ScubaBrucie

Recently on Bonaire we saw Paul Allen’s second yacht, Octopus. It is huge, big enough for a hangar for the two helicopters it carries! Big enough to carry a resident dive instructor to teach and guide the guests as necessary. I was told that the dive instructor had resigned and that there was a job [...]

In GUE-speak a ‘stroke’ is someone you wouldn’t dive with. It has become a derogatory term as used by George Irvine (why doesn’t he have an entry on Wikipedia?) on many a diving forum. Here is a fun test to find out if you are a stroke.

1) Emile Gagnan co invented which fundemental piece of dive kit? 2) Henry Fleuss and Sieur Freminet both invented/developed a device that killed them both. Many more have died using it. What is it? Some pieces of eqipment and procedures are named after people. What are the following responsible for? 3) Bill Main 4) Richard [...]

10 more dives bringing my Menorca total to 53 this year and my running total to 931. Air fare was £50 return plus £36 taxes using the Monarch scheduled out of Birmingham. Stayed with my mother http://www.binifadet14.com/ who is selling her house and used her car. 10 dives with Salgar diving (they don’t dive Sunday [...]

Part One: Firstly I would like to apologise to all the lizards who have gone to meet their maker (or not, depending on your faith). It wasn’t deliberate and it wasn’t personal, in fact I even tried to avoid you. But if you choose to dart under my wheels at the last second there isn’t [...]

Tourettes video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFTdiBa9cg&NR Richard Pyle. He is that rare combination of top academic and actionman. For over 16 years he has been diving deep on a very regular basis. From before modern technical diving was invented (in fact he helped invent it!). He has been on a constant succession of expeditions aound the world. [...]

Now first things first: I am not a medical professional of any sort. The following is just based on my own experience travelling the world a lot over many years. Use it at your own risk. I have seen many a person lose dives because of the trots but, with a bit of knowledge, it [...]