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Research divers work under formal scientific diving safety standards, but a marine science background does not make deep or technical diving inherently safer to attempt.
Jun 14, 2026
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
DAN's annual diving reports track how divers die each year, and the leading cause is rarely the dramatic equipment failure popular imagination assumes it to be.
Jun 19, 2026
A Florida Atlantic University study of free-swimming blacktip sharks off Palm Beach County found the animals could detect low-frequency underwater sounds from 74 metres away and change course in response, the clearest field evidence yet of shark hearing range.
Oct 1, 2026
An olive ridley sea turtle, a tropical species whose nearest known nesting ground is in Baja California, dug a nest near Seal Beach in September, the first confirmed sea turtle nest ever recorded on the US West Coast.
Oct 1, 2026
University of British Columbia researchers combined dive surveys with genetic analysis to describe a red-eyed, three-lipped species that grooms itself with comb-like legs, and a second with an hourglass abdomen and black eyes.
Sep 26, 2026
Sonar and underwater video surveys of the Benin continental shelf found octocorals and reef fish thriving 54 metres down, the first confirmed living mesophotic coral community documented anywhere on the Gulf of Guinea shelf.
Sep 29, 2026
The fourth global coral bleaching event hit 84 percent of the world's reefs. Here is what that means underwater, and what responsible diving looks like now.
Jun 18, 2026
