Was away for a week getting some late summer sun in the southern Egyptian Red Sea. On the way back picked up a copy of this months Diver magazine, the leading UK dive mag. It published a 40 year historical retrospective. 20 years ago diving was for lunatics with a death wish. Today anyone on a holiday where the sea is warm and there is something to look at underwater can dive. The reason technological advances. But almost no breakthroughs. BCD's are better (the jackets that help keep depth even), infinitely better but an advance on a theme. Dive computers are algorythmic advances of dive tables that have been in existence since..... Regulators and second stages have really changed the availability of the sport.
Now it is too available - humans are de-populating the most accessible dive sites, causing changes in animal behaviour. That's why our next trip will be somewhere totally inaccessible.
18 October 2003
Was away for a week getting some late summer sun in the southern Egyptian Red Sea. On the way back picked up a copy of this months Diver magazine, the leading UK dive mag. It published a 40 year historical retrospective. 20 years ago diving was for lunatics with a death wish. Today anyone on a holiday where the sea is warm and there is something to look at underwater can dive. The reason technological advances. But almost no breakthroughs. BCD's are better (the jackets that help keep depth even), infinitely better but an advance on a theme. Dive computers are algorythmic advances of dive tables that have been in existence since..... Regulators and second stages have really changed the availability of the sport.
Now it is too available - humans are de-populating the most accessible dive sites, causing changes in animal behaviour. That's why our next trip will be somewhere totally inaccessible.
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