No amount of eagerness to dive should ever make you skip any pre-dive safety checks. Here's what happened to one diver who learned that lesson the hard way.
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Staying within no-decompression limits doesn't guarantee 100 percent safety.
The best equipment won't save you if you don't know how to use it.
Two divers enter a cave and only one comes out. Whose fault was it?
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.
Danny was having one of the greatest days of his short dive career. Conditions were perfect. Visibility seemed to go on forever.
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.
Another case study in our Dive Training series "Lessons For Life": Far exceeding recreational limits leads to death for a new diver.