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Lessons for Life

Lessons for Life: Safe Cave Diving

Two divers enter a cave and only one comes out. Whose fault was it?

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.

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.

Lessons for Life: Ignoring Clues Leads to Chamber

Another case study in our Dive Training Series "Lessons For Life": A diver ignoring a nagging pain in her shoulder and neck spends some time in the chamber. What lessons can you learn from this dive accident?

Lessons for Life: Lack of Training, Prep Spells Doom

Another case study in our Dive Training series "Lessons For Life": Far exceeding recreational limits leads to death for a new diver.

Lessons for Life: Save your eardrum

How understanding the process of clearing your ears can help you save an eardrum.

Lessons For Life: Worth the Catch?

Another case study in our Dive Training series "Lessons For Life": Holding on to a speared fish causes this diver to drown.

Lessons For Life: Safe to Fly?

Despite off-gassing, flying after diving worsens decompression symptoms this diver didn't recognize

Lessons for Life: Diver Down

Another case study in our Dive Training series "Lessons For Life": Basic dive planning, and a simple dive flag, might have averted this disaster.