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Scuba Diving's Most Unbiased Information Source
Whether you're in search of the best dive operation in Cozumel, looking for a live-aboard in Palau, or news about a recall of a dive computer, you're in the market for scuba diving information that's honest and easy to find.
Welcome to the online edition of Undercurrent, the diver's source for unbiased, ad-free reviews of dive destinations, dive operations, and dive equipment since 1975.
Note: Undercurrent is a registered nonprofit, 501 (c) (3) organization. Donations are fully tax-deductible for purposes of US income tax. Our travel writers never announce their purpose, are unknown to the destination, and receive no complimentary services or compensation from the dive operators or resorts.
Undercurrent is the longest running dive publication in North America.
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Here is one of our can't-miss reads - -
A Better Way to Find Lost Divers 
These are freely available to you, the diving public.
In the June issue, Subscribers and Members can download the entire issue and read articles about:
Wanananavu Beach Resort, Fiji: the latest on Bligh Waters diving and the resort's dive shop changes . . . our review of an ascent rate alarm gizmo . . .a diver's tale of Somali piracy and the Seychelles army . . . reader reports of diving in St. Lucia, Vietnam and with Hawaii's sharks, seals and rays . . . an Aussie liveaboard gives divers a wild ride . . . why new divers should reduce their weights . . . four solid, inexpensive regulators we recommend . . . why a Bahamas bull shark bit a spearfishing diver . . . how two divers survived after 24 hours adrift in the Gulf of Mexico . . . why you should keep your mask and regulator out of the rinse tanks . . . and why you need trip insurance now more than ever
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• From our March issue, see Bret Gilliam's controversial article "A Personal Perspective on Dive Innovation".
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Special Reports
• Scuba Divers, Internet Purchases, and the Industry
• How Many Divers Are There?
Undercurrent Articles
Publicly Available
• Anatomy of a Free Flow, 4/09
• Get A Magnifying Glass, 4/09
• Get Shark Fin Soup off U.S. Restaurant Menus, 3/09
• The Inadvertently Inflating Power Inflator, 2/09
• Cabo, Cozumel, Dominica, Naples, 2/09
• What You’ll Pay on Your Next Dive Trip, 1/09
• So How Are the Oceans Really Doing?, 10/08
• CoCo View Resort, Roatan, Honduras, 8/08
• The Last Word on Dive Tipping, 7/08
• Raja Ampat Liveaboard Update, 6/08
• Reef’s End Lodge, Tobacco Caye, Belize, 5/08
• Proper Liveaboard Hygiene, 5/08
• The Death of A Shark Diver, 4/08
• New Innovations in Dive Gear, 3/08
• Can Coral Reefs Survive Global Warming? 1/07
• No-See-Ums, More Than Just an Irritation, 1/00, ... , 9/07
Browse Public Dive Articles
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Editor's Picks
Diving Southeast Asia
This just-published, 302-page, soft-bound guide by Beth and Shaun Tierney, is a must for anyone contemplating diving in Indonesia, Malaysia or Thailand. Where is Sipadan? Raja Ampat? Komodo? Richeliu Rock? Maps make it easy to pinpoint dive destinations and travel routes. Destination and 250 dive site descriptions (with tables on depth, visibility and currents) help you determine whether you’ll see big fish in the blue or pygmy seahorses in the muck. There’s a lot of supplemental information such as travel tips, health tips, and resorts and liveaboard descriptions.
Click here to order through Undercurrent and you’ll get Amazon’s best price -- and our profits will go to save coral reefs.
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The all new 2009 edition of The Travelin' Diver's Chapbook is out now and available on the website to subscribers and Online Members. Sign up now for a 9 month introductory Undercurrent subscription, or a one year Online Membership and either way we'll send you a free issue of the 488-page Chapbook, with more than 1,000 resort and liveaboard reviews and details about water temperature, best times to dive, whether there really is unlimited diving, if the food is palatable....everything you need to know. FOR FREE.
You’ll get nine issues of Undercurrent with your subscription, beginning with the January issue, as well as online access to back issues and current travel reports from scores of destinations.
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