Rebreathers could make an ocean explorer’s ultimate fantasies come true. Recirculating the same air again and again might sound like science fiction, but compared against traditional scuba equipment, ...

The day Zak Jones died, a westerly breeze was picking up and sun glittered on the deck of the 60-foot double-decker dive vessel, Pro Diver II. It was the early morning of Thanksgiving Day 2005, and ...

Yves Lefevre, cinematographer, and Matt Ferraro, lighting technician, dive with closed-circuit rebreathers, allowing them to swim backwards to film divers swimming over the Giant Table Coral without ...

Bill Stone will never forget the day he began to make diving history by immersing himself in Wakulla Springs, a network of submerged caves in northern Florida. On the early afternoon of December 3, ...

Technology is opening all sorts of places to human exploration, including areas of the sea previously too remote to spend much time lingering in. I had occasion to reflect on whether this is a good or ...

Deep Breaths: The author gets some fresh air from a rebreather. Unlike traditional SCUBA, rebreathers scrub CO2 from exhaled air and add oxygen so the air can be inhaled again. For an upcoming piece ...

On Day 18, the team has hopes of diving and filming extensively on their fourth and final day at Pearl and Hermes Atoll, but the weather -- gloomy with gale-force winds -- is not cooperating. They ...