You're captain, divemaster and diver all rolled into one when you make your dives from a kayak. Here are the gear and skills you'll need, and the best sites.

Scuba Diving Accidents and Safety Tips: Combine shore diving with poor fitness, unserviced gear, bad judgement and a hangover. Another installment in our dive-training series Lessons For Life.

Three divers watch their dive boat disappear as they drift helplessly in the opposite direction. What would you do? Another installment in our dive-training series Lessons For Life.

Breathing from the wrong gas supply didn't kill Sam — heart disease and obesity got him first. Another case study in our Lessons for Life dive training series.

Dive Training, Scuba Safety, and Dive Medicine: Dive better and safer by taking care of your noggin.

Do you have trouble equalizing your ears underwater? These 6 expert tips will help you clear your ears faster than you can say Valsalva maneuver.

Basic scuba diving rules and regulations to stay safe underwater, from your safety stop to diving ascent rate.

Panic may be the No. 1 cause of scuba fatalities, and experienced divers are not immune. Here's how to keep your cool when things turn rough under water.

Nitrox lets you dive longer and deeper, right? What you need to know about diving safely on nitrox and oxygen toxicity.