Decompression stops are vital to diving, as they let nitrogen safely leave the body. Skipping one can cause serious health issues, like decompression sickness.
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Resuming diving after surgery should be assessed on a case-by-case basis and depends on complete recovery.
Freedivers need to follow safety protocols as much as divers. In this Lessons for Life account, Eric Douglas shares the story of a diver who suffers shallow-water blackout on a dive.
Eighteen dives into a liveaboard trip, an equipment malfunction pushes a diver 90 feet to the surface in about 15 seconds—a rate of about 6 feet per second.
ASK DAN: What should I do before and after diving to avoid accidents?
The excitement of a new experience causes a missed predive safety check, triggering an emergency at the start of a night dive.
A diver’s buoyancy is dynamic, constantly altered by pressure as the diver ascends and descends.
A new diver commits a cardinal sin: ignoring ear pain during descent. Divers should equalize early and often and never brush off ear pain.