No photo or footage is worth losing your life. Learn how to take essential precautions when diving.

Pressure leads to panic when failure to equalize causes diver to make fatal mistakes.

A diver thought he was feeling great on his dive, but he did not realize the trouble he was getting himself into. See what mistakes he made, and what you can do to avoid getting bent.

A one-hit wonder suffers fatal consequences from his habit. See how one diver didn't surface because he thought it was OK to get stoned before a cave dive.

Seven scuba divers enter the water for a wreck dive, but only six returned alive. Learn how to stay safe and avoid dive accidents in this latest installment of Lessons for Life.

There’s nothing underwater worth risking your life — whether it’s money, jewelry or a cellphone.

Getting caught up in the moment turns a son’s first ocean dive into his father’s last. Losing focus during a dive leads to tragedy for this dad.

Being overweighted in unfamiliar gear leads to a fatal descent. Sadly, this tragedy spells out how important knowing your dive gear is and how it can mean the difference between life and death. Another installment in our dive-training series, Lessons For Life.

Making an unplanned and untrained cave dive dooms a pair of inexperienced divers. The latest installment in our dive-training series "Lessons For Life."