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The Waters of Planet Earth are filled with a wild array of creatures, both great and small, that pose a real threat to the life of divers. The sport is worth the risk so long as one understands the dangers, the precautions to take and the safety procedures necessary to minimize risks. No diver enters the water expecting to die.

Dead Diver.com wants to remind all divers that, regardless of age or experience, the only thing standing between the life of a diver and certain death is SAFETY. By far the worst thing to happen to a diver while exploring the world she loves is to fail to tell the tale.

The recently discovered shipwrecked remains of the whaling ship the "Two Brothers" has the underwater archeology world buzzing with excitement.

Captained by George Pollard, Jr. of Nantucket the Two Brothers struck a reef in shallow water near the Hawaii Islands in 1823. This was Pollard's second ship. The "Essex" was the first whaling vessel he captained which sank after being rammed by a sperm whale 1821.

Herman Melville, inspired by the story, wrote the American classic Moby Dick. The novel's obsessed Captain Ahab bears little resemblence to the character of George Pollard.

According to the Nantucket Historical Association, Melville met Pollard many years later and wrote of him: "To the islanders he was a nobody--to me, the most impressive man, tho' wholly unassuming, even humble--that I ever encountered." [source: National Geographic]

The NOAA expedition headed by Kelly Gleason, Ph.D found the wreck on a remote reef off French Frigate Shoals in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. The discovery of cauldrons used to melt down whale blubber into oil tipped off the researchers that the wreckage was a whaling vessel.

The archeologists were able to confirm the identity of the vessel after discovering a forged tip for a whale harpoon. The heavily encrusted harpoon tip bore the initials of the ship, the "Two Brothers."

The sheer beauty and awesome creepiness of cave diving lures hundreds divers each year to explore the submerged caverns of our planet. In many Cenotes divers find ancient human remains and artifacts. Used by the Maya centuries earlier Cenotes have special religious meaning.

The otherworldly experience of cave diving compares very little to the experience of mere open water diving. For this reason divers seek out specialized training centers that teach the necessary

precautions and protocols needed to safely execute such dangerous dives.

The video you see here is produced by Playa Scuba, located in the Mexican Carribean. Despite the breaks in the footage to promote the Dive Shop and their website, the video here shows some the interesting environments one can experience while cave diving.

The submerged caverns used by Mayans as an entrance into the underworld, hold a vast treasure of history in the form of human remains, pottery, and jewelry. These sites are not for treasure hunters as their contents are protected by International Antiquities Laws.

Removing their contents is highly illegal and those who do will be subject to fines and imprisonment.