It did not mention the bends. I saw two of the divers, who wanted to be checked out for causes of the bends they had suffered. They told me that two other divers on the expedition were also bent. This is something that readers should know. It is unethical for magazines to give a glamorous impression of a high-risk activity without letting readers know the risks.
Diving is a risk sport.
There is always the possibility of suffering decompression illness. For amateur divers we think in terms of one bend in every 10,000 or so dives. This does not mean that all dives have an equal chance of a bend occurring one in 10,000 times. Risk increases with depth of the dive, but the relationship is not a simple linear one. The risk of diving to 50m is not five times the risk of diving to 10m, but very much greater.