Ahead full, Diving stations!

And when I was researching pearl divers, I found the world of free diving.

I'll show you some real fancy diving!

I can get a diving bell.

Do you like scuba diving?

But, it struck me how much this dive, these deep dives, was like a space mission.

I realized scuba gear extends your range of activity in just the same way as a wheelchair does, but the associations attached to scuba gear are ones of excitement and adventure, completely different to people's responses to the wheelchair.

Stop wallowing in your foul memories.

What do you know about deepsea diving?

You're lucky. You have a champion skin diver here.

Scuba diving attracts many visitors to the island.

So for two and a half hours, you sink down to the bottom.

During that year,

Has everyone seen the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly?

So when I began to dive, in 2005,

Drop all ballasts. Diving controls, full out position.

Ready to dive. Aye, sir. Diving stations!

Also, when you get down there, you find that the water is very, very clear.

There are a number of dive sites and a diving resort.

But before I dive into those I want to admit that I am an optimist.

We were at 360 feet.

And what I found, here's the wrinkle

These birds make a living by diving into the water.

So, I started researching into pearl divers.

Only you have to be careful to dive where the deep pool is.

Captain, is it possible to obtain the use of a diving bell?

We are now ready to make the dive at position number one.

What about the dive in the pool in the middle of the night?

Trimix is a breathing gas, consisting of oxygen, helium and nitrogen, and is often used in deep commercial diving and during the deep phase of dives carried out using technical diving techniques.

The region is rich in coral and has many diving sites.

Since the incident the United Kingdom had changed its diving procedures.

Well, in the context of diving, you get too much, you die also.

Narcosis is something that scuba divers learn about, and they fear it like the plague.

The stranger stood looking more like an angry diving helmet than ever.

For those of you who've been there, fantastic coral reefs, fantastic diving, fantastic snorkeling.

It is further defined as an activity that includes one or more of the following diving beyond 40 meters 130 feet, required stage decompression, diving in an overhead environment beyond 130 linear feet from the surface, accelerated stage decompression and or the use of multiple gas mixtures in a single dive.

As the sun comes up, you see in the blue, they start their dive.

And in the Dig Deeper section, you can use the resources provided or add your own.

And the problem, the limitation of diving with air is all those dots in your body all the nitrogen and all the oxygen.

And I remember coming up from one of these deep dives, and I had this fog, and the narcosis takes a little while to, you know, fade away.

Another possibility is to dive from the outside of the volcano through the channel into the caldera.

There are plenty of coral dive sites and a wide variety of marine life.

The limitation of diving with air is all those dots in your body, all the nitrogen and all the oxygen.

It can dive to 500 feet, to where sunlight does not penetrate, and is equipped with powerful lights.

I must warn you that leafing through this book could prove dangerous.