Scuba Diving Accidents and Safety Tips: Combine shore diving with poor fitness, unserviced gear, bad judgement and a hangover. Another installment in our dive-training series Lessons For Life.

Real divers, real stories. And America's leading expert witness in scuba accident litigation has heard them all. Take a seat, take a listen and —most of all — take heed.

Finding competent care far from home can be a dive accident's most dangerous moment.

A training dive goes bad when a buddy team makes all the wrong choices.

The little lies one diver tells about his level of experience lead to big trouble--deep-water blackout.

One family's first post-checkout dive takes a tragic turn.

The emergency skill you've never practiced may be the one you really need.

After a tragically failed salvage dive, one question remains: What is a diver's legal responsibility to his buddy?

Taking a stranger as a buddy, one diver gets more than she bargains for.