Words are rarely enough — but yours matter. Share your Menduno story, memory, or moment, and help us celebrate the...
When a diving physician becomes his own patient. Andrew Pitkin recounts his brush with spinal decompression sickness — blending firsthand fear, clinical insight, and the hard...
The first twenty seconds under polar ice decide everything—pain, survival, or transcendence. Ricardo Castillo’s journey from Mexico’s cenotes to the ends of the earth reveal the...
In a rare meeting of science and lived experience, Cristina Zenato, Dr. Sara Andreotti, and Dr. Yannis Papastamatiou discuss fear, data, and how divers can turn...
Beneath Florida’s bright waters, biologist and cave diver Tom Morris has spent a lifetime uncovering the secret ecosystems that thrive in eternal darkness — where evolution...
What do teeth have to do with technical diving? More than most divers realize. From barodontalgia to mouthpiece ergonomics, prosthodontist and CCR diver Ana Gonçalves, DAN...
Through thousands of images and six days of computation, a lost submarine reappears. But in Dario Lupi’s haunting reconstruction, what emerges is not just a model...
Sometimes the hardest dives are the ones that never happen. This summer, months of planning for the USS Oriskany—the “Mighty O”—were cut short by Florida’s skies....
Cave Diving instructor and bestselling author Stratis Kas gently re-opens the gas-planning gospel with one provocation: what if Sheck Exley’s iconic Rule of Thirds was never...
Drawing on first-hand debriefs and survey data from tech divers worldwide, this report examines the exact juncture at which they left the loop and why. The...
