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...
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...
by Douglas Ebersole, MD. Photos courtesy of Watson Clinic, Lakland, FL. Surprisingly, the proposal that rebreather divers 45-years and up have an annual cardiac health evaluation...
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...
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...
Now that pools are getting busy again for spring and summer training, we thought it fitting for us to take a deep dive into pool chemistry....
Compared to Frenzel equalization used by freedivers, Valsalva equalization can be hard on the ears and eustachian tubes, and could cause problems for tech divers with...
Active thermal heating systems will keep you warm in cold water and improve diver safety, but can they also increase your risk of getting bent? Our...
Though your chances of getting bent are relatively low, your risk increases five to 13-fold in the presence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO), which may...
Join Dr Manuela Schoch, diving medicine physician, anesthesiologist, and GUE diver, as she talks about how Covid-19 can affect us as divers.
