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Is It Safe To Use the Hot Tub After Scuba Diving?

In this edition of Underwater Wellness, we discuss the safety of using a hot tub after a dive and how long to wait between surfacing and taking a post-dive dip.

Lessons for Life: Drugs and Diving Don't Mix

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.

Lessons for Life: Alone in a Crowd

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.

Lessons for Life: A Not-So-Smart Night Dive

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

Lessons for Life: Lose Your Focus, Lose Your Life

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.

Lessons for Life: Fatal One-Way Trip to the Bottom

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.

Lessons for Life: Disobedience Spells Disaster

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

Lessons For Life: Helping Hand?

An experienced diver tries to manage a panicky newer one, with tragic results. Learn from these important Lessons For Life.