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Lessons for Life: Lose Your Focus, Lose Your Life

Getting caught up in the moment turns a son’s first ocean dive into his father’s last. Losing focus during a dive leads to tragedy for this dad.

How To Prep Your Brand-New Dive Computer for Scuba Diving

Before you get in the water with your brand-new dive computer, here are our best tips for prepping it so that it's ready for its first scuba dive.

Lessons for Life: Fatal One-Way Trip to the Bottom

Being overweighted in unfamiliar gear leads to a fatal descent. Sadly, this tragedy spells out how important knowing your dive gear is and how it can mean the difference between life and death. Another installment in our dive-training series, Lessons For Life.

What It's Like To Dive In Near Freezing Water

Thinking about getting your drysuit certification? Read what it's like to get certified in the freezing-cold waters in England. This advanced dive certification may be a challenge, but it unlocks a new realm of underwater adventure.

Survive Any Dive Catastrophe!

Overpowering currents! Raging storms! Marauding sharks! Your dive instructor never mentioned you'd have days like this. Here's how to get home safely.

Scuba Tank Markings: What Do They All Mean?

Here's why you should care about what's stamped on the the outside of a scuba tank and how to decipher what it means.

What It's Like: To Recover Plane Crash Victims

Did you remember hearing about the Lao Airlines flight that crashed this past October? Jennifer Meszaros, an ethnographer, details what took place after the accident that killed all 49 people aboard.

Imaging Plus: Mind Your Manners

Are you an aspiring underwater photographer? Do you want to be able to take pictures at dive sites like Bonaire? Imaging Plus columnist and underwater photographer Jim Decker provides expert advice on gear and imaging techniques to perfect your photos. Want more imaging advice? Go to scubadiving.com.

10 Wackiest Daredevil Scuba Dives

Bored with your "normal" scuba diving routine? Here are 10 of our favorite wacky and wild ways to play and work underwater.