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To Help the Allied War Effort, These Scientists Got Drunk on Nitrogen

During World War II, British researchers conducted tests on themselves to gauge how submariners' brains would function at extreme depths ... read more

Diver makes haunting discovery at the bottom of worlds biggest ocean sinkhole you should never swim in

The Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize is a popular diving spot, but what's right at the bottom is quite disturbing. read more

A group of WWII-era scientists used themselves as guinea pigs to learn to breathe underwater. Their experiments helped make D-Day possible.

During WWII, scientists breathed CO2, oxygen, and other gases to learn about diving and submarine travel. They helped make D-Day happen. read more

This exec chills out by listening to white noise below the waves

Data management software is all-consuming for Biza.io boss Stuart Low. He achieves inner peace when scuba diving with a multitude of marine life. read more

America's underwater ghost towns: Tales from the deep of bizarre deaths, underwater graveyards and rumors of monstrous beasts lurking in the eerie depths

Underwater footage of some of the more prominent grave sites - where the names of the deceased can still be read on the tombstones - exists today, though at such depths, Nitrogen Narcosis is a ... read more

nitrogen narcosis

In 2002, a scuba diver ran out of air deep inside an undersea cave near the Island of Šolta, in Croatia. To avoid a gruesome drowning death, he supposedly stabbed himself in the chest. Did it really ... read more

The Nitrogen Cycle: Processes, Players, and Human Impact

Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ... read more

Business of innovation: CNR to talk transformative tech at Sea-Air-Space

What kind of impact are industry leaders having on warfighter innovation? How can the Department of Defense take new, transformative, cutting-edge concepts developed by industry and place them into ... read more

Lebanon’s Civil Defense Team Fails to Find Body of Diver

Abdul-Jalil told the paper that that he and Hajjar were diving below 40 meters when they suffered from nitrogen narcosis, an indirect effect of pressure which starts affecting divers below 40 ... read more