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 is an argument to b...
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 in each exhibit sma...
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 to specialize and w...
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 everyone, in their early ...
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 as the lead singer o...
RogerFeb 73 minThe Age of EnlightenmentGalileo. Chapman. Caravaggio. Mapplethorpe. Einstein. Rushdie. Persecuted geniuses. We'd all like to think we're geniuses; that we already know all the ...
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 level what they lov...
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 asked about what wou...
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 the additional risk ...
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 it's a little deep...
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 an attack of gout in ...
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 configuration for all envir...
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 teaching anyone to d...
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 people (and therefo...
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 incompetence." (Pl...
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 A little less than ...
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 another. As you gain pr...
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 lives the fatal flaw i...
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 beaten track that even...
RogerJul 19, 20193 minFuck the InternetSeriously, though. Fuck the internet. None of us actually like it, but we're all completely goddamned addicted aren't we? We all talk about how much we shou...
