Decompression sickness, also known as the bends, is a bit of a mystery to doctors because it’s not easy to study what’s happening to human cells at super high pressures far below the sea surface.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) - When a scuba diver from Bend posted on Facebook a video of her and her colleagues dancing in their diving suits to the song “I’m Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO, she did not expect it ...

SYDNEY, March 7 (UPI) -- Medical researchers in Australia have developed a new test to help doctors cheaply, easily and accurately diagnose whether a scuba diver has decompression illness, commonly ...

Among experienced SCUBA divers, patent foramen ovale (PFO) with certain high-risk echocardiographic features increases the risk of decompression illness, also called the bends. Decompression illness ...

Deep-diving whales and other marine mammals can get the bends—the same painful and potentially life-threatening decompression sickness that strikes scuba divers who surface too quickly. A new study ...

A British tourist struck down by 'the bends' on a scuba diving trip in the Maldives died after it took nine hours to get her to a decompression chamber. An inquest heard Melanie Stoddart, 38, died of ...

Last week I went over the gases that make up the air we breathe. Here’s a quick recap: 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and the final nearly 1% is made of up trace gases. Even though it takes up the ...

Scuba diving is a great family activity to do when on holiday. However, the activity can cause problems such as the bends. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT This is when the swimmer resurfaces too ...

Amy Stone said she had no apology from the instructors, with the trip of a lifetime almost costing her her life A YOUNG British woman was left paralysed from the waist down when she suffered the bends ...

See a great white shark while scuba diving, and you’ll want to flee, even if surfacing quickly may cause decompression sickness – the bends. In the dinosaur era, marine reptiles had a similar problem.

APART from a shark attack, the “bends” are a scuba diver’s worst nightmare. But an underwater wristwatch developed in Scotland could soon give divers ample warning that they are heading for serious ...