In the old days of brass helmets and dangerous depths, Phil Fatolitis was a model of macho. Now he’s a model of longevity.  Read More →

H.Schwartz of the Hyperbaric Treatment Center at the University of Hawaii reports an interesting finding in the fingernails of saturation divers in a study done in the NEDU at Panama City Florida, USA.  Read More →

He was a war hero – but his family say he was abandoned by his country and left to die in the murky waters of Portsmouth Harbour.  Read More →

Scuba Scouts, students 11 to 18, immerse themselves in science, rescue and exploration, not just fish gazing.  Read More →

For the past 137 years, a mysterious wreck has emerged at low tide each day on a beach off the coast of Panama. Researchers now know that it’s the presumed lost “Sub Marine Explorer,” one of the world’s first submarines and a vessel that would ultimately kill its German inventor.  Read More →

CLERMONT — When Bob Tracy took up scuba diving 30 years ago, little did he know that the recreational activity would come into play after he joined the Lake County Sheriff’s Office in 1985.  Read More →

Ocean Gladiator is a collection of scuba stories from Mark Ellyatt. Starting diving ‘properly’ in 1991 saw Mark getting lost at sea during dive 2 of his open water course and then suffering a serious case of the bends on his fourth dive. Surprisingly he was not put off.  Read More →

Bangladeshi scuba diver Abul Khaer has become a hero in his home country for his daring dives to locate the victims of ferry disasters  Read More →

Christian Francis, the owner of Lebanon Divers dive center had been searching for HMS Victoria, the flagship of the British Mediterranean Feet since 1996.  Read More →

Article by the Peter Steinhoff, Sweden © Peter Steinhoff 2002-2003 | www.dir-diver.com  Read More →