Diving
Hyperbaric Chambers: How Recompression Treatment Works
When a diver surfaces with decompression sickness, a hyperbaric chamber is the only real fix. Here is how recompression works, and where chambers actually are.
Nov 18, 2024
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Diving
DAN's Safety Guidance, Condensed: What the Research Body Actually Recommends
Divers Alert Network is not a training agency and issues no certifications. It collects the injury data, then publishes guidance based on it. Here is that guidance, in the order it matters.
Aug 12, 2026
Diving
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
Diving
Two Technical Divers Die at Lake Constance After 80m Ascent
A woman and her partner, both long-serving members of the European technical community, did not survive an emergency ascent near Ueberlingen on 2 August. The cause is still unknown.
Aug 5, 2026
Diving
Before Booking a Liveaboard, Ask These Safety Questions
DAN warns that remote liveaboard incidents rose sharply in 2024-2025. Divers can reduce risk by checking oxygen, drills, charging rules, exits and evacuation plans before sailing.
Aug 2, 2026
Diving
Entanglement Is a Skill Problem, Not a Knife Problem
Most divers carry something sharp and have never once deployed it underwater. The gap between owning a cutting tool and being able to use one in the dark, with one hand, is where people die.
Aug 12, 2026
Diving
WHO’s New Drowning Plan Moves Safety Beyond Swim Lessons
The PROTECT package treats drowning as a systems failure involving childcare, transport, infrastructure, rescue and climate preparation, not a single bad choice.
Jul 23, 2026
Health
Disabled People Report More Climate Harm, Exposing a Planning Blind Spot
New survey analysis points to greater climate-related health harm among disabled people, strengthening the case for accessible alerts, evacuation and cooling plans.
Jul 24, 2026
Diving
Why Cave Diving Runs on Its Own Set of Rules
Cave diving safety rests on a small set of hard rules built from decades of accident analysis. Here is what those rules are and why the sport enforces them so strictly.
Jun 2, 2026
Diving
Gozo Makes a Strong Case for Europe's Most Practical Dive Week
Compact geography, shore access, wrecks and a new six-person hyperbaric unit make Gozo an unusually practical Mediterranean base for a mixed-experience dive trip.
Jul 25, 2026
Diving
The Safety Stop: What Those Three Minutes Are Actually Doing
Three minutes at five metres is drilled into every diver and explained to almost none of them. It is not decompression, it is not required, and skipping it is not the emergency people assume.
Aug 9, 2026
Diving
Decompression Sickness: What Happens in the Body, and Treatment
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
Diving
Italy Honours the Finnish Divers Who Finished the Maldives Recovery
Sami Paakkarinen, Jenni Westerlund and Patrik Grönqvist received Italian state honours for a recovery mission defined by preparation, restraint and humanity.
Jul 25, 2026
Diving
Aqaba Is Building a September Meeting Point for the Middle East's Blue Economy
Aqaba Blue: Ocean Future in Action runs September 9-12 with diving, conservation, marine technology and tourism. Its value will depend on turning networking into regional practice.
Aug 2, 2026
Diving
Is Scuba Diving Safe? A Beginner's Honest Answer
Scuba has real hazards, but recreational diving within training and conditions is a managed-risk activity, not the extreme gamble suggested by rare accident headlines.
Jul 25, 2026
Diving
Technical Divers Are Rebuilding Corals Where Sunlight Barely Reaches
NOAA teams outplanted corals at 66 meters during a 2026 Gulf mission. The work shows how advanced diving and laboratory science can restore difficult deep habitats.
Aug 2, 2026
Diving
The Open Water Certification: What It Does and Does Not Qualify You For
An Open Water card opens the door to diving worldwide, but it is a narrower licence than most new divers assume. Here is exactly what it covers.
Sep 9, 2025
Diving
GUE: The Agency That Will Fail You, and Thinks That Is the Point
Global Underwater Explorers standardises equipment, teaches in teams, tests fitness, and hands out provisional passes rather than certificates. It is the most divisive system in diving, and the most internally consistent.
Aug 12, 2026
Diving
PADI, SSI, NAUI, IANTD or GUE: Which Certification Actually Matters
The agencies argue endlessly and the accident data barely distinguishes between them. Here is what genuinely differs, what does not, and the questions to ask a dive centre before you pay.
Aug 13, 2026
Diving
How Diving Accidents Are Actually Analysed: The Four Links in the Chain
Almost every fatality report ends with drowning, which tells you nothing. Investigators use a four-part chain instead: trigger, disabling agent, disabling injury, cause of death. Here is how to read one.
Aug 12, 2026
Diving
Tubbataha Is the Dive Trip You Plan a Year Ahead
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
Diving
IANTD: The Agency That Made Nitrox Respectable
In the late 1980s, teaching recreational divers to breathe enriched air was close to heresy. IANTD taught it anyway, then built the trimix and rebreather syllabi much of technical diving still runs on.
Aug 12, 2026
Diving
Your First Night Dive: What Changes When the Light Goes
The same reef becomes a different site after dark, and so does the diving. Navigation, buddy contact and the way your brain handles a narrow beam all need rethinking before you get in.
Aug 8, 2026
Diving
PADI, Explained Properly: What the Standards Require and What They Do Not
The world's largest training agency is also the most argued about. Setting the snobbery aside, here is what a PADI course actually mandates, where the flexibility sits, and what the card does not cover.
Aug 12, 2026
Lifestyle
Earthquake Safety, Compared: What the Gulf, the US and Europe Actually Tell You to Do
Drop, Cover, Hold On is the near-universal instruction, and the exceptions matter. Here is the official guidance from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Europe, and where it diverges.
Aug 12, 2026
Business
The Gas Shock Reaches Far Beyond the Energy Bill
Tighter LNG supply is reducing gas demand, but the deeper risk runs through electricity, industry, fertilizer and food prices. Energy security is becoming economic security.
Jul 31, 2026
Diving
Inside the DAN Europe Mission That Brought the Maldives Divers Home
Finnish cave specialists, Maldivian coast guard divers and DAN Europe medics carried out a coordinated recovery after the Vaavu Atoll cave tragedy.
May 22, 2026
Diving
Adam Jacoub, Technical Diving Instructor, Dies After Egypt Dive
Technical diving instructor Adam Jacoub died on 18 July 2026 following a dive in Hurghada, Egypt. The circumstances remain under investigation.
Jul 20, 2026
Sports
Glasgow 2026 Opens as the Commonwealth Games’ Big Reset
Ten sports, existing venues and an indoor ceremony make Glasgow 2026 smaller by necessity, and perhaps a working model for an event that nearly lost its host.
Jul 23, 2026
