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Dive Boat Survival Guide

Follow these tips to return home warm, comfortable and still smiling about the diving.

Scuba Diving from a Kayak

You're captain, divemaster and diver all rolled into one when you make your dives from a kayak. Here are the gear and skills you'll need, and the best sites.

Lessons For Life: Recipe for Disaster

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.

Lessons For Life: The Boat's Gone: Now What?

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.

Lessons For Life: Out of Shape

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: Now That's Using Your Head

Dive Training, Scuba Safety, and Dive Medicine: Dive better and safer by taking care of your noggin.

Dive Training: End Ear Pain

Do you have trouble equalizing your ears underwater? These 6 expert tips will help you clear your ears faster than you can say Valsalva maneuver.

Top 10 Scuba Diving Rules and Safety Measures

Basic scuba diving rules and regulations to stay safe underwater, from your safety stop to diving ascent rate.

Grace Under Pressure: Dealing with Panic Underwater

Panic may be the No. 1 cause of scuba fatalities, and experienced divers are not immune. Here's how to keep your cool when things turn rough under water.