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Technical Diving

Angelica Asplund

In the last edition Paul wrote about why CCR is safer, deeper. You may recall Paul talking about a dive to 100m which didn't go according to plan and where some rather hair-raising minutes were had... Trust me he wasn't kidding, I was there.

Paul and I have spent time since that dive talking about what happened and how we resolved the situation to safely get to the surface. A key learning, as Paul mentioned, was how CCR brings an additional safety aspect to a dive to those depths. Now I'd like to share some additional thoughts and learning from that dive. Looking back not just to that dive, but over my diving career, there are two things that have become so much more important and obvious to me as a diver and as an instructor since that dive. Firstly - preparation...

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