I 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...

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 ...

Galileo. Chapman. Caravaggio. Mapplethorpe. Einstein. Rushdie. Persecuted geniuses. We'd all like to think we're geniuses; that we already know all the ...

Two 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 ...

How can instructors possibly train students on their knees?!?! My rebreather is better than yours. Sidemount is the absolute best configuration for all envir...

"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 ...

I 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...

Seriously, 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...

I have a new dive buddy. Named GREG. Yeah, all caps. GREG is an acronym I’ve been playing with. A predive check. There are lots of them out there, most of th...