Who Pays When a Dive Goes Wrong Far From Home
Diving emergencies far from shore involve costly medical evacuations and coordination. Here is how that response is actually funded and organised, and who calls the shots.
Jun 25, 2026

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Diving emergencies far from shore involve costly medical evacuations and coordination. Here is how that response is actually funded and organised, and who calls the shots.
Jun 25, 2026

The Philippines' remote World Heritage reef rewards careful planning with walls, sharks, turtles and a conservation model built around a short liveaboard season.
Jul 25, 2026

The Maldives is not one dive destination but hundreds of atolls with different currents. Here is how the calendar actually decides what you see.
Aug 9, 2024

Sami Paakkarinen, Jenni Westerlund and Patrik Grönqvist received Italian state honours for a recovery mission defined by preparation, restraint and humanity.
Jul 25, 2026

Divers call it the bends. Doctors call it decompression sickness. Here is what nitrogen bubbles actually do to tissue, and how hyperbaric treatment reverses it.
Feb 14, 2024

Five Italian divers died in a Maldives cave near Vaavu Atoll on 14 May 2026, and a Maldivian rescue diver died during the search that followed.
May 15, 2026

CWT, CNF, FIM, STA, DYN: a plain guide to how competitive freediving is actually judged, discipline by discipline, and why the letters matter more than the depth alone.
Feb 14, 2024
