Duke Dive Medicine

Duke's own Rachel Lance will be presenting some of her research about the Civil War submarine HL Hunley, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institute, on a small screen near you this Wednesday!

While this specific talk won't be about Duke's hyperbaric chambers, Lance debunked the popular "suffocation" theory to explain the submarine's sinking by using insight gained from working at Duke Diving, and both the chambers and their personnel feature in her book about the submarine.

Secrets of a Doomed Civil War Submarine Find out how Dr. Rachel Lance unraveled one of the Civil War's great mysteries—what sunk the HL Hunley—and learn the stories of its victims.

We're excited to have hosted the crew of the SpaceX at our chambers for their altitude hypoxia training!

Inspiration4 on Twitter “Altitude chamber training: ✅ Thanks to for hosting our crew and the team at the Duke Hyperbaric Medicine Clinic in Durham, North Carolina today!”

Enterprising Duke students Dominic Tanzillo and Nick Saba have harnessed the resources on campus to create a free, online course about medicine in space!

The Duke chambers also scored a minor cameo in the section about the body's responses to pressure.

Final frontier: Duke University offers course on medicine in space DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) – You won’t be able to take all kinds of medical specialists into space. As man replaces machine, the journey to Mars, which can take up to eight months, and time on…

Snorkeling isn't technically diving, but we occasionally make exceptions for interesting science!

A number of unexplained deaths while using full-face snorkel masks ("FFSMs") has led to some Hawaiian snorkel tour operators banning them. We've instrumented a randomly selected smattering of models and sizes to see if there's a clear cause for the accidents, or if they may have been unrelated to the gear.