I never get sick of Norway. This time Trondheim was the destination, the city I have been studying the preceding 5 years. I had several errands here, which I had been looking forward to a long time. The first on my list was visiting the newly approved hyperbaric chamber. The chambers are sparse in Norway, […]

After a taste of South African diving medicine I went to the UK for more. This time the Hyperbaric Medical Centre in Plymouth – maybe better known as the Diving Diseases Research Centre (DDRC). It is a charity founded 30 years ago to research the effects of the undersea environment on man. Even though we […]

After a week of courses in diving medicine I was off to Umkomaas, just outside of Durban, to visit Blue Wilderness. Blue Wilderness is a dive centre run by Mark and Gail Addison, but do not mistake it for your ordinary dive operator. They have an extensive cooperation with researchers and film crews, and while […]

This is the story about my South African medical adventure. After waiting for too many hours at the airport in Dubai, I arrived South Africa with more caffeine than blood cells in my circulation. My excitement of returning to this truly wild continent luckily overpowered my tired brain completely, and I was ready for a […]

Those two sentences are probably one of the things I will remember forever from my Scholarship year, and in a way they represent my recently finished introductory course to the Sentinel rebreather with Phil Short. Will and me flew together from Norway to England – and we are surprisingly disorganised sometimes considering we travel around […]