Sara Burnett had initially planned to spend only a few weeks practicing at Blue Element Freediving, a training center in the Caribbean island nation of Dominica. The area is popular among free divers, ...

Four CedarBridge Academy students went from swimming with seals at the zoo to exploring the ocean around the island to secure open-water scuba diver certifications. Eva Trott, Cayli Dowling, NiJasz ...

The week of my 17th birthday, I went scuba diving, took an exam and became a certified PADI Open Water Scuba Diver. This was probably one of the best experiences of my life. Breathing and swimming ...

Another world, foreign in time and culture to most Long Islanders, lies as close as the sandy shores at low tide. Scuba divers know it well — crustacean-encrusted canons from a Revolutionary War time ...