Decompression sickness is a type of injury that occurs when there’s a rapid decrease in pressure surrounding the body. It usually occurs in deep-sea divers who ascend to the surface too quickly. With ...

Decompression sickness happens when nitrogen that is dissolved in the body under high pressure — for example when diving — forms bubbles when pressure reduces. Key symptoms include joint and muscle ...

After making more than 1,000 scuba dives over the past 15 years, Jerry Blaski knew what the pink patch on his skin, blurry vision and nausea meant. The 60-year-old dive instructor from Sayville on ...

Freediving asks men and women to descend as deeply as they can underwater, sustained by a single breath of air. In some cases, divers approach what is called the aphotic zone — the point at which the ...

Surface intervals are usually necessary evils. Repetitive diving demands some decompression time on the boat between dives to allow body tissue to off-gas accumulated nitrogen. It’s like paying a debt ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — The Coast Guard transported two divers reporting symptoms of decompression sickness offshore Pensacola Monday. Reports say one 55-year-old male diver was transported to Spring ...