cave diving

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 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...

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?

The first interview in the CCRExplorers.com webchat series will be with Peter Buzzacott from DAN. Peter is an avid technical diver, Director of Injury Monitoring and Prevention at Divers Alert Network and had nine papers published last year and six in 2015. He recently participated in a cave...

Hi, Anybody who has some nice cavedivingbooks for sale ? English , French, German or Dutch. Shipping would be to Belgium. Thanks, David.

Calling all HammerHead CCR divers! Finally there is a rugged, reliable, high performance light designed especially for you! 2000 lumens for 6 hours, and you don't even have to have the battery on your waist! The new SubGravity CCR Light, is unique in that the battery packs are easily...

Come join me (CCR Cave instructor Josh Thornton) in Florida for the adventure of a lifetime and earn your Full Cave certification on a rebreather! This course is for the serious adventurer wanting to explore further into the overhead environment, make jumps off of main lines to adjoining...

Following up from some other threads. I have learned that different training agencies handle instructor requirements differently with respect to the type of CCR the student is using for CCR Cave training. For those agencies that offer a specific certification in CCR Cave, the instructor...

Still a few open spots in this course: CCR Cave, FL - Jan 11-18 2014 Course options available if you are not up for the full course: CCR Cavern (Jan 12-13) CCR Introductory Cave Diver (Jan 14-15) CCR Cave diver (Jan 16-19) Come join CCR Cave instructors Josh & Michael Thornton in Florida...

As some of you may know, the Dive Addicts Exploration Team has been involved with several cave projects here in Utah over the last 5 years or so. Our latest is the most exciting, technical, promising and challenging yet. It involves navigating down/through over 1200 feet vertical over the course...

I had a conversation with some other CCR Cave Instructors recently and the consensus was that CCR has now overtaken OC cave diving in terms of numbers of active cave divers. For the remaining OC cave diving community, it seems like there are more sidemount than backmount OC divers. Basically...