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At depth, you shouldn’t count on your dive buddy to be arms’ length away when you find yourself in a jam while scuba diving. Learning how to rely on yourself first and your buddy second is going to radically improve your chances for avoiding panic — and maybe even survival.

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A modern scuba diving regulator is an extremely reliable mechanism. So reliable, in fact, that keep on delivering air year after year. But you can do a few simple things to help ensure your reg's performance. Here are our tips, plus the latest regs on dive store shelves today.

An algorithm is the mathematical formula a dive computer uses that factors in real-time measurements of depth, gas mix, time at depth—and, depending on the algorithm, potentially lots of other data—to calculate how long you can stay under water with a reasonable degree of assurance that you won’t get hit with decompression sickness (DCS).