Cancer and Scuba Diving
A cancer diagnosis may upend your scuba diving plans, but it is possible to return t o the water after treatments. Read more about cancer and scuba diving.
Alert Diver Category: Features
Divers Losing Access to Emergency Care
Emergency care is vital for injured divers, and yet, hyperbaric medicine programs have rapidly declined. This will immediately impact divers seeking care. Read more about this crisis and what can be done to fix it.
Bipolar: The High Arctic and Antarctica
Diving in the arctic is not an unreachable goal. Whether you travel to the north or south pole — or both! — know what to expect and what you’re up against.
Psychiatric Fitness to Dive
In the diving environment, psychiatric well-being is as important as physical health. Psychiatrist Adam Roth presents a reasoned approach to evaluating dive fitness in the context of common and less-common mental illnesses.
Flower Garden Banks Photo Gallery
Jesse Cancelmo provides a bonus photo gallery of images from Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
Cocos Island
“PURA VIDA!” our dive guide, Sergio, exclaimed with a relaxed smile. Eight dive buddies, Sergio, and I just had an incredible experience: A 35-foot-long whale shark swam a few feet over our heads at one of the better-known dive sites at Cocos Island, Costa Rica. …
Kavieng
As a diver and photographer, I seek remote locations offering unparalleled underwater experiences. The farther away and the fewer the people, the better. Papua New Guinea is such a place.
A Quest for Life
Seemingly crafted for photographers, nudibranchs are slow-moving and vibrant and have adapted to curious shapes and sizes. Aside from their fascinating appearance and cute demeanor, they also play an essential role in science and have been the focus of study for many decades.
North Sulawesi Trifecta
In North Sulawesi, Indonesia there is a sprawling 1,100 miles of coastline. The is home to astonishing coral reefs and a rich diversity of ocean life. Divers have a lot to look forward to.
Women’s Health in Diving
The recommendations for male and female divers are largely the same, but certain considerations should be made for female divers in regard to physical and physiological differences.
