Conventional wisdom holds that diving mammals do not suffer from decompression sickness (DCS). This is based on two key points: first, evolution has allowed them...

The term “fitness to dive” includes a wide range of elements: medical and psychological fitness, appropriate knowledge, adequate physical skills and adequate physical fitness. Breaks...

Whether you’re diving the Antarctic, the chilly U.S. Pacific Northwest or your local lake or quarry, you make temperature one of the components of your...

Oxygen is a primary first aid tool to manage decompression sickness following compressed gas diving1. Securing adequate supplies in remote locations can be problematic given the...

Body Composition: Assessment and Interpretation Body composition has great practical and functional significance for many of us: scientists, clinicians and the general population. It can be...

The Categories of Breath-Hold DivingBreath-hold diving is an in-water activity that exists in an occasionally difficult-to-define realm between swimming and compressed-gas diving. The awkwardness comes...

Diabetes is a disease in which the body is not able to produce or effectively respond to insulin, a hormone that is required to use...