You can’t choose when you will find a cave. But looking—truly looking—is what makes you an explorer. It's easy to join someone else's expedition when the groundwork has been done: the terrain walked, the entrances found, the first few meters of line laid. But if you’re an explorer, you will explore.

I have been diving and teaching on open circuit scuba for 29 years, so when people see me at the dive site with this box on my back I do get asked all the time why make the switch now? “What took you so long to make the switch?” or “Why bother switching to CCR now?”

A behind the scenes Q&A with award-winning Director Nays Baghai. He discusses why they chose to use rebreathers and other helpful tips for aspiring underwater filmmakers. Diving Into The Darkness is an awe-inspiring odyssey about cave diving icon Jill Heinerth, and her journey of exploration, resilience and self-discovery into the planet’s deepest depths. 

Wish you could shoot shipwreck photos good enough to grace the pages of a dive magazine? Photo journalist Jason Brown reveals his ‘go to’ tricks to help you shoot better wreck photos.

It wasn’t long ago that dive computers as we know them today didn’t exist. You planned your dives using tables and tracked your time with a simple bottom timer. But thankfully, modernity came for the dive industry. Contemporary dive computers, pioneered and refined by Shearwater, have completely changed the way we plan and execute dives. But there’s always a catch: the best dive technology is only as effective as the diver using it.

Divers who understand the inherent uncertainty in decompression modeling and want to take a more active role in their own dive planning can use available tools to tailor the limits to their needs or preferences. This is a good choice for dynamic conditions or complex dives, when the goal of simply staying away from limits gets hard to track. Gradient factors represent a good tool to actively manage risk.

A diver’s decompression requirements depend solely upon the time, depth and level of oxygen over the course of the dive regardless of the fraction of helium and or nitrogen used in the breathing mix. The so-called “helium penalty, does not exist.