What not to do when you're scuba diving and training tips from Scuba Diving's Lessons for Life column.

How an aggressive scuba diving schedule and overdependence on his computer led to DCS for one scuba diver.

Learn important scuba diving safety rules from a story about a diver dying while trying to set a personal record.

Scuba diving safety tips for identifying decompression illness, DCI, and using rental gear on vacation.

Another case study in our Dive Training Series "Lessons For Life": Panic, claustrophobia and poor decision-making lead to a dive fatality.

DAN's annual report on dive accidents highlights four factors common to fatal accidents. The good news: They're all preventable. Our dive-training tips.

See what scuba diving lessons we can learn from this fatal accident: an inexperienced, out-of-shape diver dies close to shore.

One scuba diver pushes his limits on a liveaboard trip and suffers from decompression illness as a result.

Being unprepared for wreck penetration spells disaster for a showoff dive instructor.