Cold water diving poses unique hazards due to how temperature affects our bodies and dive equipment. Experts from DAN weigh in on how to stay safe when diving in cold environments.
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Being overweighted in unfamiliar gear leads to a fatal descent. Sadly, this tragedy spells out how important knowing your dive gear is and how it can mean the difference between life and death.
Making an unplanned and untrained cave dive dooms a pair of inexperienced divers. The latest installment in our dive-training series "Lessons For Life."
An experienced diver tries to manage a panicky newer one, with tragic results. Learn from these important Lessons For Life.
Another case study in our Dive Training series "Lessons For Life": Panicking while diving in kelp and searching for lobster leads to a fatal entanglement.
Staying within no-decompression limits doesn't guarantee 100 percent safety.
The best equipment won't save you if you don't know how to use it.
Two divers enter a cave and only one comes out. Whose fault was it?