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Lessons for Life Articles

Lessons for Life: A Not-So-Smart Night Dive

There’s nothing underwater worth risking your life — whether it’s money, jewelry or a cellphone.

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.

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.

Lessons for Life: Disobedience Spells Disaster

Making an unplanned and untrained cave dive dooms a pair of inexperienced divers. The latest installment in our dive-training series "Lessons For Life."

Lessons For Life: Helping Hand?

An experienced diver tries to manage a panicky newer one, with tragic results. Learn from these important Lessons For Life.

Lessons for Life: Panic in Kelp

Another case study in our Dive Training series "Lessons For Life": Panicking while diving in kelp and searching for lobster leads to a fatal entanglement.

Lessons For Life: Know Your Limits

Staying within no-decompression limits doesn't guarantee 100 percent safety.

Lessons For Life: Pride Can Be Deadly

The best equipment won't save you if you don't know how to use it.

Lessons for Life: Safe Cave Diving

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