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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...   |
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? |
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 |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009 |
Breathe Deeply A look at innovative rebreathers that let divers stay underwater for hours longer than before. |
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? |
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
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. |
| CEO Traveler |
Divers' Paradise Diving in Harbour Village, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, The Caribbean |
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. |
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. |
High on Adventure
October 2001 |
Cousteaus Inaugurate New World of Watersports Facility at Hilton Tobago Resort Members of the Philippe Cousteau Foundation presided over the grand opening of the new center of World Of Watersports, Tobago's premier watersports facility this June... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
Outside
August 2003
Michael Roberts |
Domestic Abyss Why jet to exotic reefs when home waters boast spectacularly diverse diving? |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
Inc.
August 2008
Leigh Buchanan |
Legacy: Andre Galerne, 1926-2008 An adventurer's approach to life and work. |
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... |
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... |
U.S. CPSC
May 19, 2003 |
Swimways Corp. Recall of Pool Dive Sticks Children can fall or land on these dive sticks in shallow water and may suffer impalement injuries. |
Outside
February 2008
Jad Davenport |
Andros Barrier Reef This reef is largely unexplored, undisturbed, and crowded with sea life. |
Outside
August 2003
Granville Greene |
Spirited Away Baja's Isla Espiritu Santo conjures up endless scuba sites and miles of sand for camping |
Sports Illustrated
April 25, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Inside Olympic Sports Dashing diver Mark Ruiz took over the indoor nationals with two come-from-behind wins |
U.S. CPSC
February 28, 2007 |
Pelagic Recalls Digital Dive Computers Due to Decompression Hazard A glitch in the computer display can cause divers to enter decompression unknowingly or the diver could ascend prematurely, resulting in decompression sickness. |
U.S. CPSC
July 19, 2006 |
Suunto Dive Computers Recalled Due to Decompression Hazard These dive computers could incorrectly track dive time, which could cause incorrect calculation of decompression requirements. This could lead to decompression sickness. |
Salon.com
Bill Belleville |
Into the jaws of destiny Whatever you think a shark is, you're wrong -- until you look it in the eye. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
November 15, 2007
Logan Ward |
Laser-Based Gadget Finds the Bends for Astronauts, Navy Seals A researcher hopes to build a laptop-size device to detect the onset of decompression sickness, or the bends, on submarines, the International Space Station and dive boats. |
U.S. CPSC
June 22, 2006 |
Oceanic Recalls Digital Dive Computer Due to Decompression Hazard When using the dive computer set for "User Selected Digital Gauge Mode," the "Elapsed Dive Time" displayed can exceed the actual elapsed time under water. This can cause divers to ascend before fulfilling a decompression obligation, resulting in decompression sickness. |
U.S. CPSC
March 22, 2011 |
Ocean Technology Systems Recalls Guardian Full-Face Diving Masks Due to Drowning Hazard The purge assembly on the diving mask can disengage from the regulator, resulting in loss of air to the diver. This poses a drowning hazard to the consumer. |
Salon.com
October 13, 2000
Barbara Raab |
Going all the way Ever wonder why skinny folks die faster in freezing water? Why divers get the bends but sperm whales don't? Oxford professor Frances Ashcroft explains in a new book, Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival... |
U.S. CPSC
October 6, 2009 |
Guardian Full-Face Diving Masks Recalled by Ocean Technology Due to Visor Separation Hazard If significant pressure is applied vertically to the top and bottom of the visor clamp, the clear plastic visor may dislodge causing the mask to flood. |
Inc.
November 1, 2009
April Joyner |
CEO Passions: Competitive Diving Co-founder of GIS Planning and competitive diver Anatalio Ubalde gets a rush free falling without a net or parachute. |
AskMen.com
Amos Kwon |
Bulova Accutron II Snorkel We've found a new dive-style watch that both echoes the beautiful horological past while imparting modern Swiss quality -- the Bulova Accutron II Snorkel Ref. 96B208. |
U.S. CPSC
October 1, 2009 |
Diving Equipment Recalled by Halcyon Manufacturing Due to Drowning Hazard The over pressure valves (OPVs) in the diving equipment could fail allowing the buoyancy compensator devices (BCDs) and the diver lift inflatable devices to leak, posing a drowning hazard to divers. |
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. |
| AskMen.com |
IWC Aquatimer Collection IWC's new Aquatimer collection is a worthy update to the dive watch legacy and is sure to attract the collectors and enthusiasts looking for a versatile and masculine watch. |
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... |
Outside
July 2008
Bucky McMahon |
Where the Walking Shark Lives Pull on a tank in Indonesia's remote Raja Ampat and witness diving's final frontier. |
Outside
April 2005
Julian Smith |
Galapagos Rising This exotic archipelago used to be the sole domain of Darwin fanatics. Not anymore. More than 90,000 tourists visited the Galapagos in 2003, an increase of 31 percent from 2000. |
U.S. CPSC
December 22, 2009 |
Diving Equipment Recalled by Dive Rite Due to Drowning Hazard The over pressure valve springs in the diving equipment could rust and fail allowing the buoyancy compensator devices to leak, posing a drowning hazard to divers. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2002
Matthew Bechard |
Glenn Rufrano - The Man with the Plan Glenn J. Rufrano, who became CEO of New Plan Excel Realty Trust in March, 2000, talks about New Plan's longevity and the company's expanding investor base. |
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. |
AskMen.com
October 18, 2014
Dave Golokhov |
Red Bull's Cliff Divers Are Here To Teach You To Calm Your Nerves The divers were questioned to find out how they get over their nerves in a high pressure situation. We wanted to gather any advice that will translate to our day-to-day challenges. |
