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Undercurrent 2013 Table of Contents
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- Sipadan Water Village, Borneo, Malaysia, orangutans in the jungle, orangutan crabs underwater
- Digital Fish ID
- The Magnificent Name Game
- Bandito Charters, Tacoma, Washington, how warm-water divers from Florida did diving Puget Sound
- How About Recycling Your Old Dive Gear?
- Bonaire, Cozumel, St. Vincent…, legendary guide retires, dive shop disputes, and more
- Death in Belize from Exploding Tanks
- A 24-Hour Sea Hunt Marathon
- What Dive Shops Think About Your Gear, especially if you didn’t buy it from them
- “Naive” Fish Are Easy Targets
- Post-Op Diving, how you can suit up after major medical work
- The Dangerous Risk of Boats Without Dive Ladders
- Watch That Giant Stride
- Mastering Rebreathers, 2nd Edition
- What’s the “One DEMA” Product This Year?, John Bantin reports on what’s worth buying and ignoring
- Maiden Dive Boat Trips: Another Liveaboard Owner’s Point of View
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Dolphin Dive Center, Loreto, Baja CA, Mexico, dolphins and a mix of marine life in the Sea of Cortez
- Two Easy Ways to Recycle Your Dive Gear
- Cedar Beach Ocean Lodge, B.C., Canada, gourmet heaven for cold-water divers
- The DEMA Dive Show, a slightly irreverent review
- Yes, Another High-Pressure Hose Recall
- Yes, the Dive Gear Caused His Death, but no, his sister can’t sue the manufacturer
- Why DEPP Has Been Giving the Silent Treatment to Divers
- Filling Cylinders In Water, perhaps a cause of a tank explosion
- The Debate About Fish and Pain is Settled -- Or Is It?
- Middle-Age Women and DCS, are they at higher risk of getting the bends?
- Diving in “Shark-Infested” Waters, with oxygen tanks, to boot
- Lionfish Control: Targeted Areas, Lots of Manpower
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Kasai Village, Cebu, Philippines, even a typhoon can’t affect the good diving
- Belize, Hawaii, Cozumel, Palau . . ., Caribbean winter warnings and more trouble with the Siren fleet
- The Reason for Wrinkled Fingers
- A Lost–at-Sea Diver Tells His Tale, a 14-hour swim from Gordo Banks back to the mainland
- Comparing Dive Computer Watches, Suunto, the originator, versus everyone else
- Chinese Price Gouging and DCS Too
- Dead Divers’ Bad Mistakes: Part I, like wearing a too-small BC -- or diving without one
- Hey, There’s an App for that Dive, digital dive info worth downloading onto your iGadget
- Don’t Call Them “Shark Attacks” Anymore
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Blue Lagoon Resort, Chuuk, Micronesia, the non-liveaboard experience
- Another Chuuk Option: the Truk Odyssey
- Flying to Micronesia? Options to Avoid United
- Belize Diving Services, Caye Caulker, Belize, Old Caribbean living, the reality of current Caribbean diving
- Bad Mistakes Dead Divers Make: Part II, like pre-dive drug use or faking your medical exam
- Why Not Make the Costa Concordia a Diver’s Paradise?
- DEPP: Off the Recommended List, nobody wrote in to rave about their great service
- Five Websites That Makes Dive Travel Easier
- “Another” Recall for Aqua Lung’s SureLock Weight Pockets
- Camera Housing Leak Tests, a better way to ensure your pricey camera is waterproof
- A Bad Dive Weekend Coast to Coast
- Humans Have Changed Stingrays’ Ways
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Turneffe Island Resort, Belize, concierge diving on a remote private island
- Maui Boat Captain Fined for Diver’s Death
- The Resort’s Off-Putting Documents
- Key Largo, Maui, New Zealand . . ., maiden voyage kinks in Thailand, a rude photo pro in Bonaire
- Lionfish Update: The Good and Bad News
- Is Your Dive Computer Correct?, for depth and temperature, it may not be so accurate
- Cause of Death: A Deteriorated Mouthpiece?
- Diving Deep into Danger
- What to Tip on Your Next Dive Trip: Part I, and the myriad of factors that determine the amount
- How Many Calories Do You Burn Diving?
- Why Divers Should Know CPR, especially when you’re doing dive trips in the Third World
- Where Exactly Is the South Pacific?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Hawk’s Nest Lodge, Cat Island, The Bahamas, hanging in the blue with oceanic whitetips
- Fiji Airways: A Major Link in the Shark Fin Trade
- New Caledonia, South Pacific, an utter lack of Americans, an abundance of pristine dive sites
- What to Tip on Your Next Dive Trip: Part II, tips about tipping by the pros
- “Now I Can Pig Out on Trips with Less Guilt”
- Why Some Indonesia Liveaboards Don’t Take Credit Cards
- Barracudas’ Nasty Bites, not only hands -- feet and faces, too
- Will Honduras End Scuba Diving for Lobster?
- Problems with Weight Pockets, the complaints keep on coming
- Are You Getting Free Gear to Review?
- Whale Sharks Are Getting Too Much Love, good intentions may be having a bad influence
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- WAOW, Indonesia, fiery volcanoes, dangerous dragons and colorful diving
- How Diving Inspires This Science-Fiction Writer
- Bahamas, Hawaii, the Red Sea. . ., one Micronesia resort worth visiting, another that’s not
- Lawsuit over Diver Death on San Diego’s Yukon
- DEMA’s “Reaching Out” Award, not worth winning, says Bret Gilliam
- The Disappearing Dive Shop
- Navy Divers Got it Wrong
- Shark Baiting and Feeding, what’s so wrong with it, John Bantin asks
- A Win for Shark Fins: Fiji Airways Reverses Its Stance
- Undercurrent Is Awarded a Grant for Environmental Coverage
- What Happens to Those Aging Dive Guides?, the Lahaina Divers 35th reunion
- Lost Your PADI Card? How to Avoid the $37 Fee
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- SeaQuest Dive Center, Philippines, a four-resort, 10-day dive “Seafari” for $150 a day
- Decongestants and DCS: No Link, So Far
- Knives or Scissors?
- Other Philippines Dive Sites, more destinations for cool critters and great values
- The Right Way to Store Your Wetsuit
- DEPP: Guilty of Insurance Fraud, how one of our subscribers helped shut the company down
- Feds Seize Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Boat, but why was someone else given the criminal charges?
- Spearfishing and Fish Collecting Limited in Hawaii -- Will It Help?
- Galapagos Aggressor I Runs Aground, equipment or human error? the Fleet’s not saying
- Subscribers Speak up about Shark Feeding, the results? Seems to be split down the middle
- New Research: Shark Feeding May Not Affect Behavior
- There Are Dives . . ., . . . and then there are “dives”
- Underwater Photography for Compact Camera Users
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Yucatek Divers, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, whale sharks, cenotes and reefs on demand
- Where Do Whale Sharks Spend the Winter?
- An Alternative Whale Shark Dive
- Suunto Recalls Dive Computer Hoses
- Eritrea, Kiribati, Sipadan . . ., why to consider Wananavu, when not to consider the Odyssey
- We Need Your Reader Reports
- An Analysis of Rebreather Deaths, why rebreather diving is 10 times more dangerous
- Your High-SPF Sunscreen May Not Be So Great After All
- Mantas Are More Valuable Alive than Dead
- The Disappearing Recompression Chamber, there are more than ever, but fewer are for divers
- Which Divers Get DCS? DAN Tries to Determine
- Are You Diving Less These Days?, why divers are making few trips or quitting altogether
- Bikini Protest
- Want to Be One of Our Bloggers?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Turks & Caicos Explorer II, Plenty of fish - - and mysterious gnomes
- Gnomes Below?
- Seeking More Exotic Diving?, how about Russia, the Sardine Run, or an underwater cemetery?
- When Shark Shields and Great Whites Collide
- Sunscreens that Protect Divers as well as Reefs
- GoPro vs. a Standard Camera, which one fits your photo/video skills and needs?
- Divers Who Do Good, they love the ocean so much, they started nonprofits
- Thanks to Our Subscribers, We’re Giving Away $3,000
- You Don’t Have to Start a Nonprofit to Do Good
- How to Avoid a Flight from Hell, it often boils down to how you book your plane tickets
- A Diver with Heart Issues: Could His Death Not Be Accidental?
- I’m Offended by This!, what we dive boat captains must encounter
- Can Divers’ Potentially Fatal Heart Changes Really be Found?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Cane Bay Dive Shop, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, easy diving, easy vacation
- R/V Coral Reef II, Bahamas, on the hunt for 1, 337 fish to stock the New England Aquarium
- Experienced Divers Aren’t Excited by Artificial Reefs
- Maldives, Hawaii, Indonesia . . ., some dive operators who need to change their rules
- How Long Will Your Dive Computer Last?, and will that warranty really help you?
- Warranties: What to Look at, What to Ask
- Buy a Cockroach for Christmas
- Travel Tips for Long-Haul Flights, how to spend less on -- and survive -- grueling dive trips overseas
- Good News about Lionfish Culling in the Caribbean
- The Fight to Stop Seahorse Photography, but it’s not the strobe, it’s the manhandling
- Why Divers Should Be Excited about The Wave
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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