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Undercurrent 2017 Table of Contents
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- Nautilus Belle Amie, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, eye-to-eye with a great white
- Another Treasure Find Claim
- Rigid Rules for Flying with Lithium Batteries
- Stay Away from that Propeller!
- Little Corn Island, Nicaragua, the Caribbean of yesteryear
- A 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 alternative
- Hyperbaric 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 up
- Book 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 nitrox
- How You Use Your Tank Valve May Be Wrong: The Quarter Turn That Can Kill
- NEW! Want a Printed Copy at 50% Off?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- MV Kate, Tiger Beach, The Bahamas, don’t forget, you are still prey
- Keep Away from the Sharp End!
- Shark Bytes
- Scuba Diving In His Living Room?
- Papua Explorers, Raja Ampat, Indonesia, well worth the time and expense
- A 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 is
- Vivid-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 safety
- A Day in the Chamber and I Wasn’t Bent
- Those Dreaded Liability Waivers, a reminder that the risk is all yours
- Checking the Internet While Diving
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- 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 mantas
- Award 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 happened
- Coral Cuts Can Be Costly
- The Pros and Cons of Shark-Feeding Dives, our readers respond
- Does 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 differently
- A Pocket Guide for Diving in Southeast Asia
- Woes Aboard the Sri Lanka Aggressor, and it’s out of business
- A Blue-Fingered Diver in Warm Waters
- PADI, from $200K to $700,000K in 32 Years
- Problems with Braided Regulator Hoses, an alert from DAN
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Aldora Divers, Cozumel, Mexico, concierge diving . . . and the other Cozumel
- Silent 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 glitches
- Pelagian 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 this
- Can Robots Take on the Lionfish Menace? A Kickstarter Campaign to Find Out
- Coral Reefs Are Dying Everywhere, and divers should be up in arms
- Skin 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 way
- Fake 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 cabin
- Orca Slaughter at St. Vincent
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Paradise Taveuni, Taveuni Island, Fiji, coral and cultural paradise
- The 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 hammerheads
- Son 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 it
- New 360 degree Underwater Camera, a Small Fortune
- How Safe to Fly After Diving? At Last, Some Empirical Evidence
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Top Dive, French Polynesia: Part I, exciting diving for the experienced
- Touch 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 regulators
- Advanced 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 industry
- Harassing 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 issues
- Sea Turtles Under Threat
- Finding Your Way Aided by a Compass, an item of equipment that’s often overlooked
- A Bad Weekend At a Training Lake
- What Do You Have in Your Dive Bag?, better to have it and not need it
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Anse Chastanet, St. Lucia, the Caribbean, it’s not just for diving
- Neal 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 list
- Poisonous 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 pittance
- Tigers Get Around
- A Hidden Killer in Our Midst, breathlessness is the clue
- Worse Things Happen at Sea!
- Is It One Up, All Up?, it could be a matter of life and death
- Undercurrent 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 service
- Tropical Ice, in paperback – “Perhaps the best scuba thriller ever”
- Underwater Wineries
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Little Cayman Beach Resort, Cayman Islands, whether you have had one dive or one thousand
- Divemaster or Dive Guide?
- Grand Cayman Scuba Tank Floats 800 Miles North!
- MV Saman Explorer, Oman, Arabian Sea, hot, damned hot; dives with highs and lows
- The Great Risks of Golf Ball Diving
- Oman
- Ambergris, the Red Sea, Raja Ampat, bad briefings, free flowing regulators, overflowing toilets
- Your 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 them
- Analysis of an Accident
- Was This That Hidden Killer?
- A Fast Trip to the Top Is Disastrous, faulty gear or lack of familiarity can kill
- Atlantic 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 unwary
- Keep Goliath Groupers for Divers
- Sherwood is Shirking its Responsibility for Diver Safety
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Okeanos Aggressor II, Cocos Island, Costa Rica, hammerhead heaven, but not for the faint of heart
- Older, 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 GBR
- Pulmonary Edema and Those Little Blue Pills
- The Great Barrier Reef; Dive it Now
- Are Hurricanes Damaging Your Dive Plans?, consecutive storms wreck Caribbean infrastructure
- A 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 true
- Ear 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 60
- Bahamas 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 Hawaii
- Bali Disaster Pending?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Crystal Blue Resort, Anilao, Philippines, making much of the muck
- What 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 behavior
- Others 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 not
- Deadly 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 EU
- Who 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 it
- Regulating Scuba Diving
- Over-sized Pinnae?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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