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.

Thinking about getting your drysuit certification? Read what it's like to get certified in the freezing-cold waters in England. This advanced dive certification may be a challenge, but it unlocks a new realm of underwater adventure.

Overpowering currents! Raging storms! Marauding sharks! Your dive instructor never mentioned you'd have days like this. Here's how to get home safely.

Here's why you should care about what's stamped on the the outside of a scuba tank and how to decipher what it means.

Did you remember hearing about the Lao Airlines flight that crashed this past October? Jennifer Meszaros, an ethnographer, details what took place after the accident that killed all 49 people aboard.

Are you an aspiring underwater photographer? Do you want to be able to take pictures at dive sites like Bonaire? Imaging Plus columnist and underwater photographer Jim Decker provides expert advice on gear and imaging techniques to perfect your photos. Want more imaging advice? Go to scubadiving.com.

Bored with your "normal" scuba diving routine? Here are 10 of our favorite wacky and wild ways to play and work underwater.

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

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