Getting caught up in the moment turns a son’s first ocean dive into his father’s last. Losing focus during a dive leads to tragedy for this dad.

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. Another installment in our dive-training series, Lessons For Life.

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?

Ted couldn’t find a dive buddy who liked to dive as he did, so he dived alone. That was fine with Ted — right up until he realized he wasn’t sure how to get back to the surface.