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60 stories for“research”

Research divers work under formal scientific diving safety standards, but a marine science background does not make deep or technical diving inherently safer to attempt.

Jun 14, 2026

Diving

DAN's Safety Guidance, Condensed: What the Research Body Actually Recommends

Divers Alert Network is not a training agency and issues no certifications. It collects the injury data, then publishes guidance based on it. Here is that guidance, in the order it matters.

Aug 12, 2026

Diving

What DAN's Diving Fatality Data Actually Shows

DAN's annual diving reports track how divers die each year, and the leading cause is rarely the dramatic equipment failure popular imagination assumes it to be.

Jun 19, 2026

Diving

Blacktip Sharks Can Hear a Sound From Nearly 250 Feet Away and Swim Straight Toward or Away From It

A Florida Atlantic University study of free-swimming blacktip sharks off Palm Beach County found the animals could detect low-frequency underwater sounds from 74 metres away and change course in response, the clearest field evidence yet of shark hearing range.

Oct 1, 2026

Diving

A Sea Turtle Species Never Recorded Nesting in the United States Laid Eggs on a Southern California Beach

An olive ridley sea turtle, a tropical species whose nearest known nesting ground is in Baja California, dug a nest near Seal Beach in September, the first confirmed sea turtle nest ever recorded on the US West Coast.

Oct 1, 2026

Diving

Scuba Divers Find Two New Sea Spider Species in the Salish Sea, the First Described There in Almost a Century

University of British Columbia researchers combined dive surveys with genetic analysis to describe a red-eyed, three-lipped species that grooms itself with comb-like legs, and a second with an hourglass abdomen and black eyes.

Sep 26, 2026

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When Scientists Dive, Credentials Do Not Remove the Risk

DAN's Safety Guidance, Condensed: What the Research Body Actually Recommends

What DAN's Diving Fatality Data Actually Shows

Blacktip Sharks Can Hear a Sound From Nearly 250 Feet Away and Swim Straight Toward or Away From It

A Sea Turtle Species Never Recorded Nesting in the United States Laid Eggs on a Southern California Beach

Scuba Divers Find Two New Sea Spider Species in the Salish Sea, the First Described There in Almost a Century

Results

When Scientists Dive, Credentials Do Not Remove the Risk

DAN's Safety Guidance, Condensed: What the Research Body Actually Recommends

What DAN's Diving Fatality Data Actually Shows

Blacktip Sharks Can Hear a Sound From Nearly 250 Feet Away and Swim Straight Toward or Away From It

A Sea Turtle Species Never Recorded Nesting in the United States Laid Eggs on a Southern California Beach

Scuba Divers Find Two New Sea Spider Species in the Salish Sea, the First Described There in Almost a Century