And finally, we have Lemons himself, who remained an active diver for 11 years after his near-death experience before ...

On November 5, 1983, the Byford Dolphin incident shocked the offshore drilling industry, when routine maintenance work ended with workers dying instantly and one escaping with lifechanging injuries.

The remains belonged to Robert Martin, the diver who vanished in 2006 after a trip about 20 miles offshore from Ponce Inlet.

David Callahan is one of a few hundred people who are deep-sea oil rig divers, and he can’t imagine doing anything else Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

A deep-sea training and engineering dive off the coast of San Diego provided ... that resulted in the death of 19 crew members. The detailed, high-definition images of the final resting place ...