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Undercurrent 2018 Table of Contents
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- Bahamas Aggressor, The Bahamas, sharks and swimming pigs
- It’s a Dog’s Life!
- Cozumel and the Cenotes, Yucatan, Mexico, commuting to the caverns
- Will the Sport of Scuba Diving Survive?
- You’ll Need More Than That to Get Me to Visit
- Misfortune Follows the Siren Fleet, is there something inherently wrong?
- Regulator Servicing: Do It Every Two Years
- Wooden Hulls, Tumble Dryers and Single Engines
- A Taste of New Products at DEMA 2017
- Don’t Skimp on the Oxygen
- A Kauai Frogfish Follow-Up, letters from Hawaii and what you thought
- What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of our Underwater Cousins
- Plastic is Suffocating the Ocean, and the dive industry must share the blame
- Catastrophe at Cocos Island, Costa Rica, a diver is killed in a tiger shark attack
- Another Tiger Shark Incident
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- KM Blue Manta, the Banda Sea, Forgotten Islands, Alor, a thousand miles of pristine Indonesian diving
- WAOW Liveaboard a Total Loss
- Diving and Hepatitis C: Know the Facts
- The Chinchorro Banks, Alor, Belize, Roatan, and how cut-rate trips leave early birds steaming
- Divers Adrift Eight Hours in the Philippines
- Get Bent and Who is at Fault?
- Lionfish-Killing Contests Can Work
- Diviac Goes to PADI
- Rebreathers: What Every Scuba Diver Needs to Know, and know about the diver next to you using one
- The Most Dangerous Thing You’ll Meet Underwater? Your Boat’s Propeller
- Cozumel Dive Boat Sinks
- Get Your Weights Off First!
- Panic Kills Too Many Divers, be aware that loss of control is a killer
- Fiji and Belize Protect their Reefs
- The Diving Industry Must Get Rid of Disposable Plastic
- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Warranties, where did my Aeris warranty go?
- Roatan Park Rangers Face Death Threats, during the fight to preserve the reefs
- Legal Protection for Fish?
- Shark Shapes Are Significant
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Avalon II, Jardines de la Reina, Cuba, is it the Caribbean’s best?
- Easy Travel to Cuba
- If Attacked, You’re Not Just a Shark Attack Statistic!
- Avalon II, Too
- Magic Oceans; Bohol Island, Philippines, another great Philippines bargain
- Underwater Bullies
- 75 Hours Afloat At Sea and Survived!, an unplanned feat of endurance and lessons learned
- Less of an Achievement than a Moon Walk
- Do You Need Advanced Open Water Certification?
- Did Your Travel Insurance Cough Up When Required?, or should you forgo paying those stiff premiums?
- What’s the Latin Name For It?
- Divers Disappointed in Sipadan
- Get Your Weights Off First!
- Liability Waivers and the Dive Professional, top lawyers give an insight into the legalities
- Woman Divers – Have You Had a “Me Too” Moment? We Need Your Thoughts
- Liveaboard Trip Canceled 24 Hours before Departure, and it’s a struggle to get fair compensation
- No More Tropical Mosquito Bites
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Two Fish Divers, Lembeh and Bunaken, Indonesia, a two-resort budget combo with tip-top diving
- Diving in Lembeh Can Be Infectious!
- Respect That Lobster
- St. Vincent, Maldives, Roatan, Belize, destinations for everyone
- Your Travel Reports Are Important
- A New Feature for Your Travel Reports
- Diving Gear to Stand Well Clear Of!
- Suunto/Aqualung Computer Lawsuit Continues
- When Diving Disappoints, and big animals are a no-show
- A Creative Way to Create Marine Parks and the U.S. Must Step Up
- Sending Your Sausage Safely, letting them know where you are before you surface
- A Safety Sausage Can Save Your Life
- Solutions for Rescue When Lost at Sea, they are not as simple as you might presume
- False Liability Release Answers May Have Cost a Widow Dearly
- Mares Tests Full-Face Snorkeling Masks in the Light of Snorkeling Deaths
- Does Your Light Cause Critters Harm?, are high-powered video lights a concern?
- So Who Owns PADI?
- More Views on AOW Certifications, get the cert, save the grief!
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- MV Taka, Solomon Islands, and a word about the Bilikiki
- Dwindling Dive Stores
- Deadman Diving – Whatever Next?
- Your Battery Charger: a Real Risk of Liveaboard Fire
- Nicaragua, Lembeh, Thailand, Florida, Socorro, Unusual dives, cheap flights, a new resort
- Will East Timor Become a Popular Diving Destination?
- An Incredible Voyage
- Plastic? Some Dive Operators Step Up
- Undercurrent Subscribers Set a Guinness Record: The Oldest Couple Diving
- “MeToo” in the Dive Industry, it’s still more like being the “Second Sex” for many women divers
- Ghost Net Massacres, Cayman Marine Life
- Still Trouble with Full-Face Snorkeling Masks? A Retired Mares Dealer Makes His Reservations Clear
- Are Underwater Photography Courses Good Value? We Want To Hear From You
- A Real Advanced Open Water Class
- No Safety Sausage? Toss Water!
- Things Are Not Always As They Seem, especially to an ill-informed passing boater
- The End of American Abalone Diving?, a desperate situation demands desperate measures
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- MV Belize Aggressor III, Belize, good boat, great crew, easy diving
- You Won’t Put Down Tropical Ice, A Sensational Scuba Thriller Set In Belize
- Flies in the Face of Good Business
- When Sport Divers Meet Spearfishers
- Atlantis Dumaguete Resort, Negros Island, Philippines, an abundance of creatures in clean muck
- Oman Aggressor Continues to Cancel Trips
- A DAN Survey on Diver Fitness: Is Your Liver as Healthy as your Heart and Lungs?
- The Lesson Of Walden Pond Or Why Not To Pee Underwater
- When Diving in the Maldives Disappoints, the right information guides expectations
- Phone For Your Deco Too?
- Another Non-Native Species in Florida
- Scuba Diving Can Be Hazardous to Your Health, the unseen enemy but just as deadly
- Will You Be the One to Submit Our 10,000th Reader’s Report?
- No Side-Mount Tanks on Aggressors?
- Diving Computer Algorithms Are Important, and you should be on the same page as your buddy
- Unvarnished Truth Can Hurt But It’s Still the Truth
- More Tiger Trouble in Cocos, getting to grips with a troublesome shark
- Oxygen Analyzers – What’s New?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Alami Alor, Pulau Alor, Indonesia, luxury resort, luxurious reefs, reasonable prices
- Buoyancy Cell Failure Causes Diver Fatality
- A Caribbean Influx of Deadly Weed
- Undercurrent Receives $1000 Environmental Grant
- Okeanos Aggressor II, Caño Island, Costa Rica, well, it’s sure not Cocos Island
- Oceanic/Hollis Regulator Recall
- The Soul of a Fish Monger, the smartest critter spared from the grill
- Do You Want Diving Regulated?, some countries do have statutes
- Tulsa Diver Bent in Cozumel Gets Insurance Shock
- Plastic Packaging and the Diving Industry, do the big manufacturers care enough?
- Mission 2020
- Discover Scuba Diving Course Leads to Fatality, a single instructor is not enough
- Our 10,000th Reader’s Report
- Reminiscing about Being Adrift at Sea, two divers lucky to have made it
- Blubber For SEALs and Penguin Feathers
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- MV Tempest, Red Sea, Egypt, great diving on a liveaboard we’d never recommend
- Our Picks for Top Red Sea Liveaboards
- Dive Friends, Courtyard Marriott, Bonaire, finally, a way to use hotel points on your overseas dive trip
- Shore Diving Is Not for Everyone
- An Interesting Way to Off-Gas in Bonaire
- Not All Magnifying Glasses Will Spot Critters
- You? Run Out of Air? Impossible . . . Right?, what about your buddy? How to be prepared for the last gasp
- Just How Much Is a Bar, Anyway?
- A Single Drop of Sunscreen Can Kill Coral, yet Reef Safe’s manufacturer continues to market the killer
- Quiet, Please! Marine Noise is Making Fish Deaf
- Extreme Courage -- and a Good Nose, cave divers’ amazing rescue of the Wild Boar soccer team
- Who Are the Rudest Divers?, the slow ones? or those who have to wait for them?
- How Did the Maker of Sharkwater Die?
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Deefer Diving, Carriacou, Grenada, a frozen-in-time Caribbean isle – including the diving
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- The Divers Most At Risk for Heart Attacks
- Bonaire, Cozumel, Cuba, Fiji, Palau . . ., spear tossers, baggage restrictions and thieving crews
- Help Indonesia Recover from Earthquake Disaster
- Is Your Mouthpiece Causing You Pain?
- Dive Industry, Stop with the Plastic, and how you, our fellow divers, can help
- Fitness, Diving and Dehydration, how not to mix these three things in the wrong combination
- Florida’s Red Tide Crisis: Which Dive Spots Are Affected
- Deadman Diving: Not A Dive Agency Product, but are the dive agencies turning a blind eye to it?
- Hawaii Fish Collectors: In a Fine Mesh
- How Travelin’ Divers Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprints
- In Praise of Liveaboards, why it’s more than just the diving that makes them better
- Problems with Sherwood Avid BCs Still Continue
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Olympus Dive Center, North Carolina, sharks and shipwrecks galore, but that tank policy . . .
- Some Divers Really Need to Drop a Few Pounds
- Siladen Resort and Spa, Indonesia, a tranquil place where “chill” dives are the main thrill
- What’s the Craziest Thing You’ve Seen While Diving?
- Pirates of Papua New Guinea
- Part I: The Ups and Downs of Ocean Currents, strategies for surviving them
- When It Comes to Diving, Don’t Trust the BBC
- Was There a Cover-Up in This Diver’s Death?, many questions about search-and-rescue efforts for Rob Stewart
- Why Even Air-Breathing Divers Should Analyze Their Tanks
- Who Are You Calling Rude?, our readers sound off on the most offensive divers
- Divers and Dolphins: How Much Should They Mix?
- Shorter Dive Times at Cocos Island?
- Suunto Finally Settles Its Lawsuit, the results may benefit owners of its dive computers
- Scubapro Steps Up
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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- Sunset House, Grand Cayman, happy 60th birthday, but you’re really showing your age
- Fake News: The Diving Version
- Zeagle Recalls Five Types of BCs
- Caymans, Cuba, French Polynesia . . ., plus hurricanes, shark dives and two remote sites worth the trip
- Sinister Circumstances Surround this Diver’s Death
- A New Spin on Dolphin-Human Interactions
- Is This Diver Carrying too Much Weight?
- Don’t Bust Your Ears
- Invasive Lionfish and Crowns-of-Thorns May Have Met Their Match
- Part II: The Ups and Downs of Ocean Currents, how to enjoy diving -- and avoid getting lost -- in them
- A Tough Lesson to Learn from a Dive Tragedy
- How Did This Diver’s Wife Die?, the computer and scuba gear make the husband look guilty as sin
- Read This Before Plugging In Your Dive Camera
- The “White Shark Cafe”: A Hot New Winter Hangout
- The Craziest Things You’ve Seen on Dives, poop, sex toys and, of course, crazy divers
- Underwater Statues Are Unwelcome in the Maldives
- Flotsam & Jetsam
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