Technical diving websites

Published by the technical diver on 12/10/201812/10/2018

Technical diving websites

Below are some of the more prominent technical diving websites. In terms of personal blogs, some are more regularly updated than others. But there are plenty of existing posts to keep you busy. Diving forums are places where rabbit holes begin. On Scubaboard especially, some of the world’s eminent decompression and diving physiology researchers post and reply to queries, which helps to make difficult subjects accessible to the layperson.

There are also some excellent articles spread across the diving magazines, inDepth, X-ray Mag, Advanced Diver Magazine, and Tech Diving Magazine all have great content. Sadly some of those are no longer being published, but luckily back issues remain online.

There aren’t many purely tech-oriented YouTube channels, but Dr Richard Harris, known for the Thai cave rescue has some great content of deep cave diving. Likewise, Arctic Ice Divers have some interesting content about their mine diving activities. Other than those, some of the podcasts are interesting. My YouTube channel has a collection of playlists on different tech diving topics, which you can view here, or browse by category within this website- Skills and tutorials, decompression theory & physiology, or diving documentaries.

There is a large selection of diving medicine and human factors in diving articles, especially on the Diver’s Alert Network blog- Alert Diver, and Gareth Lock’s website, the Human Diver.

If any useful sources are not listed, please let me know.

Diving magazines

Advanced Diver magazine– Lots of interesting articles on tech diving.

X-ray mag– Similar to advanced diver mag, lots of interesting articles.

AquaCORPS Magazine– Back catalogue of articles hosted on X-ray Mag

Sport diver– General scuba diving.

Tech diving magazine– Sadly no longer being published, but thankfully someone created this site and put them all online.

Diver mag– Contributions from numerous authors on a variety of tech diving subjects.

Scuba diving– General scuba diving.

inDepth- Diving magazine founded by Jarod Jablonski and Michael Menduno

Blogs- personal and commercial

Wrecked in my revo- Personal blog of Brett Eldridge. He dives wrecks all over the world and uses photogrammetry to catalogue them. His website is a wealth of information and well worth looking through. He writes trip reports for all the locations he visits. If you’re interested in photogrammetry, there’s a lot of advice on how to get started and his approach to it.

Doppler’s tech diving blog- Personal blog of Steve Lewis. Lots of good info.

Cave diver Harry- Some candid information on dive training and diving procedures.

nigelhewitt.co.uk- Articles on all kinds of tech diving-related subjects.

John Clark online- Information on diving medicine about rebreathers.

Shearwater blog- A lot of good information on diving algorithms and other tech subjects.

TDI Blog- A wide range of technical diving articles from numerous authors.

PADI TecRec blog- Archive of tech-related articles.

Fit to Dive blog– Information on mental health for divers, and dealing with traumatic incidents in diving.

Frog Kick Diving- Website of UTD instructors, with useful info on how to rig a tank and other DIR setups.

therebreathersite.nl- Fascinating collection of information relating to rebreather diving

The Theoretical Diver- the personal blog of physicist and diver Robert Helling.

Wreck site- The world’s largest database of wrecks- over 200,000, with over 180,000 GPS coordinates. If you want the coordinates you have to pay, but otherwise there is a wealth of information about the wrecks.

Rod MacDonald- Author of numerous books about shipwrecks, including Truk Lagoon and Scapa Flow.

Sump UK- Andrew Goring designs and sells his own sidemount system and related accessories> He also designs harnesses for rebreathers. Worth checking out if you take your sidemount seriously.

All Things Diving ATD- Website with useful calculators for MOD, SCR, EAD and others. It also has a list of service manuals for various equipment such as regulators.

Podcasts and YouTube channels

Speaking sidemount- Podcast initially focusing on sidemount, but also has discussions about technical diving in general.

Scuba GOAT- General scuba podcast by Matt Waters

Inner Space Explorers- YouTube channel mostly focusing on technical diving.

The Technical Diver- Based in Norway and Antarctica, I curate playlists of diving videos for this website.

Dive Talk- US-based podcast.

Global Underwater Explorers- Official channel of GUE.

Arctic Ice Divers- A Group of Finnish cave and mine divers.

Richard Harris- Tech diver, diving physician and anaesthetist. Part of the Wet Mules team based in Australia.

Rod MacDonald- Writer who specialises in shipwrecks. Good videos about the wrecks of Truk Lagoon and Scapa Flow.

Deep Wreck Diver- Interesting channel run by Dom Robinson, who’s based in the UK and dives the deep wrecks around the British Isles, so spoilt for choice!

Dive Zone Scuba- Dive centre based in Texas, US. Detailed content, including equipment tips and “how-to” videos on topics such as gas-switching and helicopter turns.

Dive Planning Tools

DiveBlendr- A free web-based toolkit for technical divers, offering gas blending, dive planning, and environmental data utilities. It supports Trimix and CCR/OC blending, real gas corrections, and provides full transparency on calculations. The platform also includes SAC rate estimation, tank testing, marine condition data, and photo-cleaning tools. It works offline as a Progressive Web App, has no ads or sign-ups, and does not collect user data.

Gas Blender Toolkit- A web application designed for gas blending. It has all the functionality for partial pressure blending for nitrox and trimix, and also allows you to add in the cost per litre of O2 and He.