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TEKDIVEUSA.2020 – Millennial Tech Divers: Past, Present, and Future

TEKDIVEUSA.2020 – Millennial Tech Divers: Past, Present, and Future
Building on the successful Inside the Minds of Millennial Tech Divers panel discussion from TEKDiveUSA.2018, a new panel of accomplished Millennial divers has been formed to dive deeper into issues concerning the next prominent generation in technical diving. Discussion topics include a look at the panel’s entry to diving and technical diving specifically. What roadblocks…
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TEKDiveUSA.2020 – A Future for Photogrammetry: The Application of the Multi-Camera “SeaArray” to Visualize the Underwater World

TEKDiveUSA.2020 – A Future for Photogrammetry: The Application of the Multi-Camera “SeaArray” to Visualize the Underwater World
With the exception of ever-increasing resolutions there have been few advancements that have drastically changed how we image, document, or interpret the underwater world since the adoption of underwater digital imaging in the early 1990’s. Photogrammetry may be the exception, but its primary application continues to focus on single camera acquisition and the 3D reconstruction…
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TEKDiveUSA.2020 – Beyond the Sump – Rio Uluapan

TEKDiveUSA.2020 – Beyond the Sump – Rio Uluapan
In April 2019, a small team of cavers and divers visited the Rio Uluapan, which is a resurgence that emerges below the Cerro Rabon.  The Cerro Rabon is the Eastern prominence of the Sierra Mazatec range of Southeastern Mexico and the surrounding plateau receives an average annual rainfall of 5 meters a year.  More than…
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TEKDiveUSA.2020 – Infinite Liquid, Greece: Europe’s newest Cave country

TEKDiveUSA.2020 – Infinite Liquid, Greece: Europe’s newest Cave country
Join Stratis Kas, Simone Villotti and Matteo Ratto at TEKDiveUSA.2020 for the debut screening of "Infinite Liquid". The Film is a 25' documentary film, that follows the four explorers on their adventures throughout Greece’s most magnificent locations, both underwater and not. Using sidemount equipment to get to places that nobody has ever filmed before. Breathtaking…
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TEKDiveUSA.2020 – Baltic Circle Diving 

TEKDiveUSA.2020 – Baltic Circle Diving 
The Nordic/ Baltic region is often overlooked for the amazing diving that is has offer all levels of divers who are often unaware how good it is or intimidated by the temperatures. In 2019 the Baltic Circle Diving tour aimed to show what the region had to offer by making a 3.5 month roadtrip around…
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Pushing The Envelope- History of Technical Diving Equipment Exhibit

Pushing The Envelope- History of Technical Diving Equipment Exhibit
  We have something extra special planned for TEKDiveUSA.2018. This year will feature an exhibit of techncial diving history with equipment from US divers who pushed the envelope. At its heart, the “Technical Diving Revolution” (1987-1996) was about our genomic disposition to explore coupled with emerging new technologies that enabled us to visit underwater realms not…
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Shooting Shipwrecks- TEKDiveUSA.2018

Pete Mesley have travelled the world shooting shipwrecks. He will take you on an underwater photographic tour of different techniques for photographing these wrecks and the unique ways they look at lighting, composition, and working with models - to achieve some amazingly different results. [caption id="attachment_1064" align="alignleft" width="224"] Pete Mesley[/caption]
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WHY DO TECHNICAL DIVE TEAMS FAIL? – TEKDiveUSA.2018

Team dynamics are taught at the earliest stages of dive training.  Why is it then that we consistently see experienced dive teams break down at crucial moments resulting in mishaps and fatalities?  Join Randy Thornton as he presents the who, how, why and what of team dynamics including what works and what doesn’t!   [caption id="attachment_3400"…
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CCRs – What’s next? TEKDiveUSA.2018

CCRs – What’s next? TEKDiveUSA.2018
Join this informative and experienced panel of leading CCR manufacturers as they discuss where the industry is headed in the development of rebreathers and how that will impact you as a technical diver.   [caption id="attachment_3296" align="alignleft" width="300"] Michael Thornton[/caption] [caption id="attachment_243" align="alignleft" width="300"] Mike Young[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3400" align="alignleft" width="300"] Randy Thornton[/caption] [caption id="attachment_775" align="alignleft" width="230"]…
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Navigating Between Physiological Benefit and Harm in Diving

Navigating Between Physiological Benefit and Harm in Diving
Many practices have been offered with the promise of improving the physiological safety of diving. While some do, others have the potential to both hurt and harm. The adage "the dose makes the poison" frequently applies to diving physiology. This presentation by Neal Pollock will consider issues and strategies to help in navigating between risk…
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TEKDiveUSA.2018 Raffle

During the TEKDiveUSA.2018 Gala Dinner  there will be a charity auction and raffle held. Proceeds go in part to the TEKDiveUSA technical diving scholarship fund with a goal of inspiring and empowering the next generation of technical divers. The TEKDiveUSA Technical Diving Scholarship's mission is to cultivate the next generation of safe, experienced technical divers by providing…
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Systema Sac Actun and Systema Dos Ojos- TEKDiveUSA.2018

On January 10th 2018 a team of divers in Quintana Roo,Mexico discovered the connection between Systema Sac Actun and Systema Dos Ojos, making Systema Sac Actun the longest underwater cave system in the world. The team consisted of Robbie Schmittner, the team leader  who incidentally had been searching for the connection for the past 14…
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DEVELOPMENTS IN SAFETY MANAGEMENT AND DIVING RESEARCH

TEKDiveUSA.2018 will feature a panel discussion by some of the brightest minds in scientific diving and medical research. They represent a variety of backgrounds and interests that should make for a lively discussion of developments in safety management and diving research. Join Dr. Simon Mitchell, Dr. Neal Pollock,  Dr. David Doolette, Doug Ebersole MD, Andrew Pitkin MD, Moderated by Dr. Dawn…
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Safety Warning

WARNING: Scuba diving is an inherently dangerous sport that can result in serious injury or death if you do not receive the proper training and practice safe diving techniques. The ideas, topics and material presented at TEKDiveUSA are those of the presentor, and TEKDiveUSA LLC does not endorse, support, advocate or accept liability for any of said material / content.

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TEKDIVEUSA.2020 POSTPONED

TEKDiveUSA has been monitoring the evolving situation on coronavirus both in the U.S. and around the globe. Due to the public health emergency we are currently facing, we believe that it is not possible to move forward with TEKDiveUSA.2020 as planned. 

 

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