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The next 10 pieces on the bench — in rough priority order. Titles will shift as drafts land. Entries disappear from this list automatically the moment the article ships. If you want to catch them as they publish, subscribe via RSS.
- Anxietydraft
The Breath That Fixes Everything (Until It Does Not)
Box breathing, tactical breathing, coherent breathing — they all work at depth, and they all stop working the moment you actually need them. What I do instead.
- Tech Divingdraft
What Nitrogen Narcosis Actually Feels Like at 40 Metres
Not a Wikipedia definition. The specific way my thinking gets slippery, the tells I have learned to catch, and the drills that let me still function.
- Storiesdraft
My First Panic at Depth — And the 90 Seconds That Got Me Out
One dive. The exact moment control left. What my buddy did right. What I did wrong. Written the way I would want to read it if it had not happened to me yet.
- Tech Divingdraft
The Twin-Set Learning Curve Nobody Warns You About
Trim, valve drills, the sheer physical intimidation of the rig. Six months of feeling like a beginner again — and the small wins that made me stop dreading kit-up day.
- Anxietydraft
Why "Just Relax" Is the Worst Dive Advice Ever Given
It sounds kind. It is useless at depth. A better replacement — three words a rebreather instructor gave me that actually work when your pp02 alarm is going off.
- Anxietydraft
Post-Dive Shakes: Adrenaline, Cold, or Something Else?
Nobody talks about the twenty minutes after you climb back on the boat. What is happening in your body, why it lasts, and when it is worth flagging to a doctor.
- Geardraft
Suunto D5 vs. Shearwater Peregrine, Two Years In
I dove both to the same depths in the same conditions. The one that survived my anxiety, and the one that quietly made it worse.
- Tech Divingdraft
How I Rebuilt My SAC Rate After a Panic Attack
SAC went from 16 to 28 L/min after one bad dive. Getting it back down took ten months and was not about calmness. It was about the boring stuff nobody films.
- Anxietydraft
Overhead Environments and the Anxious Diver
Wrecks, caves, ice, roofs. The honest question is not whether you can handle it — it is whether you should. How I decide, and the dives I have said no to.
- Storiesdraft
The Deco Stop That Reset My Relationship With Fear
A twelve-minute hang at six metres. Nothing to look at, nothing to do. It became the most useful meditation I have ever done — and the reason I stopped fighting the clock underwater.