One by one, firefighters donned their dry suits and diving equipment and slipped below the ice of Big Sandy Lake on Jan. 11 to practice rescuing a victim during ice rescue training for the Fort McCoy ...

Tobias Hochstetler hopes he never has to rescue a fellow scuba diver, but if he does, he’s ready. This week, the 12-year-old Tiburon resident just completed an intensive PADI rescue diving course on ...

For most people, the idea of scuba diving in miles of pitch-black tunnels with no wiggle room is the stuff of literal nightmares. But as veteran British cave diver Rick Stanton told The Post, “I do it ...

When John Volanthen was 14 years old, he found himself standing before a cave in the South of England. The passageway ahead was full of water and he could travel no farther. But something about the ...

The Carter County Emergency and Rescue team wants to be prepared to keep you safe while out on the water with boating and swimming season ramping up in our region. This is why they practiced realistic ...

WARRI, Nigeria — He had survived three days in an upside down tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and then he saw lights in the water. Air bubbles rose around the cook as he squatted in an air ...

A rescue diver was airlifted to a hospital after trying to save a man who died while swimming in a waterfall at a popular hiking area, North Carolina officials say. Divers with the Linville Fire ...

Last winter, a team of divers braved Tasmania's icy eastern waters on a mission to help save the region's spectacular giant ...