After two years of preparation, dive partners Bill Gavin and Parker Turner thought they had meticulously planned every last ...

Experts try to piece together final moments of Italians believed to have died inside deep underwater caves in Maldives ...

The University of Genoa said the victims included a marine biology professor, her daughter and two young researchers.

The bodies of two Italian divers have been brought to the surface after the Maldives' worst diving disaster, with two more ...

Diving is a seriously dangerous activity, but not only for the reasons you may think. Decompression sickness, or "the bends," ...

In scuba divers with large patent foramen ovale (PFO), transcatheter closure seems to prevent decompression sickness (DCS), a new study suggests. “According to our data, PFO closure is recommended in ...

A Maldivian military diver died from decompression sickness during a perilous mission to recover bodies of four Italian ...

SCUBA diving has always been a sport of measurement. Whether it’s getting a reading on depth, determining the correct gas mixture or recording time spent underwater, accurate calculations can mean the ...

How do marine mammals, whose very survival depends on regular diving, manage to avoid decompression sickness or "the bends?" Do they, indeed, avoid it? Any diver returning from ocean depths knows ...