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Nautilus Belle Amie, Guadalupe Island, Mexico , eye-to-eye with a great whiteAnother Treasure Find Claim Rigid Rules for Flying with Lithium Batteries Stay Away from that Propeller! Little Corn Island, Nicaragua , the Caribbean of yesteryearA Hard Lesson Learned Getting Your Teeth into Scuba Our Bilikiki Confusion Would You Opt For In-Water Recompression? , when remote dive sites mean there’s no alternativeHyperbaric Help Might Not Be Close At Hand in Florida Book Review: Secrets of the Seas Sri Lanka Aggressor Cancels Early Trips Judge Rules in Deceased Diver’s Family’s Favor , when the liability waiver doesn’t hold upBook Review: Shark Doc, Shark Lab A Legal Opinion on Liability Waivers , does the Hambrook Case Make a Difference?Vanishing Warships An Appeal by a Shark Lover A Social Media Lionfish Hoax Six Deaths in Five Days Call for Tougher Aussie Standards Those Little Blue Pills Offer Risk to Male Divers The Terror of the Irukandji , is a tiny invisible jellyfish the most lethal?Get Off the Air, Will You? , it’s time to dive with nitroxHow You Use Your Tank Valve May Be Wrong: The Quarter Turn That Can Kill NEW! Want a Printed Copy at 50% Off? Flotsam & Jetsam
MV Kate, Tiger Beach, The Bahamas , don’t forget, you are still preyKeep Away from the Sharp End! Shark Bytes Scuba Diving In His Living Room? Papua Explorers, Raja Ampat, Indonesia , well worth the time and expenseA New Way to Get Killed! Kill ’em but Don’t Feed ’em? , a campaign to ban shark feeding!Three More Popular Wrecks Lost Forever Toilet Paper, Dirty Money, Tiny Cockroaches , Undercurrent subscribers tell it like it isVivid-Pix JPEG Picture-Fix A Long Swim to Safety Now Kelp Forests Take a Beating Stop Critter Manipulation Photos Tweaking the Inwater Recompression Protocol , medical experts share concerns about safetyA Day in the Chamber and I Wasn’t Bent Those Dreaded Liability Waivers , a reminder that the risk is all yoursChecking the Internet While Diving Flotsam & Jetsam
MV Thailand Aggressor, Similan Islands , where have all the sharks gone? Soup!Urban Diving after a Rain Storm Fancy Bikini? Have You the Proper Travel Documents? Belize, Vieques, Indonesia, Molokai , Christmas crowds, lousy food, white tips and mantasAward Winning Scuba Travel Guides Laurel Silver-Valker’s Sons Sue Treasure Trove in Lake Travis Well-Known Rebreather Diver in the News Again Dolphins Getting High? A Cozumel Tragedy , sometimes only a buddy knows what happenedCoral Cuts Can Be Costly The Pros and Cons of Shark-Feeding Dives , our readers respondDoes Human Interaction Affect Shark Behavior? Shark Dives Operating in The Bahamas Download the Responsible Shark and Ray Tourism Guide Great White Sharks are Back in Florida and You Can Track Them Faulty Gear or Bad Judgment? , tragedies that might have been handled differentlyA Pocket Guide for Diving in Southeast Asia Woes Aboard the Sri Lanka Aggressor , and it’s out of businessA Blue-Fingered Diver in Warm Waters PADI, from $200K to $700,000K in 32 Years Problems with Braided Regulator Hoses , an alert from DANFlotsam & Jetsam
Aldora Divers, Cozumel, Mexico , concierge diving . . . and the other CozumelSilent Rebreather Diving Doesn’t Make You Invisible An Inter-Agency Blacklist Needed? Are You Ready to Drop Your Weights? More Snake Oil? MV Pelagian, Wakatobi, Indonesia , near perfection, but with safety glitchesPelagian and Fantasea II – A Bit of Diving History Has Your Wetsuit Shrunk Since You Bought It? Tropical Ice, an Eco-thriller , if you like Undercurrent, you’ll love thisCan Robots Take on the Lionfish Menace? A Kickstarter Campaign to Find Out Coral Reefs Are Dying Everywhere , and divers should be up in armsSkin Bends? A New Study Suggests Serious Ramifications! Good Luck and Bad Luck Bye Bye Palau? Too Many Divers in this Island Paradise? The Cause of All These Diving Deaths? , heart attacks lead the wayFake News or an Error in Social Media? What Has the EU Done for American Divers? , when it comes to dive gear, plenty!Are You a Wreck Diver or a Liveaboard Diver? , either way, it’s not a bedroom, it’s a cabinOrca Slaughter at St. Vincent Flotsam & Jetsam
Paradise Taveuni, Taveuni Island, Fiji , coral and cultural paradiseThe Endless Acquisitions of Scuba Businesses Sharks Continue to be the Movie Villains Retire in Margaritaville? Hugyfot Case Makes GoPro Serious Belize, Utila, Palau, Komodo, Bonaire , Caribbean whalesharks, missing hammerheadsSon of Australian Underwater Legend Sues Don’t be a Diving Heart Attack Victim Shooting RAW on your iPhone Tropical Ice Surely Not Another Scuba Kickstarter? Fancy Buying a Dive Resort Operation in the Sun? , it’s not for the faint-hearted!That Kosrae Dive Resort Lottery Winner Why Don’t Some Divers Drop Weights in an Emergency? More on those Disappearing Warships , how does an entire shipwreck disappear?Great White v Orcas? Orcas Win Diving in Sri Lanka is Not All Bad Fire Aboard a Red Sea Liveaboard , and a crew ill-equipped to deal with itNew 360 degree Underwater Camera, a Small Fortune How Safe to Fly After Diving? At Last, Some Empirical Evidence Flotsam & Jetsam
Top Dive, French Polynesia: Part I , exciting diving for the experiencedTouch Me Not! Leave the Dolphins Alone My Word, It’s Ugly Down There! Goodbye American Pioneer Diver Out-of-Practice, but I Want to Dive French Polynesia Dominica, Fiji, Belize, Costa Rica, Florida , big animals, no head counts, free flowing regulatorsAdvanced Danish POV Camera Finally Available Trouble Seeing Your Gauges? Two Cameras to Start your Underwater Photographer Career Those Internet-Based Dive Travel Websites , what they mean for you and the industryHarassing Animals and Coral to Attract Business Use the 24-Hour Rule to Your Advantage Don’t Wash a Wound with Sea Water The Only Time You Should Hold Your Breath The Florida Shark Diving Saga Continues , a bite and an attack raise more issuesSea Turtles Under Threat Finding Your Way Aided by a Compass , an item of equipment that’s often overlookedA Bad Weekend At a Training Lake What Do You Have in Your Dive Bag? , better to have it and not need itFlotsam & Jetsam
Anse Chastanet, St. Lucia, the Caribbean , it’s not just for divingNeal Watson and Bimini Big Game Club Get Sued Book Review – Muck Diving by Nigel Marsh Bora Bora and Tikehau, French Polynesia , ... not for your scuba bucket listPoisonous Air — It’s Very Serious When It Happens Shark Movies: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Villa Markisa, Tulamben, and Bali, Indonesia , spend a fortune or a pittanceTigers Get Around A Hidden Killer in Our Midst , breathlessness is the clueWorse Things Happen at Sea! Is It One Up, All Up? , it could be a matter of life and deathUndercurrent Aids Subscriber with Travel Problems Suunto Recalls ALL Computer Transmitters and PODs Online Dive Trip Booking Portals: Part II , they fall far short on personal serviceTropical Ice, in paperback – “Perhaps the best scuba thriller ever” Underwater Wineries Flotsam & Jetsam
Little Cayman Beach Resort, Cayman Islands , whether you have had one dive or one thousandDivemaster or Dive Guide? Grand Cayman Scuba Tank Floats 800 Miles North! MV Saman Explorer, Oman, Arabian Sea , hot, damned hot; dives with highs and lowsThe Great Risks of Golf Ball Diving Oman Ambergris, the Red Sea, Raja Ampat , bad briefings, free flowing regulators, overflowing toiletsYour Reports Are Important Hands off those Underwater Mediterranean Treasures DEMA and the Paris Climate Accord: Support at Last Tropical Ice, a Scuba Thriller Set in Belize Two Divers Missing Off North Carolina , and the plan that saved themAnalysis of an Accident Was This That Hidden Killer? A Fast Trip to the Top Is Disastrous , faulty gear or lack of familiarity can killAtlantic Diving Supply Scams the Military Scubapro First Stage Explodes: Eleven-Year-Old Recall Notice Missed “The Most Dangerous Dive Site in the World” Claims Free Diver Enraptured or Anxious? – You’re Narked , nitrogen narcosis lies in wait for the unwaryKeep Goliath Groupers for Divers Sherwood is Shirking its Responsibility for Diver Safety Flotsam & Jetsam
Okeanos Aggressor II, Cocos Island, Costa Rica , hammerhead heaven, but not for the faint of heartOlder, Deeper, Longer and a Guinness Record Transmit Video While Diving? Charting Marine Litter Levels Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, Australia , diving (what’s left of) the GBRPulmonary Edema and Those Little Blue Pills The Great Barrier Reef; Dive it Now Are Hurricanes Damaging Your Dive Plans? , consecutive storms wreck Caribbean infrastructureA Close Encounter in the Baltic? Diving in Freezing Water? U.S. Navy Tests Flunk Some Regulators Were These Divers Electrocuted? A Tax-Deductible Dive Trip , but too good to be trueEar Infections and the ProEar Solution The Winner Sometimes Loses! Is It Time To Hang Up Our Fins? , If you’re in shape, 80 is the new 60Bahamas Conch Populations in Jeopardy Stuart Cove Guide Fired for Pummeling a Shark Are Some Snorkels and Snorkel Masks Death Traps? , concern for the safety of snorkelers in HawaiiBali Disaster Pending? Flotsam & Jetsam
Crystal Blue Resort, Anilao, Philippines , making much of the muckWhat You Need to Know About The Philippines A New Tip on Avoiding a Cold that Could Ruin Your Dive Trip Hey, Divers, Don’t Eat the Reef Fish Roatan, the Brac, Sulawesi, Fiji … , and a lot of bad diving behaviorOthers Want To Read About Your Trips Are Octopuses Taking Over? California’s Giant Sea Bass — Friend or Food? Is That Warranty Worth the Paper It’s Written On? Double Depth-Record Bids End in Tragedies Will Your Liveaboard’s Insurance Cover Your Loss? , many will, some may notDeadly Air Kills Experienced Diver Aqua Lung Safety Notice Awake to a New Kittiwake Are Today’s Regulators Better than of Old? , Yes, but get yourself one approved by the EUWho Fact Checks “Oxygen-Breathing Diver”? New Critters to Spot Along the West Coast This Time, Frogfish in Kauai , is it right to take fish from the water?Looking for a Holiday Gift? Here Are Three Great Books If You Make a Mistake … , don’t be afraid to talk about itRegulating Scuba Diving Over-sized Pinnae? Flotsam & Jetsam
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