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Is Getting a Catch Worth Your Life? Holding on to a speared fish causes this diver to drown.
Despite off-gassing, flying after diving worsens decompression symptoms this diver didn't recognize
We’ve got advice on how to navigate through a kelp forest. Some of the world’s best diving can be found in kelp forests, but this can be an intimidating environment, especially the first time. Here are our tips for enjoying this spectacular habitat and its many rewards.
Sixteen-year-old Lucas Barroso’s determination to get his rebreather certification is inspiring
Here are 10 night-diving tips that will help you stay safe and get the most fun out of your next after-hours excursion.
Norman Lancefield is 91 and still an active diver. Read his story, as well as that of Lucas Barroso, Canada's youngest rebreather diver.
The 2011 Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society
European Rolex Scholar, Erin McFadden, blogs about her experiences
Each year, the DOGs – as in DUI Owners Group – participate in a nation-wide road trip that allows thousands of divers to experience drysuit diving for the first time.
Two experienced divers debate whether the dive industry should mandate the use of redundant air systems.
Basic dive planning, and a simple dive flag, might have averted this disaster.
How trained tech divers use lines and reels to find their way into wrecks--and out of trouble.
The hottest, coldest, longest, deepest and highest dives in the world. These are the stories of the world's superlative sites, the people who pioneered them, and how you can follow their lead and find your own adventure.
The risks of DCS, running low on air and nitrogen narcosis increase as you go deeper. That's why you need our plan.
Once taboo even to talk about, today proper deco procedures should be part of every diver's skill set.
Decompression diving can take you to greater depths, and your skills to a whole new level. Are you ready to push the limits?
Should you breathe air, nitrox or trimix? It depends on the dive. See how nitrox and trimix stack up against the stuff you're used to inhaling.
Join DAN this June for Diver Safety Month and pick up some skills that just might save your life.
Got a great underwater image? Here's how to get it noticed by photo editors and make money from your hard work.
Ocean Corp. gets divers ready for a dream career seeing the world
For an unexpected way to see the world, train to be an NDT inspector
The 2011 Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society
European Rolex Scholar, Erin McFadden, blogs about her experiences
On a routine practice dive in zero visibility, discovery of a high-school ring leads to the closing of a missing persons case for police divers
Do you have what it takes to dive inside a water tower, nuclear reactor, shark net or beneath 20 feet of polar ice? Meet the people who do.
Fifty years ago, a career in diving meant joining the U.S. Navy. Today, people face a wide range of options for diving careers. Commercial divers must be able to thrive under harsh conditions and require education beyond open-water certification.
What drives poachers and pros to risk polluted water, snake bites, gator attacks and accidental drowning? As much as $100,000 a year.
June 2007 By Moira Honeyman Photography by Tim Calver I'm not sure why this thought comes to me, but kneeling on the sand in 40 feet of water, literally surrounded by Caribbean reef sharks, I decide it's best if I don't look ...
From the May, 2008 issue of Scuba Diving Magazine. A head-spinning ear injury causes an abandoned diver to lose his only route to survival.
This poorly answered question exposes a group of divers to a deadly situation.
Diving accidents are predictable, and therefore, avoidable. Here's how to stop them in their tracks.
A diver ignores an instructor's advice and proves that his dive skills are dwarfed by his ego.
Inadequately trained divers make an inadequately planned wreck penetration and suffer the consequences.
CPR and life support aren't included in basic scuba training — is just learning to dive enough of a challenge for beginners?
Conservation agencies say no, so why do so many divers do it anyway?
CO testing is recommended, not mandatory, and poisonings are not recorded — but is there really cause for alarm?
One author says dive-training agencies should teach SMB use, not mandate it, while another says you never really know when you might need it
Like automobile drivers in some states, should divers be required to recertify at regular intervals?
Two instructors debate what age is best to start kids on their way to dive certification.
Two instructors discuss the merits of rescue course, and whether it should be required for all divers
Two experienced divers debate whether the dive industry should mandate the use of redundant air systems.
Two underwater photographers debate whether muck sticks should be used when diving
Our experts debate whether Discovery Channel’s popular annual series is educational or just entertainment at the sharks’ expense
























































