underwater diving

Also known as diving, dive

practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment

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Underwater diving is the practice of going beneath the water's surface to interact with the underwater environment. It matters because it allows people to explore and engage with aquatic ecosystems and resources that would otherwise remain inaccessible to them.

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Research

1,412 papers

Underwater and Scuba Diving Accidents.ReviewEmergency medicine clinics of North America · 2024Lambert D, Binkley M, Gaskill ZDOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2024.02.015
Underwater diving.The Medical journal of Australia · 1986Knight JDOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1986.tb101105.x
South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) position statement regarding paediatric and adolescent diving.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2024Elliott E, Smart D, Lippmann J et al.DOI: 10.28920/dhm54.4.338-343
Joint position statement on immersion pulmonary oedema and diving from the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) and the United Kingdom Diving Medical Committee (UKDMC) 2024.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2024Banham N, Smart D, Wilmshurst P et al.DOI: 10.28920/dhm54.4.344-349
Diving medicine.ReviewAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2014Bove AADOI: 10.1164/rccm.201309-1662CI
Medical problems associated with underwater diving.ReviewThe New England journal of medicine · 1992Melamed Y, Shupak A, Bitterman HDOI: 10.1056/NEJM199201023260105
Joint position statement on atrial shunts (persistent [patent] foramen ovale and atrial septal defects) and diving: 2025 update. South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) and the United Kingdom Diving Medical Committee (UKDMC).Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2025Smart D, Wilmshurst P, Banham N et al.DOI: 10.28920/dhm55.1.51-55
[The heart and underwater diving].ReviewArchives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux · 2006Lafay V

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Surface-supplied divers riding a stage to the underwater workplace

Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment. It is also often referred to as diving, an ambiguous term with several possible meanings, depending on context. Immersion in water and exposure to high ambient pressure have physiological effects that limit the depths and duration possible in ambient pressure diving. Humans are not physiologically and anatomically well-adapted to the environmental conditions of diving, and various equipment has been developed to extend the depth and duration of human dives, and allow different types of work to be done.