scuba

  • Scuba Diving for Work with Diabetes

    Just a few meters underwater I’m scribbling down barley legible numbers on waterproof paper with a blunt pencil. “Oh wait, was it 11 or 12 oysters?” I think to myself. Ugh, I’ll have to count them again. As I’m re-counting, I see my coworker scuba over to the next structure to take hi-resolution photographs of all of the marine invertebrates…

  • Scuba Diving and Diabetes – A Brief History

     “We certainly concur with the [authors] that “if a hypoglycemic episode occurs underwater or away from shore, the results could be incapacitating and tragic.” However, this same warning applies to almost any activity in which the insulin-dependent diabetic chooses to participate (eg, driving a car). It would be unfair to disallow those responsible adolescents to participate in an activity they…