Category: Decompression Diving

Bangkok Post Recycles Konefe’s Intro to Thai Tech Diving

Posted on 12/10/09 No Comments

This has been printed elsewhere online before, but Bruce Konefe’s “Diving in Thailand” ran in Thursday’s Bangkok Post in a nice spread that highlights the increasing popularity of technical diving in Thailand. Konefe, a freelance instructor who was worked with Aquanauts off and on for years, got a great platform to introduce tech to a [...]

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Gary gets steadies himself on the dive platform.

Never Too Old for Tech

Posted on 08/19/09 No Comments

We all know that age is not a significant barrier to recreational diving. People can learn to dive — or even become instructors — in their 60s. But technical diving has generally been a younger diver’s game. The number of people who learn to tech dive in their 50s is much smaller than that of [...]

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Double Tec Deep Course Puts Students to Test

Posted on 07/14/09 No Comments

Aquanauts today wrapped up another two DSAT Tec Deep courses, this time for Dharshana Jayawardena of Sri Lanka and Gary Smith, one of Aquanauts’ PADI Instructor and technical-diving interns. Both found the course extremely challenging, but hugely satisfying. We joined the two students and TecRec Instructor Dan Beldon on Saturday for the final day of [...]

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Into the ‘Twilight Zone’

Posted on 08/14/08 No Comments

Aquanauts’ Bruce Konefe and a Team of Technical Divers Become the First Divers to Explore the Deep Regions of the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas

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