Equipment, configuration and mindset. From courses and my own dives.
October 4, 2026
Close to fifteen years of sidemount diving has put most tank types in my hands. I started on 8.5 litre steel, moved to the AL80, went to heavy steel after that, and for many years now I have dived light...
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July 27, 2026
Coffee and tea are not beverages. They are worldviews. What tea was to feudal Japan, coffee was to the medieval Middle East. Both cultures understood the same thing: a drink can be more than a drink. It can be a...
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July 14, 2026
There is one sentence I hear regularly when talking to divers about the GUE Navigation Primer:
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June 23, 2026
A scooter looks like a shortcut. Pull the trigger, drift past the reef, and you barely move your fins. That image is exactly what most divers have in mind when they buy a DPV — and exactly why they underestimate...
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June 9, 2026
“Sidemount is just tech light.” I hear that one regularly, sometimes as an honest question, sometimes as a finished verdict, and usually it sits at the start of the same conversation that soon arrives at “GUE or TDI?” — as...
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June 8, 2026
Every step in my diving started with the same sentence: something’s missing. No master plan, no bucket list, no collecting cards. Just that question, which popped up every time I felt I’d stopped making progress — and was never answered...
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June 3, 2026
There’s a debate that repeats endlessly in forums, on boats, and after dives: “Which is better – backmount or sidemount?”
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June 15, 2025
Buying gear instead of practicing – why that backfires in sidemount
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