diving
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The Self-Adjusting Strap On This Dive Watch Tightens As Your Body Compresses
Rolex is known for its industrial-strength Submariner dive watches that can take more of a licking than a Timex. But Tudor, Rolex’s baby brother, might steal its thunder with a watch that tightens around a diver’s wrist the deeper they go.
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12 Deep-Sea Diving Suits To Keep The Ocean From Crushing You
Turns out that, aside from the drill-arm, Big Daddies aren’t that far off from the real thing. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the toughest examples of deep-sea diving suits around — from da Vinci’s cloth prototypes to the bell helmets made famous by countless Scooby-Doo villains.
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The Bends: A Lung-Popping Condition You Do Not Want
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.
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Scuba Inventor (and Gear Innovator) Dead At 93
If you’ve ever donned scuba gear, you owe a bit of gratitude to Christian Lambertsen, who headed to the great reef in the sky yesterday. Lambertsen not only invented the hell out of scuba gear, but coined the term itself.