Planning Your Next Foreign Dive Trip?

—then you had better read what the editor of Undercurrent says All serious divers are eager to get back into the water, and thousands upon thousands are eager to board planes and head to the tropical dive vacations they’ve been dreaming about. Many Undercurrent subscribers have written us, citing a trip they are considering, and … Read more

Considerations Of Oxygen In Diving Gas Mixtures

Oxygen is the most basic life support system our bodies employ, and yet also has the capacity to cause great harm.  Keller (1946) has called oxygen “The Princess of Gases.  She is beautiful but has to be handled with special care”.  We cannot live without it, but in prolonged breathing exposures or in deep depths … Read more

Practical Dive Care

by Mel McCombie We’re on a long dive trip and wondering about some everyday practical things—diving with contact lenses, sun protection—and wondered what others have to say? For example, I dive with soft contact lenses; I notice that during dives, when my eyes encounter sea water, they create mucus (which I delicately term “eye boogers”), … Read more