with their blood reaching boiling point in a matter of seconds. One man's spine was torn from his body and found almost 10 metres away. The official report reads: "Diver D3 was shot out through ...

Here’s how it works. In an extremely rare medical case, a scuba diver who descended deep into an underwater cave developed a deadly blood syndrome in which fluid leaked out of his blood vessels.

Pace and colleagues described their findings in a report titled, “Acute effects on the human peripheral blood transcriptome of decompression sickness secondary to scuba diving.” Decompression ...

High-risk patent foramen ovale was independently linked to a higher risk for decompression illness in scuba divers ... is dissolved in blood or tissues during a diver’s descent under high ...

Scuba divers are five times more likely to ... known as the 'bends' - is when small gas bubbles form in the blood as a diver rises to the surface, blocking circulation to the brain.