Advanced Knowledge Series: Are All Carbon Dioxide Absorbents the same?
By Associate Professor Simon Mitchell, University of Auckland. Introduction and recap This is the fifth in a series of articles appearing in Dive New Zealand …
Advanced Knowledge Series: The Gas Density Conundrum
By Associate Professor Simon Mitchell, University of Auckland. Introduction and recap This is the fourth in a series of articles appearing in Dive New Zealand …
Advanced Knowledge Series: The Five-minute Prebreathe
By Associate Professor Simon Mitchell, University of Auckland. Introduction and recap This is the third in a series of articles appearing in Dive New …
Advanced Knowledge Series: Carbon Dioxide Retention
Associate Professor Simon Mitchell, University of Auckland. Introduction This is the second in a series of articles that will appear in Dive New …
Corrective Lenses Underwater
By Quentin Bennett Without correction, vision underwater is worse than on the surface due to the diver’s pupils opening to allow more light into the eye in …
Advanced Knowledge Series: Basic Carbon Dioxide Physiology
By Associate Professor Simon Mitchell, University of Auckland. Introduction In this article I will explain what CO2 is and why it is important in diving. This …
Tragic Results of Not Exhaling During Your Ascent
O2 onboard your diving boat can save your life An Interview with Dean Syme By Dave Moran In January 2015 diver Dean Syme developed a Cerebral Arterial Gas …
Narcosis! Are you up for the challenge?
To help explain this, I have produced a graph which compares levels of nitrogen narcosis for a diver breathing air at depth against the equivalent levels of …
Diving Environments
Diving Environments (All chapters, full text, free download, available at http://www.divingmedicine.info) A perusal of this chapter may introduce him to some …
Women Diving and Pregnancy
– Should I Dive Whilst Pregnant? by Marguerite St Leger Dowse There will always be women who dive not knowing they are pregnant, or deliberately choose …