Beyond the Acrylic
There is a moment in every dive — after the gear is checked, the team gives the final OK, and your body slips below the surface — that everything else fades.
Alert Diver Category: Advanced Diving
Saturation Diving
What is saturation diving? When the diver breathes in inert gas, it dissolves into the body’s tissues and reaches equilibrium with the ambient pressure at the diver’s depth.
Military Diving
Military diving has ancient roots and today, is considered an elite classification. Military diving entails risks and responsibilities that go far beyond typical diving. Read more about the history of military diving and how it evolved.
Shore Thing
Aside from allowing me to avoid that sunrise alarm, shore diving offers other freedoms as well: the last-minute choice of a dive site, the ability to do a two-hour dive without worrying a boat crew and the liberty to add a dive to my day if conditions allow. As an added benefit, beach diving can be quite economical compared with boat diving. And some of the most incredible sites in the world are most easily dived from the beach
Answering the Call
Accidents and incidents occur worldwide that leave victims beyond the reach of standard rescue techniques. These events often happen in or near the water and may require the assistance of specially trained personnel.
Assessing and Assisting Florida’s Coral Reef After Hurricane Irma
In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, science divers from multiple state, federal and independent organizations evaluated the health of the 360-mile-long Florida Reef Tract. Learn more about their discoveries and this effort.
Dive Skills for Underwater Photographers
Most scuba divers become passionate about underwater photography once submerged in the underwater world. Here are some great tips to up your underwater photography game.
Five Lessons for Cold-Water Diving
Cold-water diving presents new challenges to divers, so they need the correct gear and the correct mindset. With these considerations in mind, they can prefect the cold-water dive.
Freediving Safety
People outside of the freediving community consider it to be a dangerous, extreme sport, but following proper safety protocols makes it quite safe.
Combat Divers
Combat divers must successfully navigate in cold, dark water to secretly arrive at a target. This skill requires progressing from basic dive skills to navigating over long distances in difficult conditions.
