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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Bill ran the numbers and decided he could break one of tech diving's cardinal rules of safety. The numbers didn't lie, but they also didn't account for an unplanned emergency.
In a hurry to be the first person on the wreck, an experienced diver makes a rookie mistake that costs him his life.
In the low visibility of a busy river channel, one diver loses his way and his life.
Is it carbon dioxide buildup, sinus trouble, tension or decompression illness that's crunching your skull?
Dive Training, Scuba Safety, and Dive Medicine: Dive better and safer by taking care of your noggin.
Breathing from the wrong gas supply didn't kill Sam — heart disease and obesity got him first. Another case study in our Lessons for Life dive training series.
Three divers watch their dive boat disappear as they drift helplessly in the opposite direction. What would you do? Another installment in our dive-training series Lessons For Life.