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 [...]
Read more“Lost and Found-Legacy of the USS Lagarto,” the Emmy Award-winning documentary about the mission, sinking and — 60 years later — discovery of the USS Lagarto, will debut in Thailand at a Dec. 12 event in Koh Tao hosted by the MV Trident, the famed wreck hunters who found the U.S. submarine sunk by the [...]
Read moreTechnical divers are increasingly outfitting their second-stage regulators with long hoses, which is a good thing. This is the one that gets donated in an out of gas emergency. It needs to be readily available and functioning properly for such an emergency. Unfortunately, as Precision Diving’s Duane Johnson points out, the more people use the [...]
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We love good tech-diving photos, no matter which dive shop the photographer worked with. So when we learned of a new Flickr gallery from ex-Big Blue Tech crew member Christos Kardana we just had to check it out. According to the BBT blog: The majority of his work was composed during diving trips with us [...]
Read moreNot Thailand specific, but valuable even after two years. The Proceedings of the January 2008 Divers Alert Network Technical Diving Conference: Vann RD, Mitchell SJ, Denoble PJ, Anthony TG, eds. Technical diving. Proceedings of the Divers Alert Network 2008 January 18-19 Conference. Durham, NC: Divers Alert Network; 2009. ISBN# 978-1-930536-53-1 is now available to the [...]
Read moreThailand’s premier wreck hunters, the MV Trident, have published their 2010 schedule and it looks like more deep diving fun. From the base in Koh Tao, tech trips will depart every couple of weeks and fall into three categories (based on direction from Koh Tao): northern, eastern and southern routes. The Northern Route trip runs [...]
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Among Thailand’s dive community there are a select few people who’ve achieved a reputation as being a “genius” in their particular area. When it comes to service and technician services, one of those people is Steve “SB2″ Burton, an acclaimed technical diver in his own right and also the man behind Samui EasyTek. A friend [...]
Read moreA team of divers from Davy Jones Locker in Koh Tao claim to have been the first to have located a shipwreck in the Penang straits of Malacca. They say the wreck is an unknown cargo vessel of approximately 2500 BRT. According to a post on Scubaboard from a DJL employee, the wreck was discovered [...]
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She is prolific, that’s certainly one thing you can say about tech instrucor Ayesha Cantrell. In another post to the DSAT TecRec Blog, she talks about what its like to be a woman among the many men in technical diving. Female technical divers certainly seem to be in the minority and I always seem to [...]
Read moreA watch. That’s what we’re talking about. Not a dive computer. Not a depth gauge or bottom timer. Simple right? If you think so, you’ll want to have a read through Duane Johnson’s latest “how to” post. Now I know your next statement, “I wear my watch on my wrist.” Certainly that is a logical [...]
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Ayesha Cantrell, one of Thailand’s best-known technical divers due to her long list of published articles and photos, is back again, this time on the DSAT Chat blog with another look at Khao Sok National Park, which we talked about yesterday, and, in particular, the sunken villages there. While the underwater the terrain remains largely [...]
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Although Aquanauts may be based in Pattaya, we do cavern, cave and rebreather courses for divers all over Thailand, including for some of the country’s highest-certified and experienced PADI professionals. For the past couple of months, ANDI Instructor Trainer (and PADI CD) Roger M. Smith has been training PADI Course Director Jonas Samuelsson of Bans Divers and [...]
Read moreFor the fourth year in a row, Aquanauts Dive Career Development Centre, Pattaya, Thailand’s only British-owned PADI 5-Star Career Development Center, will be exhibiting its technical diving courses and trips at the largest dive show in the United Kingdom. Dive 2009 will be held at the NEC in Birmingham, England Oct. 24-25. Aquanauts founding partner [...]
Read moreA big announcement from tech-equipment maker Halcyon. Today the company announced a broad recall of products across its product line for fear they may pose a drowning risk. Halcyon Manufacturing Inc. in cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has initiated a voluntary recall of select Eclipse, Evolve, Explorer, Pioneer and CCR35 buoyancy compensator’s [...]
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When the CMAS-backed Thailand Diving Association came up with the idea last year to sink a bunch of aluminum airplanes and helicopters, the near universal non-TDA opinion was it was a pretty stupid idea. Not only would the corrents in Bang Tao Bay play havoc with the site, but metal itself would quickly deterioriate before [...]
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