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Navigate the crucial aspects of Health & Safety in the diving world. We provide the latest news, research, and guidelines to ensure your underwater adventures are safe and enjoyable. We cover the vital information every diver needs to know.

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A scuba diver underwater carefully deploying a delayed surface marker buoy as part of their essential safety gear.
Emergency signaling devices: 4 essential tools – by DAN World
Divers Mikko Paasi and Norrased Palasing reach the scene
Tham Luang divers join Laos gold-prospecting cave rescue mission
Docking area in Degnen Bay on Gabriola Island, BC
Two BC scuba divers die within days
The Finnish recovery divers (DAN Europe)
Sandbank likely diverted ill-equipped divers to cave dead-end
Finnish recovery diver Sami Paakkarinen (DAN Europe)
CCR recovery divers locate all 4 bodies in Maldives cave
Rottnest Island bay (Ndaaunhi)
White shark suspected as freediver dies from injuries
Cave-diving (DAN Europe)
Finnish cave-divers reach Maldives on recovery mission
Entrance to the cave-site (Shaff Naeem)
Five Italian divers die in Maldives cave disaster
Evening get-together (Chamber Day 2026)
Divers do chamber proud with $200k effort
Diver Jocelyn Brown with her son
Flag up but boat-strike kills Florida Keys diver
Figures can be seen jumping into the water as fire starts to spread on Emperor Explorer (Eliška Hoffmannová)
Emperor Explorer lost to fire in Maldives
Diver died in Bimini (Nicolerich123)
Speardiver prop deaths in Bahamas and Bali
Diver Brian Pethke recovers in hospital from his traumatic experience
Runaway boat struck diver’s leg: diving doctors saved his life
Jackdaw Quarry, site of the Capernwray Diving Centre (Karl &Ali / Capernwray Diving Centre)
Diver died after IPO caused panic at surface
The diver was found off Samcheok beach in Eastern Korea (P Camp)
12hr drift as currents hit diver in Korea
View from Tory Island (Andreas F Borchert)
IPO likely factor in deep wreck-diver’s death
Charged with attempted murder: Avery Nissen (Hawaii Police Department)
Stabbed snorkel-boat captain went back to rescue assailant
Divers went missing off Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island (Sarah Barry)
Two divers endure 22hr Coral Sea drift
Dumbbell-shaped Bijindo Island (Google Maps)
2 scuba deaths & snorkel-boat knife attack 
Where the trouble begins: how to avoid common scuba problems
Scuba divers separated from boat (Charlotte County Fire & EMS)
Scuba divers cling to buoy after boat swept away 
Is Breast Pain a Symptom of Decompression Sickness? | Ask DAN
Doug Allan and humpback whale, Tonga (Sue Flood)
‘Underwater anywhere’: Ace diver-cameraman Doug Allan dies
American crocodile (Q Phia)
Crocodile bites diver on Cozumel swim
Coast Guard boat (Cayman Islands Coast Guard)
Community rescue as Caymans club dive-boat capsizes
Geoff Yeadon in 1978, from the film The Underground Eiger (Yorkshire TV)
Pioneering UK cave-diver Geoff Yeadon dies
Japanese island of Bentenjima (Wakimasa)
9 Japanese divers rescued after coldwater drift
Stephanie Holter surfaces near the motor-boat (Abyss Explorers)
Clash after scuba diver dragged up by boat
PLBs used on boats should be registered by 15 April (MCA)
Divers can get ‘rescue headstart’ by registering PLBs now

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