Health And Fitness
In case of emergency
No dive boat should leave port without one, but what oxygen kits are available and how do you use them? Charles Hood finds out
Health Check
Keeping yourself in good working order is as important as maintaining and servicing your dive kit.
Survivor type - Part II
My day started off with a perfectly normal early morning dive trip to Babbacombe. It finished with an early evening blue light ambulance chase to a Bristol hospital Coronary Care Unit with an estimated 10-minute life expectancy.
Survivor type – a special report by Alan James
Life has a way of springing the unexpected on all of us from time to time, My day started off with a perfectly normal early morning dive trip to Babbacombe.
Get fit to dive
Improving your fitness can improve your diving, but where do you begin? Charlotte Boan and personal fitness trainer Becky Hart take a look at how getting your body in shape can improve your underwater performance.
One in three divers has a PFO, do you?
Of the 80,000 divers who read this article, about 25,000 have a minor heart defect called a PFO that makes them up to 13 times more likely to end up in a recompression chamber. But what is a PFO and what can you do about it if you have one? Louise M…
Chill Out - How to beat stress underwater
The chances are that you or someone you know has been stressed out on a dive. It can be triggered by any numbers of things, such as tough conditions or extreme depth. Charlotte Boan asks a panel of diving experts what is stress, its causes and how to...
Beating a bad back
Most of us have felt the odd twinge of discomfort as we’ve staggered down the beach towards the dive site, but for some divers backache is quite literally a pain in the… back! Charlotte Boan goes in search of a remedy ...
Deep vein thrombosis
Divers are all too aware of the potential dangers underwater, but what about the risks they take getting to their dive destinations? Dr Peter Larkin and Allan James give an insight into the much-publicized condition of deep vein thrombosis…
