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Popular Mechanics
December 2006
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Seeking New Depths High-tech test dive: Will the spread of bubble-free rebreather systems change diving forever?   |
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... |
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? |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
U.S. CPSC
December 23, 2009 |
Scuba Regulators Recalled by Cressi Due to Risk of Drowning Partial obstruction of the High Pressure (HP) port can produce an inaccurate reading on the pressure gauge, resulting in a slow descent of the needle in the pressure gauge. The inaccurate reading on the gauge poses 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. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Bob Parks |
Kirby Morgan 57 Helmet: Don't Dive in Deep and Disgusting Waters Without It The 32-pound fiberglass and carbon-fiber helmet protects the wearer's skull from injury and insulates against heat, cold, and electrical charges. |
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... |
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. |
U.S. CPSC
February 22, 2005 |
Head USA Inc. Recall of SCUBA Diving Computers The dive computers were improperly calibrated, resulting in incorrect calculations. Diving with an improperly calibrated dive computer can provide inaccurate "No Decompression (no stop) Time," "Decompression Time," "Desaturation Time" and "No Fly Time." This could result in divers suffering serious injuries, including decompression sickness. |
U.S. CPSC
September 10, 2008 |
Aqua Lung Recalls Scuba Regulators and Adapters Due to Drowning Hazard Over-tightening of the DIN retainer by a technician during installation can result in the retainer breaking under pressure, a rapid escape of air from the scuba cylinder, and the regulator detaching from the scuba cylinder. This poses a drowning hazard to divers. |
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. |
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. |
U.S. CPSC
April 13, 2010 |
Tabata USA Recalls Scuba Regulators Due to Drowning Hazard The first stage balance chamber plug can loosen from the scuba regulator causing a high-pressure leak and creating unstable pressure. This poses a drowning hazard to divers. |
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. |
U.S. CPSC
August 29, 2007 |
M&J Engineering Recalls Swivels for Scuba Diving Masks Due to Drowning Hazard The swivel, which is attached to a diving mask, could separate while diving. This will result in a sudden loss of the diver's air supply, potentially causing a risk of decompression sickness or drowning. |
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. |
U.S. CPSC
February 5, 2003 |
UWATEC AG Recall of 1995 Dive Computers Software in the dive computers may inaccurately calculate desaturation times, resulting in possible decompression sickness under aggressive dive conditions. |
Outside
August 2003
Michael Roberts |
Domestic Abyss Why jet to exotic reefs when home waters boast spectacularly diverse diving? |
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. |
| CEO Traveler |
Divers' Paradise Diving in Harbour Village, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, The Caribbean |
U.S. CPSC
December 3, 2002 |
Scuba Regulators Recalled by Oceanic USA Extreme vibration can occur within these CDX regulators, which can cause an air leakage underwater. Divers could run out of air and drown. |
