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 ...

Most of the time, the colors on a watch are simply a stylistic choice. But once in a while, you’ll come across a watch whose colors are meant to serve a purpose. This purpose doesn’t always work out ...

Diving is a seriously dangerous activity, but not only for the reasons you may think. Decompression sickness, or "the bends," can even prove deadly.

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 ...

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 ...