A recent scuba diving death off Oahu is serving as a reminder that while scuba diving is widely considered a safe recreational activity, proper training, physical fitness and honest self-assessment ...

Hawksbill turtle and school of grunts over a coral reef in Cozumel, Mexico. Scuba divers always talk to each other about their favorite dive sites. Egypt? Maldives? French Polynesia? Yes, those ...

Every scuba dive starts the same way: Gurgling bubbles and a hissing regulator. Then silence. Signaling “okay” to your buddy, you descend into whatever adventure waits below. After this, there’s no ...

One of the most common diving disorders UAB Emergency Medicine experts see is middle-ear barotrauma, which involves damage to the tympanic membrane in the ear due to a difference in the pressure ...