Diving can be a fantastic experience for children, but it requires careful planning, medical evaluation and safety measures. Here's what you need to know about children and diving.
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Scuba Diving Accidents and Safety Tips: Combine shore diving with poor fitness, unserviced gear, bad judgement and a hangover. Another installment in our dive-training series Lessons For Life.
Three divers watch their dive boat disappear as they drift helplessly in the opposite direction. What would you do? Another installment in our dive-training series Lessons For Life.
Breathing from the wrong gas supply didn't kill Sam — heart disease and obesity got him first. Another case study in our Lessons for Life dive training series.
Dive Training, Scuba Safety, and Dive Medicine: Dive better and safer by taking care of your noggin.
Is it carbon dioxide buildup, sinus trouble, tension or decompression illness that's crunching your skull?
In the low visibility of a busy river channel, one diver loses his way and his life.