Diver UK – July 2019

Last month US diver

MICHAEL MENDUNO

recalled the emergence of

what would become

technical diving. Now he

looks at how it got its name, at the

controversy generated by the ‘devil

gas’ nitrox, and the battle to get to

grips with safety in the early ‘90s. Main

picture courtesy of LEIGH BISHOP

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Pt 2

THE

TECHNICAL

DIVING

REVOLUTION