Smoking and Diving – A Bad Combination
When I was a medical student at Duke University, we all observed the wards full of heavy smokers with lung cancer, heart problems and…
Dive Medicine
Malaria: Know the Facts and Preventative Measures
Many tropical adventures lead divers through foreign lands, where they can be exposed to vectors of diseases not commonly encountered in North America. The…
Stinging Truths, Part 1: A guide to injuries caused by invertebrates
In previous articles in Dive Training (May 1995 and June 1995) we looked at injuries from vertebrate marine animals that can injure humans, most…