{"id":1760,"date":"2002-01-28T23:18:04","date_gmt":"2002-01-28T23:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2021-02-18T23:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T23:28:48","slug":"bernie-chowdhury-shipwrecks-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/bernie-chowdhury-shipwrecks-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Chowdhury &#8211; Shipwrecks 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BernieChowdhury-2002.jpg\" alt=\"BernieChowdhury-2002\" class=\"wp-image-1761\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernie Chowdhury has worn many hats during his 18 years in diving, including:\u00a0 instructor, expedition organizer, industry consultant, lecturer, and author, to name a few.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the founder and publisher of<em>\u00a0<strong>immersed: the international technical diving magazine<\/strong><\/em>, a quarterly now in its seventh year of publication, with subscribers in over 63 countries.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His first book,\u00a0<em>The Last Dive<\/em>, (published by HarperCollins in North America, Oct, 2000) has received critical acclaim.\u00a0 Rights have been sold in at least ten languages, with various release dates slated in Europe and Asia.\u00a0 He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club, and was named 2001 Diver of the Year (Education) by\u00a0<em>Beneath the Sea<\/em>, which hosts North America\u2019s largest consumer scuba diving show.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Safety First: Lessons from &#8220;The Last Dive&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lastdive-2002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1762\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever depth you dive, getting yourself back safely should be your primary concern. Yet divers too often become focused on their goals, let down their guard, and become complacent of the dangers involved, with dire consequences.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video and slide presentation, we&#8217;ll examine lessons learned from the world of cave and wreck diving as described in Bernie Chowdhury&#8217;s book, The Last Dive, with emphasis on how all divers can be safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Chowdhury has worn many hats during his 18 years in diving, including:\u00a0 instructor, expedition organizer, industry consultant, lecturer, and author, to name a few.\u00a0 He is the founder and publisher of\u00a0immersed: the international technical diving magazine, a quarterly now in its seventh year of publication, with subscribers in over 63 countries.\u00a0 His first book,\u00a0The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":1761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}