Alert Diver Category : DAN était là pour moi

Learn about the unexpected Solomon Islands evacuation during our diving holiday in paradise and its shocking aftermath.

I WAS ON A TRIP TO TULAMBEN to dive the Liberty wreck for three days. The first day was recreational dives followed by two days of technical diving. I had a cold and sinusitis leading up to the trip, but the conditions had cleared up …

My boyfriend, Sean, and I had a day off from the dive shop where we work in Grand Cayman, and we decided to make the most of the beautiful conditions […]

HAVING DONE THOUSANDS OF DIVES since I started in 1964, primarily off the coast of North Carolina, the shipwrecks and dive profiles there are familiar. Overall conditions couldn’t have been much better on this particular day — calm, clear seas with barely a current. We planned on two reverse profile decompression dives at an offshore […]

Read about my journey into diving and the realities of DCI after a training dive. Safety is paramount in this new adventure.

IN 2018 AND 2019, MY HUSBAND AND I traveled to 50 locations in 35 countries over 14 continuous months, spending more than 250 hours underwater to research a dive travel guidebook for National Geographic.

I was 50 years old and had applied to law school. I was anxiously waiting to hear if I had been accepted, so to distract myself I decided to take […]

Alors qu'elle se rendait du camion à l'entrée d'un site de plongée à Bonaire, ma femme, Deborah, s'est coincé le pied sous une racine et a fait une hyperextension de la jambe en se dégageant. Tombant au sol, elle s'est exclamée qu'elle s'était cassé le genou.

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

MON MARI, BARRY, ET MOI avons passé nos brevets de plongée à Cozumel, au Mexique, en 1994, et depuis lors, c'est l'une de nos destinations préférées. Nous avons passé trois semaines à y plonger pendant l'été 2001, en suivant notre routine qui consiste à courir, faire de l'exercice et plonger deux fois par jour.