IN the past few years the sport of "skin diving" (both with and without underwater breathing apparatus) has found many enthusiastic adherents in the general populace. Unfortunately, there has not been ...

The first patient's symptoms developed after he surfaced, he was treated according to the US Navy treatment table 6. He also received steroids for almost 3 weeks. His MRI of the brain and spinal cord, ...

The diver was flown in critical condition to hospital and put in a hyperbaric chamber in Christchurch. He has thanked his diving buddies, police, Wellington Free Ambulance, and Life Flight Trust for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...