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Dive Training: 8 Tips to Save Air When Diving

Learning to improve air consumption increases your bottom time. Dive training tips for scuba divers.

Ask an Expert: Should Divers Reveal Their Medications?

Does safety trump your privacy rights? Or is lying on the forms ever justified?

Lessons for Life: Solo Diver Never Resurfaces

Ted couldn’t find a dive buddy who liked to dive as he did, so he dived alone. That was fine with Ted — right up until he realized he wasn’t sure how to get back to the surface.

Dive Speak: The A to Z of Dive and Gear Lingo — A

ScubaLab Director John Brumm has devoted decades to to testing scuba gear. In Dive Speak he explains scuba gear terms from A to Z. Today, the letter "A."

What It's Like To Get Bent from Scuba Diving

Jill Heinerth recounts what it's like to get bent or suffer from decompression sickness, or DCS, after advanced scuba diving.

Lessons for Life: Wounded Grouper Strikes Back, Fatally

Danny was having one of the greatest days of his short dive career. Conditions were perfect. Visibility seemed to go on forever. Until the grouper he had just speared knocked his regulator out of his mouth and his mask askew. Suddenly, he was in trouble.

Ask an Expert: Should New Divers Learn Lifesaving?

CPR and life support aren't included in basic scuba training — is just learning to dive enough of a challenge for beginners?

University of Toledo Breaks Dive World Record

The University of Toledo dive team made waves this month when the last member of their team left the 330-gallon “pool” in their Student Union to celebrate as new Guinness World Record holders for the "Longest Continual Dive By a Group of Divers in a Contained Environment."