Chris Lemons was a saturation diver for 10 years working on oil fields on the North Sea floor. Now, Lemons is a supervisor, who gives instructions to divers and is responsible for keeping them alive.

In an instant, the compressed air inside the chamber explosively decompressed, violently tearing through the confined space. Four divers were killed immediately, their bodies subjected to forces far ...

On November 5, 1983, four saturation divers were working 265 feet below the surface under nine times normal atmospheric pressure. Decompression that should have taken four days happened in less than a ...

A sailor with the Navy Experimental Diving Unit at Naval Support Activity Panama City, Fla., tests the capabilities of new diving gear, known as the Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression Suit ...