Club Narked is an alcohol and drug-free club with a top-secret location, due to open in the next 18 months. Claiming to intoxicate clubbers naturally “via Nitrogen Narcosis,” the £5 million club will be nestled inside a converted bank vault. Once inside, clubbers will breathe compressed air in the pressurized vault, which will create “the safe high known as being ‘narked’.” Explaining that “complex reasoning decreases 33% and manual dexterity decreases 7.3%” when someone is narked, the owners maintain that this is a safe way to get trashed, because “once the pressure is returned to normal, the intoxication wears off,” meaning it’s safe to drive home. Or go get a drink at a real club. What do you think?

Club Narked to Deliver “Natural Intoxication” – Divester

Backstage and guided tours of Disney World parks are offered mostly on weekdays, and sometimes only two or three days a week. Many of them are closed to guests under 16, and most require separate admission to the appropriate park. No photography is allowed in backstage areas. Disney doesn’t provide complete listings of times and costs on its Web site (you can find some listed by searching on “tours”), but you can get information and book them by calling 407-939-8687. General Walt Disney World information: 407-939-6244, http://www.disneyworld.com/

How to Go Behind the Scenes at Disney World’s Parks

Are you a scuba geek? Or did you ever wonder Why Two High Tides a Day? or Why people breathing helium have the “Donald Duck” Effect when they talk? Then this is the site for you. Scubageek is a collection of articles on scuba science that are written with humor to get you past the math and physics.

Scuba Geek – Divester

Two scuba divers were pulled from the ocean Saturday in separate incidents within minutes of each other in La Jolla, a lifeguard lieutenant said.

About 11:30 a.m., lifeguards were called to the area of La Jolla Shores, where a diver was spotted floating face-down in the water by her dive master, Lerma said.

Two scuba divers rescued in La Jolla incidents

If you’re on the hunt for some dive site information, then you might want to check out the aptly named dive site directory. Begun by Clare and Matthew Slightam as a free source of reference for the diving community, it’s a great resource for divers trying to scrape together information about potential dive destinations, especially those that are a bit off-the-beaten-path. When it began, dive site directory featured only 80 dive sites covering 3 countries. Today, it houses over 510 dive sites in 25 countries!

Dive Site Directory — A Directory For Dive Sites – Divester

A recent item on Channelnewsasia.com highlighted the increasing popularity of diving amongst Singaporeans – the idea that it’s an expensive hobby has been thrown off and now many students are signing up to try out scuba. Now Singapore itself is not famed for its pristine waters, so I was wondering where these guys go to dive. Given their country’s location at the end of peninsular Malaysia, Singaporeans have a huge choice of world class, accessible dive spots around them. A quick Google found two established Singapore dive schools – Waikiki Dive and Orpheus Dive.

Singapore Scuba Diving – divehappy.com: Scuba Diving In Thailand and South East Asia

Unless you live in the Caribbean, and the water temperature is constant, knowing the sea’s temperature in advance of going diving would be great. If that happened, you could select accurately your exposure protection even before leaving home. In an effort to provide divers along Santa Catalina Island with this ability, Catalina Conservancy Divers (CCD) has installed a number of “temperature devices” (known commonly as thermometers) at multiple locations and depths around the Island.

How-To: Estimate Water Temps Before Diving – Divester