A beginner's guide to the equipment that makes diving possible.

Family diving is the hottest new trend in scuba, but how do you know whether your child is ready for scuba certification? We've got tips; instead of packing away your gear for good, pack up the spouse and the rugrats and head for the water.

Customizing your dive gear for greater safety and comfort. Plus: 12 "improvements" you should never make.

A diver facing two sharks in low vis discovers that her new buddy is nowhere to be found. Another installment in our dive training series Lessons For Life. For more dive training and safety tips, visit scubadiving.com

Dive Training and Scuba Safety: Neither rain, nor wind, nor dark of night need stay you, diver, from your appointed rounds. Can you dive safely in bad weather?

Dive Training, Safety, Skills and Medicine: How to beat jaw pain and make sure your teeth don't explode under water.

Divers Alert Network answers your questions monthly. For more in scuba diving health, fitness and medicine visit scubadiving.com

How to radically stretch no-decompression limits and live to tell about it. Get more dive training and scuba safety tips at scubadiving.com

In Rescue Diver training, our writer learns to save a diver in distress, and manages to save his pride in the process. For more advanced diving training tips, visit scubadiving.com