scuba diving

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A female scuba diver swims near a large orange Gorgonia sea fan and colorful coral with small orange fish at the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

Scuba divers in the Red Sea.

A scuba diver swims underwater wearing a wetsuit and air tank, with a stream of bubbles rising toward the surface.

See the majestic manta rays swimming in the waters of Great Barrier Reef, off the eastern coast of Australia

Explore the spectacular Ningaloo Reef Marine Park, off the coast of Western Australia by scuba diving and snorkeling

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Scuba Diving Physiology.	Grace Young	Nov 07, 2026
	Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness and Other Dive-Related Injuries.	Emily Rodriguez	Mar 10, 2026
	Add new Web site: Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine - Scuba diving: What you and your patients need to know (PDF).	Emily Rodriguez	Oct 14, 2025
	Add new Web site: University of California, Santa Barbara - Scuba Basics: The Ins and Outs of Diving (PDF).	Yamini Chauhan	Feb 07, 2025
	Add new Web site: CORE - Mishaps and unsafe conditions in recreational scuba diving and pre-dive checklist use: A prospective cohort study.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 08, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Fundamentals of scuba diving physics.	Gloria Lotha	Jul 17, 2024
	Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine - Effects of recreational SCUBA diving practiced once a week on neurohormonal response and myokines-mediated communication between muscles and the brain.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 06, 2024
	Add new Web site: MarineBio - Scuba Diving.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 04, 2023
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Scuba Diving Physiology.	Aakanksha Gaur	Mar 01, 2023
	Add new Web site: Dive With Seaman - Best Breathing Technique While Scuba Diving.	Marco Sampaolo	Jun 13, 2018
	Add new Web site: Dive With Seaman - Best Breathing Technique While Scuba Diving.	Marco Sampaolo	Jun 13, 2018
	Add new Web site: HowStuffWorks - How Scuba Works.	Grace Young	Mar 07, 2013
	Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Adventure - How Scuba Works.	Shiveta Singh	Feb 12, 2009
	Media added.	Amy Tikkanen	Aug 28, 2008
	Added new Web site: HowStuffWorks - How Scuba Works.	Deepti Mahajan	Jan 06, 2008
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998