Diving 2024 resources

Context

Motivations

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Journey

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Schedule

Material set up – January 22 to March 13

• First contacts with Robin
• Equipment updated for full cave training → List

Preparation – March 14 to June 12

Course

• Initial team alignement
• Course confirmed
• Further team alignment: skills, dives aboarded and accidents, material

Logistics

• Funding
• Medical assessment
• Flights booked
• Visa approved
• Hosting booked

Practice

• Physical exercice
• Training to Dive Leader (10 courses, 15-20 dives, physical preparation)
• Fun dives (15-20 dives)

Equipment

• Equipment fine tuned
• Travel tests

Drysuit test – June 19

• Fun dives

Travel – June 20 to 22

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Training – June 24 to July 15

• Cave training

Interlude – July 15 to October 05

• Cave exploration, back to Europe?

Expedition – October 06 to November 10

• To be confirmed

Resources on diving

Robin Cuesta

• Blog: A day to day diary into a cave diving course (annotated)
• Podcast 2021: Sidemount Pros #71 – Robin Cuesta "The Caves of Sulawesi"
• Podcast 2022: The Dive Table #39 – A Conversation with Robin Cuesta of Sulawesi Dive Trek
• Podcast 2023: Everand – Interview with Robin Cuesta. From Off Gassing: A Scuba Podcast
• Interview 2020: ADEX – Rewind: Spotlight on Cave Plastic Pollution: Dialogue Exchange
• Youtube channel
• Website

Books

• Jill Heinerth. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver. Ecco 2019.
• Stratis Kas, Matteo Ratto. Cave Diving: everything you always wanted to know. 2nd edition. Kas 2023.
• Stratis Kas, Edoardo Pavia, Michaël Menduno. Close calls. Kas 2023.
• Gareth Lock. Under Pressure: Diving Deeper with Human Factors. Human in the System Consulting 2019.
• Jill Heinerth. The Essentials of Cave Diving. 4th edition. Heinerth Productions 2020.
• Marc Cowan, Martin Robson. Between the Devil and the Deep: One Man's Battle to Beat the Bends. Unbound 2021.
• Simon Pridmore. Scuba Confidential: An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver. 2021.

Other references

• Neal Pollock. Thoughtful management of decompression stress. BSAC 2016.
• GUE TV
• DAN Southern Africa

Resources on Sulawesi and Indonesian culture

Books

• Derek Hall, Tania Li, Philip Hirsch. Powers of exclusion : land dilemmas in Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press 2011.
• Tania Li. Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park. Cornell University Press 2008.

Articles

• Emmanuela Halim, Ardhana Riswarie, Cindy Harjatanaya. Homecoming: Transitional Experiences of Art Therapists in Indonesia. 2021.
• Siti Maimunah. Reflecting on the ethics of PhD research in the Global South: : reciprocity, reflexivity and situatedness. 2020.

Other references

• University of Toronto Land's End: Tania Murray Li's Book Site