Sixty years ago next month, four U.S. Navy divers—the first American aquanauts—swam into a seafloor shelter dubbed Sealab I, stationed 59m/193 ft deep, 42 km/25 mi...
Sixty years ago next month, four U.S. Navy divers—the first American aquanauts—swam into a seafloor shelter dubbed Sealab I, stationed 59m/193 ft deep, 42 km/25 mi...
In an era where tech divers routinely experiment on themselves, the notion that hyperbaric scientists did the same to support WWII’s D-day effort may not seem...
From sumping through Wookey with a pair of repurposed, WWII Bomber O2 tanks filled with air; to wearing side mounted, bailout rebreathers enabling explorers to logistically...
Italian shipwreck explorer Fabio Bisciotti and his team have reportedly solved the mystery of the HMS Regent, one of four Rainbow-class submarines built for the Royal...
Should artifacts be removed and recovered from shipwrecks, or should our underwater cultural heritage be left undisturbed? Regardless of what your choice is,, under which circumstances?...
The SOS meter was wildly popular in the 1970s and 80s prior to the advent and broad adoption of electronic diving computers like the EDGE. What’s...
By Emory Kristof. Header image of the B-15 iceberg by Wes Skiles appeared in National Geographic “Islands of Ice” in December, 2001. I first learned about...
Text by Bill Stone, July 28, 2010. Images from Wes Skiles courtesy of the United States Deep Cave Diving team. Header image by Wes Skiles: Looking...
By Fred Garth and Bret Gilliam. This interview, which was conducted in Spring, 2002 was originally published in now defunct Fathoms Magazine (2000-2007) and later published...