IN the past few years the sport of "skin diving" (both with and without underwater breathing apparatus) has found many enthusiastic adherents in the general populace. Unfortunately, there has not been ...

This story has been updated to correct a mistake that appeared in the original story. The story incorrectly stated a student from the University of West Florida's Underwater Archaeology program had ...

You must have read about a fisherman from Peru who suffered a case that of the bends after he was rising too quickly from a dive. And because of this his arms and chest ballooned. The man gained ...

A stop-work order on diving at the cleanup site of the salmon die-off in Fortune Bay has been lifted, but a medical specialist in decompression sickness says the number of recent cases involving ...

Scuba diving, while popular, presents unique health risks often underestimated by healthcare providers. Divers must prioritize health screenings, especially those with pre-existing conditions, to ...

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A British tourist struck down by 'the bends' on a scuba diving trip in the Maldives died after it took nine hours to get her to a decompression chamber. An inquest heard Melanie Stoddart, 38, died of ...