Clare and I took a tour of the National Hyperbarics facility at Kingsbury Hospital earlier this year. This is a specialised clinical hyperbarics facility, where they use a recompression chamber to treat diving injuries as… Continue reading…
Hi divers What we have been up to For those of you that did not make it to the ocean last weekend I can truly say you missed out big time!! The OMSAC clean-up dive… Continue reading…
We recently did a chamber dive to 50 metres. A hyperbaric chamber is a sealable chamber, or pressure vessel, somewhat like your dive cylinder (just larger), and has hatches large enough for you to climb… Continue reading…
I’ve been wanting to arrange a chamber dive for a while. Hyperbaric chambers are like large geysers that can be pressurised to higher than atmospheric pressure. They are used in medical applications – breathing oxygen-rich… Continue reading…
We finally did the long-threatened chamber dive yesterday evening. Here’s a video I took from outside the chamber, with Bernita, Goot, Sophie and Tracy inside – highly narcosed at 50 metres and having (from the… Continue reading…
Hello all you divers We have just come home from a 50 metre chamber dive. We were two groups of four on each dive and the profile went like this: surface to a brief stop… Continue reading…
Hi everyone We have done very little diving this past week, lousy weather and lots of wind. Dive planning This weekend I am hoping to do boat dives one day (probably Saturday, weather dependent), and… Continue reading…
Hi everyone Weekend diving The weekend was not ideally suited to diving and Saturday was too windy for diving. Sunday saw a strong southeaster which dictated the only option for diving, OPBC. Close to the… Continue reading…
Hi everyone Sodwana is booked and deposits paid (I have paid for those of you that have yet to pay your deposits so don’t let me down), the current water temperature there is 29 degrees… Continue reading…
