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Undercurrent 2015 Table of Contents
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- Caribbean Explorer II, Lesser Antilles, a full dance card in Nevis, Saba, St. Kitts and Statia
- The High-Tech Search for a Dead Diver in a Quarry
- Why Don’t Pre-Dive Checklists and North Carolina Mix?
- Where to Go Diving -- and When, seasons change, and so does the weather at dive spots
- Should Diver Certification Last Forever?, not if you haven’t dived since J.R. Ewing was shot
- Filefish’s Camouflage: Smelling like Coral
- Judges Thumb Their Noses at Disability-Seeking Divers
- Aging Divers Have Their Limits, here’s how our readers deal with them
- Diving into the Heart of Trouble
- More Shark-Stopping Devices on the Market, do they work? And why do I think about goat implants?
- A Diver’s Estate Sues for His Wrongful Death
- DEMA: The Latest, But Not The Greatest, mostly upgrades and revisions, with GoPro as the buzzword
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Kona Diving Company, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, cool endemic critters and -- with luck -- a manta show
- Aqua Lung Recalls All BCs with SureLock II Weight Pockets
- What’s a Heated Vest, and Should You Buy One?
- Komodo Resort Diving Club, Indonesia, exciting diving at budget prices
- We Need Your Reader Reports
- The “Ship of Gold” Treasure Hunter Captured In Florida
- Life and Death on the Reef, the tale of an Indonesia dive gone wrong in so many ways
- Lionfish Aren’t the Only Invaders in Florida Waters
- Stop Panic Before It Starts Underwater, simple exercises every diver should do
- Dead Diver’s Wife Sues a Shadow Diver Star, grief and greed made this case go on too long
- Want to Put Your Name on a Reef? Got $100,000?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Magic Island and Atlantis-Dumaguete, Philippines, creature comforts, incredible sea life, affordable prices
- What’s With All the Photo Bullies?
- Belize, British Virgin Islands, Hawaii, a KKK leader’s resort, a dive shop’s faulty rental gear
- To Avoid Hypothermia, Divers Should Stay “in the Hood”
- What’s to Become of Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso?
- No Two Dive Computers Are Alike, a study shows they’re not all as conservative as they claim
- Two Good Reads for Reducing Your Dive Risks
- Don’t Count on Getting That Dive Trip Deposit Back
- How Do You Handle a Bully on the Boat?, the debate continues
- Regulator-Ripping Diver Sentenced in Underwater Attacks
- A Tragedy of Dive Errors, Major bends in Rangiroa leads to a $7.8 million settlement
- Mea Culpa
- Flotsam & Jetsam
- Petit Mustique, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, unbelievable drift and critter diving
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- Pedasi, Isla Coiba and Bocas del Toro, Panama, a whirlwind dive trip, with great surface intervals
- Typhoon Wrecks Truk Liveaboards
- Leave the Nautilus Alone
- Fiji, Iceland, Maldives, Raja Ampat, trouble in Cozumel, a bad critter-handling policy in Kauai
- Readers Weigh in About Turning Rigs into Reefs
- Heart Health in Older Divers, are stress tests and defibrillators really that helpful?
- The Dive Hood, Your Head and Heat Loss
- That Dream Trip Can Be Reality, finding reasonably priced places with less-stressful travel
- How Any Diver Can Negotiate Group Dive Discounts
- Petit Mustique Diving Lodge, ultimately, the joke was on me
- Where Are the Replacement O-Rings?
- The Latest Hope for Fighting Caribbean Lionfish?
- Molesting Dive Instructor Sees It as “Just Playing” with Female Divers
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Aqua Safari and Living Underwater, Cozumel, Two different dive operators, two different views
- Your Fellow Divers Need Your Travel Reports
- Dehydration and Diving: Facts and Myths
- Could This Diver’s Death Have Been Prevented?
- Little Cayman, Cocos, Palau, PNG . . ., great liveaboard picks, and a sailfish slaughter in Guam
- “They Confirmed He was Dead, Then Left . . . Without the Body”
- Brutal Murder of Stuart Cove’s Dock Manager, Bahamas’ crime rate is far higher than NYC or Chicago
- The Rarest Dive Watch Ever?
- Starving Underwater Photographers: Part I, pity the pro, or pat the amateur on the back?
- Skip the Caribbean: Dive Your Nearest Golf Course
- Bubbles Up
- A Bad Night on the Wind Dancer, divers and crew endangered as reef rips open hull
- Don’t Sign This Lionfish Petition
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Nautilus Explorer, Socorro Islands, Mexico, big animals, little value
- Putting a Camera on a Shark: Not a “Brilliant Idea”
- Avoid New Liveaboards for at Least a Month
- Belize, Bonaire, Florida, Philippines . . ., and a Cozumel dive shop with a great refund policy
- Lionfish Petition Update: We Still Don’t Like It
- The Biggest Dive Lawsuit Payout to Date, father and son get $12 million after being run over by dive boat
- This Dive Shop Paid $103,000 for a Death by Boat Propeller
- Starving Underwater Photographers: Part II, how pros handle contracts and fees -- how you should, too
- Spineless: A Spectacular Look at Marine Invertebrates
- What to Know About Photo Contests and Contracts
- How to Breathe Underwater, or, how to master the “dive deeper, breathe slower” approach
- A Better Heart-Check Tool than a Stress Test?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Arenui, Alor Archipelago, Indonesia, a unique critter haven, but a notch below luxury
- A Major Mask Recall Due to Shattering Glass
- Undercurrent Can Sure Use Your Help
- Fantasy Island, Roatan, Honduras, saying goodbye to an old friend
- Latest Shark Research: Shields Are Effective, Bubble Curtains Aren’t
- Aqua Lung Facing a Class-Action Lawsuit, for faulty dive computers somebody else made
- What on Earth Were They Thinking?
- Get the Most from Your GoPro Underwater, the accessories that guarantee divers will get better shots
- Fugitive Dive Operators Found, Then Charged with Manslaughter
- Lessons Learned from Dead Divers
- What’s Going on with the Aggressor Fleet?, $500 vouchers may not be enough to quiet complaints
- Three Men and No Boat
- Send Us Your Reader Reports
- Wearables Come to the Dive Industry
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Kosrae and Yap, Micronesia, two magical stopovers in the mid-Pacific
- Rest in Peace, Gladys Howard
- Shark Explorers, Cape Town, South Africa, only if you must see great whites in any way possible
- Mozambique, Mexico, Philippines . . ., more on the Thorfinn, and another Bonaire warning
- Divers, Your Very Presence Affects Reef Fish Behavior
- No Diver Left Behind?, still no foolproof system to get divers get back on board
- Just Think, He Might Have Been in Your Dive Class
- Shark Bytes
- Barracuda Slaughter at McCauley Memorial, what are the rules for spearfishing with underwater scooters?
- Letters about our Latest Articles
- Is Your Camera Hurting Marine Life?, the effect of strobe and flash lighting on animals
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- XTC Dive Center, Xcalak, Mexico, face-to-face with crocodiles in the Yucatan
- New Rules for Lithium-Ion Batteries on Airplanes
- Security Concerns for Diving in Malaysia
- Cuan Law, British Virgin Islands, first-class trimaran and service, but the diving . . .
- Hammerhead on the California Coast: “It Kept Coming At Me”
- No Diver Left Behind: Part II, what works, what doesn’t, to get divers back aboard
- The Lionfish Hunter
- Anything New at the DEMA Show?, photography and technical diving dominate
- Getting Batteries for Old But Reliable Dive Computers
- Voices in the Ocean
- Do Sport Divers Need a Spare Air?, not if they’re paying attention
- Carl Roessler, Steve Jobs and the “Maddened Attack”
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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