feeling You've Been CheatedEver get the feeling you've been cheated? By a dive class, I mean. Was it an instructor who had no idea what they were doing or business ...
RogerNov 23, 20194 minDon't be a DickDivers are dicks. I mean, not all divers. Most divers are pretty hip and with it. But divers are people and a strong enough subsection of...
RogerNov 18, 20194 minPumpkin EaterYou ever hear of the Peter Principle? The shortest possible version is thus: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of...
RogerSep 9, 20193 minTribal Warfare"We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too" - Some dumb, old pub song ...
RogerAug 5, 20194 minAnd I Would Have Gotten Away With It Too...Something funny happens to you on the "expert" side of the Dunning-Kruger curve and it has probably happened to you at some point or anot...
RogerJul 23, 20193 minYou Can Trust 'em, You Just Gotta Watch 'em a Little"Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that." - Saint Carlin In that quote li...
RogerJul 21, 20191 minYou Think You're So HardcoreI understand "hardcore" dives. I understand the appeal of the dives that "no one ever does." I understand the pull of stuff so off the be...
