Inspired by a talk by Mauritius Valente Bell at RF4 in Malta, my latest piece for Alert Diver deals with diving in mixed teams of open and closed-circuit divers.
While Mauritius’ presentation focused mainly on the perspective of rebreather divers, my piece is addressed to an audience of experienced recreational and open-circuit technical divers. Check it out to learn how the dark side ticks.
The Dunning-Kruger effect isn’t real! Or is it? My latest piece for Alert Diver is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek deep dive into the intricacies, popular reception, and criticism of the Internet’s most popular psychology study and how it pertains, or doesn’t, to diving.
Read here: https://alertdiver.eu/en_US/articles/the-mirage-of-mount-stupid-diving-and-the-dunning-kruger-effect
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I had the pleasure and the honor to cover RF4 for DAN Europe last month. It was an amazing experience meeting the Who’s Who of technical diving, hyperbaric science, and diving technology. I certainly learned a lot, met some really cool people who do great things, and took home a whole list of ideas for new articles.
Here are three blog posts I wrote to summarize what went on on each of the three main days of the conference.
Thanks are due to Michael Menduno and his team for their fantastic work organizing the event, and to DAN Europe for putting me in charge of reporting. Stay safe and happy reading!
Shore diving in Taiwan is pretty special and something that is close to my heart. I’m glad I got to write about it for the Alert Diver blog.
Tim Blömeke 