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Water bends light, swallows colour and carries sound too fast to place. Most of what feels strange underwater is just physics doing what it always does, and knowing why makes you a calmer diver. Start with the altitude article if you dive from Johannesburg — it changes your tables.
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"Oxygen in My Tank": The Myth, and Why Divers Never Actually Breathe Pure Oxygen

"Oxygen tank" is one of diving's most persistent myths. Here's what's actually in your cylinder, and why pure oxygen becomes toxic at just 4-6 metres.

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