Researchers have created a new model for predicting decompression sickness after deep-sea dives that not only estimates the risk, but how severe the symptoms are likely to be. The US Navy Diving ...

SYDNEY, March 7 (UPI) -- Medical researchers in Australia have developed a new test to help doctors cheaply, easily and accurately diagnose whether a scuba diver has decompression illness, commonly ...

Decompression sickness, also known as the bends, is a bit of a mystery to doctors because it’s not easy to study what’s happening to human cells at super high pressures far below the sea surface.

Sperm whales routinely dive more than two miles (3 kilometers) below the ocean surface to hunt for giant squid, but a study shows the huge mammals suffer a chronic loss of bone tissue from the bends, ...

The word “scuba” was coined by an American, Dr. Christian Lambertsen, who in 1939 designed a self-contained underwater oxygen breathing apparatus for the U.S. military that was used during World War ...