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IEEE Spectrum January 2009 |
Breathe Deeply A look at innovative rebreathers that let divers stay underwater for hours longer than before. |
AskMen.com Anton Henderson |
How To: Get Your Scuba Diving Certification According to the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, more than 500,000 men and women get certified to dive in the open ocean every year. Here's how you can join them. |
Popular Mechanics March 14, 2008 Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Spare Air Is Reverse Parachute of Scuba: Test Dive (With Video) Spare Air is a back up mini-tank with its own built-in regulator that holds just enough air to let you make a safe ascent when scuba diving. |
American Family Physician June 1, 2001 |
Medical Problems of Recreational Scuba Diving Recreational scuba diving is defined as pleasure diving to a depth of up to 130 feet without decompression stops. The most common medical problems are simple "squeezes." These can affect your middle ear or face mask during descent... |
AskMen.com Harry Marks |
Top 10: Scuba Diving Destinations The ability to explore the mysterious sea entices many travelers to visit some of the world's most accessible and picturesque coasts. That's why, with summer nearly here, it's worth checking out the 10 best scuba diving sites. |
CEO Traveler |
Divers' Paradise Diving in Harbour Village, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, The Caribbean |
Fast Company September 2000 Bill Breen |
(Really) Risky Business Wes Skiles is one of the leading practitioners of what may be the world's most hazardous sport: underwater cave diving. There is no injury rate for mistakes made in an underwater cave -- only a mortality rate. So why does Skiles keep diving? |
Outside August 2005 Tim Zimmermann |
Raising the Dead At the bottom of the biggest underwater cave in the world, diving deeper than almost anyone had ever gone, Dave Shaw found the body of a young man who had disappeared ten years earlier. |
Wired August 24, 2009 Sascha Zuger |
3 Smart Things About Hyperbaric Chambers They might provide benefits for several health conditions. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2010 Giselle Weiss |
Dream Jobs 2010: Ernst Vollm, Rapture of the Deep Ernst Vollm makes the dive computer that every aquanaut wants |
Salon.com September 10, 2001 Humberto Fontova |
"The Helldivers' Rodeo" Low on air, hooked to a writhing 300-pound fish and bouncing around 200 feet underwater, even the best spear fishers don't always make it... |
AskMen.com Jason Heaton |
The Dive Watch: Build The Ultimate Watch Collection Unlike that other masculine watch type, the chronograph, a dive watch is almost crude in its simplicity. Built for a singular purpose -- to track elapsed time in adverse conditions -- a dive watch is, by necessity, a big watch and needs no excuse for its boldness. |
Real Travel Adventures August 2006 Antonio Graceffo |
Sihanoukville: SCUBA Diving is Saving Cambodia's Reefs Cambodia is still wild and untapped. An increase in eco-friendly diving and a reclaiming of the reefs will increase tourism, bringing a much-needed economic boost to the depressed local economy. |
Wired December 2004 Jeffrey M. O'Brien |
To Hell and Back Bill Stone has invented diving gear and roving robots to explore the deepest - and deadliest - caves on earth. In the icy water 4,500 feet below Mexico he had to figure out how to bring his dead friend home. |
American Family Physician June 1, 2001 Herbert B. Newton |
Neurologic Complications of Scuba Diving Recreational scuba diving has become a popular sport in the United States, with almost 9 million certified divers. When severe diving injury occurs, the nervous system is frequently involved... |
Popular Mechanics September 2007 Josh Harkinson |
Deadly Coast Guard Dive: What Went Wrong A routine training exercise on a day off from a polar icebreaker ended in tragedy. Coast Guard officials believe the most important lesson to be gleaned from the accident in Alaska is to follow the rules. |
Entrepreneur July 2007 Sara Wilson |
More Than a Mirage Where others saw nothing but desert, a couple looking to train divers saw an ocean of possibilities. |
Inc. August 2008 Leigh Buchanan |
Legacy: Andre Galerne, 1926-2008 An adventurer's approach to life and work. |
U.S. CPSC May 31, 2007 |
Innovative Scuba Concepts Recalls Diving Regulator Components Due to Drowning Hazard The swivel, which is attached to a diving regulator, could separate while diving. This poses a risk of decompression sickness due to rapid ascent, and air embolism or drowning if the diver panics or the emergency ascent procedure fails. |
AskMen.com December 13, 2012 Jason Heaton |
Water Resistance: Watch Fundamentals From those early days of diving to today, we have seen an increasing race to the depths between watch companies, for whom an abyssal depth rating is a sign of prowess and ruggedness. |
High on Adventure August 2003 Patric Douglas |
Shark face-off at Mexico's Isla Guadalupe The big talk lately among divers often centers on Isla Guadalupe and its great white sharks. Divers worldwide have started calling the locale "Great White Heaven." I vowed to see for myself what all the talk was about. |
Outside August 2003 Michael Roberts |
Domestic Abyss Why jet to exotic reefs when home waters boast spectacularly diverse diving? |
Chemistry World August 7, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
The Burning Issue In an effort to clean up fossil-fuel power stations, scientists have completed a project to create ceramic straws that can produce a stream of pure oxygen from air. |
Adventure March 2004 Carl Hoffman |
Wreck Diving's Deep Frontier Recreational divers can now pay to scavenge artifacts from the S.S. Aleutian- and archaeologists are worried. |
U.S. CPSC April 14, 2010 |
Dive Computers Recalled by Mares Due to Drowning Hazard An O-ring in the high pressure air connector can fail and leak air, causing a continuous but slow loss of breathing gas, which could require a diver to surface quickly, posing a drowning hazard to divers. |
U.S. CPSC September 17, 2008 |
Aqua Lung America Recalls Apeks Scuba Diving Regulators Due to Drowning Hazard These regulators can be missing the diaphragm cover which can cause the diaphragm to become displaced during a dive, allowing water to enter the scuba regulator. This poses a drowning hazard to divers. |
Finefishing Saltwater Larry Larsen |
Fish Dive In Florida Finding America's favorite fishing & diving waters |
Outside April 2002 Patrick Symmes |
The Ghost of Shipwrecks Future Diving on lost ships is one thing. Exploring the boat that shadowed your life is a murkier adventure entirely... |
National Defense September 2004 |
Deep Diver Suits Unveiled Offshore divers who require additional protection at underwater construction sites will be the target market for the Hardsuit 1200 deep atmospheric diving systems. |
AskMen.com Tyson Lowrie |
How To Become A Cliff Diver Cliff diving isn't a sport where you can one day decide to say I'm going to go up to a 90-foot cliff and start jumping off of it. It definitely takes years of preparation, says David Colturi. |