Diving without a boat can be as easy as a day at the beach if you know how to do it like a California native. Here's how West Coast divers handle the surf.

Not afraid of the dark, are you? Conquer your fear of night diving with our 12 essential rules for after-hours fun. Plus: Nine nights you'll never forget and four lights you shouldn't dive without.

There's more to diving than "60 feet for 30 minutes, back on the boat with 500 psi"; if you have the right tools, training and mind-set for the expanding world of recreational tech diving.

Follow these tips to return home warm, comfortable and still smiling about the diving.

You're captain, divemaster and diver all rolled into one when you make your dives from a kayak. Here are the gear and skills you'll need, and the best sites.

Scuba Diving Accidents and Safety Tips: Combine shore diving with poor fitness, unserviced gear, bad judgement and a hangover. Another installment in our dive-training series Lessons For Life.

Three divers watch their dive boat disappear as they drift helplessly in the opposite direction. What would you do? Another installment in our dive-training series Lessons For Life.

Breathing from the wrong gas supply didn't kill Sam — heart disease and obesity got him first. Another case study in our Lessons for Life dive training series.

Dive Training, Scuba Safety, and Dive Medicine: Dive better and safer by taking care of your noggin.