SCUBA diving. Divers decompressing on their way back to the surface. SCUBA divers must make regular decompression stops on the way back to the surface

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SCUBA diving. Divers decompressing on their way back to the surface. SCUBA divers must make regular decompression stops on the way back to the surface to prevent decompression sickness, or 'the bends'. Photographed in the Mediterranean Sea, Alicante, Spain.

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