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Category: Diving

  • Sea of Tranquility – Snorkeling VR by Pierre Friquet

    Sea of Tranquility – Snorkeling VR by Pierre Friquet

    During the World XR Forum this year in Crans Montana I helped Pierre Friquet with his Sea of Tranquility VR Experience. This VR experience was unique in that it required you to be either in your swimming clothes, your underwear or other. This was a VR experience where you went from being outside where the […]

  • What is There to See in the Lake

    What is There to See in the Lake

    What is there to see in the lake is a question that people have frequently asked me. For at least two years I would go diving nearly every weekend. I would dive in the Lac Léman, the Lac de Bourget, the Gouille Du Duzillet. I also dived the English channel in November. I dived all […]

  • The Apple Watch does not fill a niche

    The Apple Watch rather than fill a niche provides a fifth screen. According to Wikipedia the four first screens are the cinema screen, the television screen and the mobile phone and tablet screen. The fifth screen is the smart watch as designed by Apple, Samsung, Sony and others. Apple and others have designed phones that bring […]

  • Font del Truffe with T-Reb

    Font del Truffe with T-Reb from Slawek Packo on Vimeo. Cave diving in France. Although there is a squeeze at the beginning the cave looks forgiving from a visibility point of view.

  • How PADI divers see an over-romanticised side of diving

      Whilst it is true that divers are at the beach every weekend the location is not quite that nice. Some of us are or were in the mountains every Saturday and in the lakes every Sunday. We did have to wear shoes because the dive site is a lake. We don’t all drink beer […]

  • Birth of a regulator

    Birth of a Regulator – Commercial Film for Apeks from Scarlet View Media on Vimeo.   I was curious to watch part of the process. i am more and more tempted to start diving again but I think without being too technical. I think I need to return to recreational, non challenging dives.

  • Rolling in the Deep

    Rolling in the Deep – Anilao from Dustin Adamson on Vimeo. Some interesting underwater footage

  • V-315 Wreck dive

    V 315 (Poland 2013) from Daniel Pastwa on Vimeo. A better produced diving video than usual.

  • Blue Silence Rebreather

    Blue Silence Rebreather from gogo on Vimeo. Just an excuse to look at a wreck and some manta rays. The rebreather system they are using is by Poseidon.

  • Tec dive Little Canyon – Dahab

    Tec dive Little Canyon – Dahab from trimix117 on Vimeo. Underwater travel