cave diving

Save the Date for a Diveheart Day Out at the Blue Grotto. More details to follow, but the plan is to host a Discover Scuba Experience (for all) and/or a Fun Dive (for certified divers or students only). SAT, SEP 22 AT 8 AM EDT Diveheart at Blue Grotto Blue Grotto Dive Resort, Williston Florida...

Wasn't quite sure where to post this, but a fantastic article from the BBC about a deep cave body recovery. It's a bit long, but pretty gripping. And with unusually good attention to diving detail for a journalistic piece. The cave divers who went back for their friends

Hi everyone, Looking forward to being part of this community. I have been diving (not as much as I would have liked to) since 2014. At the moment I work (pro bono) weekends at a local dive centre in Sesimbra, Portugal, while I under a PADI divemaster course. Reccently, I have been thinking of...

After almost 20 years of doing the "respectable job" thing in NY, my husband and I are moving to Mexico to open a bed and breakfast for divers on the Riviera Maya. Our little slice of heaven is located almost halfway between Playa del Carmen and Tulum, and although we'll cater primarily to cave...

We have something extra special planned for TEKDiveUSA.2018. This year will feature an exhibit of techncial diving history with equipment from US divers who pushed the envelope. At its heart, the “Technical Diving Revolution” (1987-1996) was about our genomic disposition to explore coupled with...

How does living in a litigious society affect you as a technical diver/ manufacturer/ instructor etc? Join David Concannon at TEKDiveUSA.2018 for his presentation "WHERE EXPLORERS GO, ATTORNEYS FOLLOW". These insights will help you avoid becoming either a defendant or a statistic, in a warm and...

How do you differentiate between practices which offer physiological benefit and harm in diving? Many practices have been offered with the promise of improving the physiological safety of diving. While some do, others have the potential to both hurt and harm. The adage "the dose makes the...

Join Peter Buzzacott at TEKDiveUSA.2018. Peter will be presenting on "Tech Diving Near Misses, Injuries and Fatalities In The DAN Database" and "Cave Diving Fatalities Monitoring and Prevention". TEKDiveUSA.2018 will feature thirty presentations by experts and explorers from around the globe...

Join Gareth Lock and David Concannon at TEKDiveUSA.2018 April 27th-29th in Orlando, Florida. They will be debating the "RELEASING ACCIDENT INFORMATION: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE AND THREAT OF LITIGATION" A look at the significant challenges involved in resolving the conflict...

Join Nathalie Lasselin at TEKDiveUSA.2018 for her presentation Nathalie Lasselin "AQUA INCOGNITA- CAVE DIVING IN CHINA". See a Video Preview here-

Who's going to the Conference? It's at "The Mill Pond" May 18th to the 20th 2018 Sign up here now! 2018 NSS-CDS International Cave Diving Conference - NSS CDS

This years NSS-CDS International Cave Diving Conference is being held in Marianna, Florida and the tickets are selling pretty darn fast. There will be a LIMITED number of 'swag bags'. If you want to guarantee your FREE 'swag bag' thats fixing to have some reptty cool scuba toys/tools then...

What are your thoughts on in water recompression? At TEKDiveUSA.2018 David Doolette will be presenting the process and evidence behind a committee of diving medicine experts who recently revised guidelines for the prehospital management of decompression illness. This committee reached a...

ABOUT What is TEKDiveUSA? TEKDiveUSA is an epic diving conference geared towards technical diving for both the novice and the expert diver. It does not matter if you are a seasoned explorer or if you are just tech curious. We offer a chance to meet with the technical diving community and hear...

A stone's throw from the Haitian border in the southwestern province of Pedernales in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola lies the island's most decorated cave. The entrance is reached after a crawl through a dry cave restriction which is fiercely defended by unstoppable hoards of rabid...

The time to submit a nomination for theTEKDiveUSA.2018 Awards is NOW! We want to hear from you. Who are the people making an impact on technical diving? These awards are determined by the technical diving community- so you tell us! Who is inspires you? Who is truly innovative? Submit your...

"The more you learn- the more you learn"- Warren Buffet How important is it to you as a cave diver to keep growing and educating yourself? Do you have any plans this year to "get learned"? Will you find yourself in a classroom setting? Mentorship? Research? Teaching others? New toys? New...

How do you stay inspired as a technical diver? What makes you want to learn/explore/research/dive something new?

A short feel of what it is to go cave diving: It was a lot of fun putting this video together. Shot on a Gopro Hero 5 Edited on Adobe Premiere Pro

A short taste of what's it like to go cave diving. This was shot on my last cave diving trip to France.