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While war graves are intriguing wreck sites for diving history buffs, should they be off-limits to everyone?
We’ve got predive and postdive steps to keep your BC in top-notch working condition. If you want to extend the life of your BC for years to come, follow our maintenance tips:
Follow these predive and post dive steps to keep your regulator in top-notch working condition.
Before you explore your first wrecks, here are a few key pieces of scuba gear you might want to add to your kit.
Proper maintenance of your regulator will prolong the life of your gear and help keep you safe while diving.
Poor communication and an unwillingness to cancel a dive lead to drowning
Two experts weigh in on whether wearing gloves ultimately harms or helps the health of reefs.
Inadequate gear as well as a lack of training and preparation lead to trouble when this buddy dive team try to retrieve a lost anchor
Augusta, GA -- Aggressor and Dancer Fleet, in partnership with Scuba Schools International, are pleased to announce that the SSI Advanced Adventurer Certification is now available FREE OF CHARGE to all guests traveling on a Dancer Fleet or Aggressor Fleet cruise.
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.
Pairing natural navigation with basic compass skills gets you where you need to go.
Feeling marching ants crawling under the skin of my thighs at 60 feet during decompression, it was clear to me that I was bent.
From sleeping sharks to the deepest dives these outrageous dive stories aren't just entertaining. These true stories are sure to leave you curious about the outrageous people behind them!
Scuba Diving Photo Editor reports from the Backscatter Digital Shootout at the Little Cayman Beach Resort
Sixteen-year-old Lucas Barroso’s determination to get his rebreather certification is inspiring
Norman Lancefield is 91 and still an active diver. Read his story, as well as that of Lucas Barroso, Canada's youngest rebreather diver.
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.
A blog for divers who are making a difference in the fight to save our ocean environment through marine conservation.
A collection of quick tips for getting the most out of your underwater camera's macro lens.
Before you explore your first wrecks, here are a few key pieces of scuba gear you might want to add to your kit.
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 ...
An ill-conceived scheme leaves one diver trapped on the bottom with two tanks, but no air.
Bill ran the numbers and decided he could break one of tech diving's cardinal rules of safety. The numbers didn't lie, but they also didn't account for an unplanned emergency.
A diver wins a competition with his friends, but never gets to celebrate his victory.
A close call drills important safety lessons into the head of one lucky diver. Next time, he'll follow instructions. After reading his story, you will too.
After a tragically failed salvage dive, one question remains: What is a diver's legal responsibility to his buddy?
Following a two-year diving hiatus, an instructor forgets some of the basics.
In this tale of two downwellings, the lesson of positive buoyancy becomes tragically clear.
Two lobster divers ascend from a dive to find their boat is nowhere in sight.
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
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