A sudden rash after diving can signal a serious condition. Here's what it could mean—and how to seek treatment.

This means that decompression can take days, or even weeks, under carefully controlled, professionally supervised conditions. Therefore, saturation diving is usually only undertaken by people who ...

IU Diving Safety Officer Sam Haskell manages the diving program at IU. In his lecture, Haskell identified the symptoms and ...

Developed by the French Navy in 1990, the MN90 Decompression Tables remain a fundamental part of professional and recreational dive training, guiding divers on the necessary decompression stops ...

Ascending too quickly would allow expanding gases to bubble through the body, a potentially fatal condition known as decompression sickness or the bends. On a long dive such as Ballesta’s ...

Diving can be a fantastic experience for children, but it requires careful planning, medical evaluation and safety measures. Here's what you need to know about children and diving.

Traditionally, divers had used tables to calculate a dive plan that avoided decompression sickness. Today, even the simplest dive computers track a diver’s depth and time spent at that depth ...

All eventually died. A post-mortem examination revealed that the whales showed signs of decompression sickness (what scuba divers call "the bends"). Decompression sickness can occur when a mammal ...