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What You Need to Know About Deep Diving

Extra training and preparation is necessary to safely enjoy the wonders of the deep.

What It’s Like to Work as a Dive Guide

Here’s what your divemaster’s life looks like, from sunrise to sunset.

How to Navigate Underwater While Scuba Diving

In a PADI Underwater Navigator course, you’ll learn how to find your way along the seabed using a compass, fin kicks and other tricks.

How to Start Kids Scuba Diving

The PADI Seal Team program lets kids eight and older learn scuba diving fundamentals.

Trouble at 100 Feet | Lessons for Life

A cardiac event at depth highlights the importance of training for diving physically, not just mentally.

Do Shark Feeding Dives Impact Other Fish?

In this edition of Ask a Marine Biologist, Dr. David Shiffman answers a question about how divers feeding sharks impacts the broader ecosystem.

How I Overcame my Fear of Water by Learning to Scuba Dive

How one woman overcame her childhood fear of the ocean after taking a trip to the alluring island of Ko Phi Phi, Thailand as an adult.

Check Mate? | Lessons for Life

Complacency leads a diver to start a dive with only reserve gas. It does not take long for the dive to spin out of control.