Diving
Who Pays When a Dive Goes Wrong Far From Home
Diving emergencies far from shore involve costly medical evacuations and coordination. Here is how that response is actually funded and organised, and who calls the shots.
Jun 25, 2026
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Diving
Freediving Versus Scuba: What Each One Actually Asks of You
One demands breath control and stillness, the other demands equipment discipline. Here is what separates them and where beginners should start.
Jun 24, 2025
Diving
Lumens Are the Number on the Box and the Least Useful Thing About a Dive Light
Manufacturers compete on brightness because it is a single large number. Underwater, beam angle, burn time at full output and the switch you can operate in gloves decide whether a torch is any good.
Sep 5, 2026
Diving
A Diver Died at a Malta Tuna Farm. Investigators Suspect a 60kg Fish
Redeemer Grima, 41, was working 30 metres down at a fish farm off St Paul's Islands when he drowned. His equipment was later found lodged in the mouth of a dead bluefin tuna.
Aug 12, 2026
Diving
Can You Get the Bends From Freediving? Yes, and Here Is How
The old assumption was that one breath cannot load enough nitrogen to matter. Repetitive deep dives with short surface intervals disprove it, and the divers it happens to are usually working, not competing.
Aug 12, 2026
Diving
The Blue Hole at Dahab: Why Experience Level Decides Everything
Egypt's most famous sinkhole is also its most argued-over dive site. What the Blue Hole actually is, and why so much depends on who is diving it.
May 20, 2024
Diving
Three Divers Drifted Off Puerto Galera and Lived. Most of Surviving That Happens Before You Get In
Two men and a woman surfaced from a dive at Canyon Reef, found no boat, and were carried kilometres out. Whether lost divers are found has surprisingly little to do with the search itself.
Aug 18, 2026
