by Douglas Ebersole, MD. Photos courtesy of Watson Clinic, Lakland, FL. Surprisingly, the proposal that rebreather divers 45-years and up...
Scuba diving has been shown to be an effective, adjunct therapeutic tool for treating individuals suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Here, multiple trauma survivor, author...
Unfortunately, it’s hard to make a business case for treating divers versus wound and burn care victims. As a result, many hyperbaric chambers in the US...
Divers still seek comfort in the notion of the “underserved” hit to explain unexpected incidents of decompression sickness. “Hey, my computer said I was fine.” NOT....
April is Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month in the United States. To honor those impacted, Holly Gibbs presents InDEPTH readers with a true story of...
There’s been a long running debate as to whether oxygen is a narcotic diving gas. Training agencies CMAS, GUE, PADI and PSAI include O2 in their...
His new book, Between The Devil and The Deep, which was released last summer, delved into the ordeal of British cave instructor Martin Robson, who suffered...
Decompression sickness (DCS) is a known risk for compressed gas divers, but until recently it wasn’t on the radar for their breath-hold counterparts. However, as a...
The "Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy" summarized it neatly: Don’t Panic! For good reason: taken together panic/anxiety/stress have been ranked as one the top three risk...
Dr. Alessandro Marroni and his team are preparing to test their real-time diver monitoring system that has been more than 50 years in the making. Called...
