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ROVs Arising

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By Drew Richardson
| PADI Blog
If you’ve been diving for decades like me, you may remember the Edge, regarded as the first commercially successful dive computer. It was almost as long as your forearm and told you three things: depth, time and no-stop time remaining or required deco – that’s it. Today, dive computers no bigger than a watch (some are watches) also tell you temperature, direction, gas supply, ascent rate and more.
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Learning Whale Speak

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By Drew Richardson
| PADI Blog
When divers get together, we tend to talk about what we saw, but there’s a big exception. After diving anywhere near humpback whales, the excitement’s about what we heard. Humpback whale songs are both beautiful and enchanting – eerie in a good way. I’ve made dives in which all my buddy and I really did was listen to them. Scientists have long suspected that humpback whale songs, as well as the “clicks” and other sounds made by virtually all whale species, are communication.
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Diving Counteracts Nature-Deficit Disorder

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By Drew Richardson
| PADI Blog
In some previous blogs, I’ve mentioned nature-deficit disorder (NDD), a term that describes how separation from nature harms us both mentally and physically. Author Richard Louv created the term in 2005 to start addressing how living in cities apart from the natural world affects all of us, with . Although not a formal medical condition, research into NDD is confirming Louv’s view. One study found that being in nature improves thinking and makes us more self-aware.
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