Oceans of Opportunity

Tag: for undersea visitors and practitioners

plan your dive, dive your plan

From the seemingly simple, to utterly complex of underwater operations, the statement ‘plan your dive, dive your plan’ offers a critical piece of advice. In the early days, I was taught about the 7 P’s – Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance – and that has proved true time and time again. Most of…

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a bit more pressure

While the winter has been quite productive despite the convention of a seasonal low in contract diving, the recent break in the weather has ramped things up significantly. More work means more and more time underwater, and ‘under pressure‘. I’ve written about pressure numerous times before, and the topic is certain to continually surface as we continue on…

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delta P | dealing with pressure, under pressure

This past week marked the continuation of a field project that I have been involved with since early in the fall involving dam repair work. Aside from tight tunnel penetrations, in my opinion, I’d say dams are among the most hazardous of working dive environments. This is to to one thing – pressure. In commercial…

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descents are optional, ascents are mandatory

“Descents are optional, ascents are mandatory”. Those words have echoed in my brain continuously since reading them not long ago in Jill Heinerth’s Blog, Rebreatherpro.com, where she described a recent bad day of cave diving. Regardless of any mishaps or misfortunes, those words are so very true. What complicates the ‘ascents are mandotory’ part of…

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the bottom line on hypothermia

This 2010/2011 winter has been brutally cold here in the Northeast, and unarguably colder than most. As time has passed over the years, it’s become harder and harder to jump in the water this time of year. But, therein lies no choice if one is to continue working as a diving contractor in New England.…

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a visionary for future human sustainability | Dennis Chamberland

We’ve touched on the future sustainability of our species here on ‘a New Life in the Sea’ several times over the past couple of years. ‘Sustainability’ is a buzzword that has been used in the context of endangered terrestrial species – particularly those impacted by human development; and for marine species – again, in the context of sustainable…

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Cousteau | ahead of his time AND a visionary for the future

‘Cousteau’ is THE name synonymous with our ocean world. In all of our past and future journeys to the sea, underlying our motivations is undoubtedly a vision that has been inspired by this single man. Not only was Cousteau ahead of his time – pioneering numerous innovations in personal life system design, undersea habitation, and wet…

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the ‘odds’ in Vegas

I’m finding it somewhat ironic that I’ve travelled through two of the last places on Earth I’d ever consider experiencing in just the last two weeks. As I write here today, I’m on my way home from sin city…Las Vegas. While my purpose for being in Vegas was a great one – that is supporting…

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two of my favorite things

National Geographic’s recent ‘Naked Science’ episode on cities under the sea touched on two of my favorite things…Lego’s and diving! Colleagues and explorers Dennis Chamberland and Lloyd Godson were featured in the episode, as they are making huge strides in exploration, making a frontier push, and redefining the social and psychological limitations of humans as…

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