The Navy used a new diving suit to recover a sunken drone that enables divers to rise to the surface immediately after hours ...

In scuba divers with large patent foramen ovale (PFO), transcatheter closure seems to prevent decompression sickness (DCS), a new study suggests. “According to our data, PFO closure is recommended in ...

In scuba divers with patent foramen ovale (PFO) featuring high-grade shunts, percutaneous closure is more effective than conservative diving recommendations at preventing decompression sickness (DCS), ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High-risk patent foramen ovale was independently linked to a higher risk for decompression illness in scuba ...

How do marine mammals, whose very survival depends on regular diving, manage to avoid decompression sickness or "the bends?" Do they, indeed, avoid it? Any diver returning from ocean depths knows ...

Whales may be able to get the same decompression sickness that scuba divers do when they surface too quickly from a dive, despite their adaptations to a life in the ocean. The painful and potentially ...