Bipolar Disorder and Diving

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED about Bipolar Disorder and diving, immersion pulmonary edema, and pain in teeth when diving.

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Underwater Crime Scene Investigators

THROUGHOUT HISTORY, CRIMINALS HAVE LOOKED TO BODIES of water as safe places to dispose of and forever hide evidence of their crimes.

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An Unconscious Ascent

WHILE DESCENDING ON OUR SECOND DIVE, I was at around 60 feet when I unexpectedly started ascending rapidly to the surface.

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A Snail’s Tale

AN EDIBLE, SLOW-MOVING ANIMAL that lives in clear, shallow waters doesn’t have a high chance of survival these days. Conchs, specifically queen conchs, used to be widespread throughout the Florida Keys and the Caribbean.

two women snorkelers with a conch

Body Bar Exercises

STRENGTH TRAINING is a great way to tone and build muscle. These exercises can help your stabilization while moving in scuba gear and around a boat.

model Alexa Frink

It Takes Only One Good Fish

OUR RECENT UNDERWATER ADVENTURE began with a fanciful quest to track down an inconspicuous little fish no larger than a nickel. In many ways our mini mission to find the seldom-seen dwarf seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) seemed more like a weekend lark of carefree youngsters than the stalwart band of seven men and women tugging on wetsuits along the hardpan shoreline of the seldom-explored shallows of Florida Bay in Key Largo, Florida. 

A pregnant male dwarf seahorse

TRAVEL SMARTER : Personal Safety While Traveling

WHETHER TRAVELING DOMESTICALLY OR ABROAD, you can take steps to ensure your personal safety. With proper planning, self-awareness, and some common sense, you can enjoy your destination with relative ease by implementing some of the following personal safety practices. 

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DAN Dispatch: Monitoring Cardiac Health in Scuba Divers

DECOMPRESSION-RELATED EVENTS typically come to mind when thinking of dive injuries and fatalities. DAN Research’s incident analysis program, however, has shown that approximately one-third of dive fatalities can be traced to a cardiac event, making cardiac-related issues the No. 1 cause of fatalities while diving.

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Program Spotlight: DAN Products Make 2022’s Gear of the Year

SCUBALAB RECENTLY AWARDED FOUR DAN STORE products with spots in their 2022 Gear of the Year lineup in the March 2023 issue of Scuba Diving. Test-team divers reviewed more than 100 products across seven categories and awarded the following DAN items high honors for functionality and value.

2022 Gear of the Year Award

Member Profile: Breathing-Gas Giant Jess Stark

FROM THE ARCTIC CIRCLE TO ANTARTICA, if you’ve ever taken a breath from a scuba cylinder, there’s a good chance that cylinder was filled using a Stark Industries breathing-air compressor. For half a century dive operators and fill stations around the world have been using Stark compressors to fill divers’ tanks, trusting their quality to meet daily demands.

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