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A dive supervisor takes you under a frozen reservoir: cutting the hole, the tether signals, and why February is the month for it.

A dive supervisor recalls a lift station job where a missing permit and a broken ladder stopped the dive before it began.

A Fort Lauderdale dive pro on why a clean-looking hull can hide barnacles, electrolysis, and lost knots.

A salvage master's account of diving in the first week after a hurricane: water conditions, surveying, gear, and the season that won't quit.

A Gulf of Mexico diving superintendent recalls his first saturation dive, the grind of the chamber, and why he chose air diving instead.

A salvage master finds a wedding ring on the third sonar pass and returns it to a local family.

A salvage master recounts the anatomy of a dock-side sinking and the two-day operation that put a 62-foot sportfish back in the water.

A dive supervisor's firsthand story of a missing hose, a three-hour search, and a delta P entrapment at a hydro plant.

A state DOT engineer explains what underwater bridge inspections find: scoured foundations, corroded rebar, and zebra mussels hiding the damage.

One supervisor's plain list of five things found after dewatering a January lock chamber, and what each one taught the crew.

A routine interior check found a crack in a storage tank. Here's how Marisol handled the shutdown and the repair.

A power plant manager tells the story of finding a long-lost car in the circulating water intake and what it did to the plant.