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  When Considering Deep Stops, Profiles Rule, 04/08 Irrational Fear of Flashing Dive Computers , 7/07
Younger, Newer and Female Divers Show More DCI Symptoms, 7/07 The Tactical Use of Dive Computers, 5/07 You've Come a Long Way, Nitrox, 3/07
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Won't Cover Bent Diver's Chamber Costs, 3/07 Multiple Flights after Diving, 3/07 Decompression Illness Presenting as Breast Pain,Decompression Illness Presenting as Breast Pain 10/06
New Evidence that Dehydration Increase the Risk for DCS, 6/06 With DCI, Age Matters, With DCI, Age Matters3/06  Reverse Diving Profiles, 5/06
Who Gets Bent More?, 5/05 Deep Stops: Better than 3 minutes at 15 feet?, 3/05 Hidden Heart Defect Raises DCS Risk Five Fold, 9/04
Free Diving Between Scuba Dives Could Bend You, 9/04 Free Diving Between Scuba Dives Could Bend a Diver ,9/04 More About Exercise Before Diving: and a pill for DCS?, 5/04
  Freak Wave Capsizes Shark Boat, Kills Three Divers, 5/08 Why Divers Die: Part III, tragically dumb mistakes that turned into fatal errors, 5/08
The Death of A Shark Diver, will it affect shark dive trips in the Bahamas?, 4/08 Poor Buoyancy Is a Bigger Factor in Dive Accidents, 3/08 Rebreather Deaths Are on the Rise, 3/08
Why Divers Die: Part II
problems on the surface, 3/08
Why Divers Die: Part I; panic attacks and entanglement are two killers, 2/08 Fire Sinks Amigos Del Mar’s Dive Boat, 2/08
When Divers Become Hazards, 10/07 Diver’s Death Blamed on Few Skills and Faulty Valve, 10/07 Dive Boat Fiascos, 10/07
Got a Medical Emergency? Call DAN Again and Again, 8/07 NOAA Nixes Split Fins, 6/07 Deaths in the Caymans, 6/07
"Tank Blackout" Can Be Fatal, 5/07 Dive Accidents Above Water, 4/07 Why Divers Die, Part III, 2/07
Ladies, Avoid This Dive Instructor, 1/07 Why Divers Die: Part II, 1/07 Belize Divemaster Gets Away With Diver's Death, 1/07
Nai'a Crew Rescues All Hands After Grounding, 10/06 Why Divers Die: Part I, 10/06 Irwin's Death Stirs Backlash, 10/06
Diver Rescued after 56 Hours at Sea, 10/06 Staying Alive until the Boat Finds You,Staying Alive until the Boat Finds You 7/06 Surviving Three Days in 68F water, 6/06
The Yellow Fin in the Sand, 4/06 Four Cases of Divers Drifting at Sea: Mistakes Galore, 4/06 Post Hurricane Cozumel, 4/06
Three Divers with Belize Operator Drift Two Days; One Dies, 1/06 Why Divers Die, Part III, 1/06 Australian Couple Drift Six Hours, 10/05
Why Divers Die, Part II, 10/05 Divers Left Behind in Florida, 9/05 Why Divers Die, Part I, 9/05
Two Thai Live-Aboards Sink, 7/05 No Safe Harbor: A new book on the Wave Dancer tragedy, 6/05 More Divers Left at Sea, 5/05
Thumbs Down Thumbs Down— Advanced Diving, Placencia, Belize, 4/05 The Wave Dancer Tragedy Belize releases its final report, 4/05 Divers in the Tsunami: divers caught in the wave, 2/05
 Why Divers Die, Part IV: equipment failure ... or operator error?,10/04 Why Divers Die, Part III: the true cause of death – panic, not drowning, 9/04 Sixteen Divers Surface to Find Boat Missing , 10/04
Divers Vanish in Fiji , 10/04 Divers Drift 45 Miles and 14 Hours in the Red Sea, 9/04 Why Divers Die: Part I
...obesity, conditioning, denial, 8/04
Dive Boat Strandings: Part II
8/04
Every Diver's Nightmare
left behind to drift at sea, 6/04

Squid Fishermen's Bombs Rattle Night Divers
(see sidebar, p.11) 5/04
More on Dropping Weights
(see sidebar, p.13) 4/04
Three Perish in Red Sea Live-Aboard Explosion
(see sidebar, p.4), 4/04
Crocodile Hunter in La Paz Rescue (see sidebar, p.10) 3/04
Relax and Drift
(see sidebar, p.10) 2/04
Why Divers Die, Part II
1/04
Drifting the Night Away
(see sidebar, p.14) 1/04
Shark Feeding Stops Shark Feeding Stops
$25 Million Suit for Lost Leg, 1/2004
The Belt Goes First
(see sidebar, p. 14) 10/03
Two Live-Aboard Fatalities Raise Question
were safety procedures sufficient?, 9/03
Underwater Suicide
(see sidebar, p. 7) 8/03
Is Your Liveaboard Trip Aboard a Safe Vessel? Part I
what the experts discovered about the Wave Dancer, 5/03
Drifting the Day Away
(see sidebar, p. 4) 4/03
Spoilsport Tragedy
(see sidebar, p. 9) 3/03
Serious Shark Attack Raises Questions
(see sidebar, p. 9), 1/03
Why Divers Die, Part III
are you rusty?
2/03
  When Considering Deep Stops, Profiles Rule, 04/08 Shooting Saltwater Up Your Nose, 3/08
Donald Sutherland Claims Diving Is a No-No Past Age 50, 3/08 Women Divers May Be Better Than Men, 1/08 Secondary Drowning: A Few Drops Can Be Fatal , 9/07
Survival Psychology of Divers, 8/07 Part II: How Many Divers Are There?, 6/07 Would You Please Repeat That?, 5/07
DAN Debunks Antioxidants Before Diving, 5/07 Heavy Breather? Add 15 Minutes to Your Underwater Time, 4/07 Is Diving Off Limits for Pregnant Women?, 3/07
Why Divers Die: Part II, 1/07 It's the Salsa, Stupid, 1/07 Women Divers and Their Menstrual Cycles,Women Divers and Their Menstrual Cycles 8/06
Have a Little Nitrox, M'Dear, 7/06 Managing Sea Sickness, 7/05 Sciatica and the Giant Stride, 9/05
Why Divers Die, Part I Why Divers Die, Part I— panic and entrapment, 9/05 The 'Pee Factor' in Diving,When the urge hits, should you?The 'Pee Factor' in Diving,When the urge hits, should you?08/05 Medicine on the Web, 8/05
Managing Mal de Mer, 7/05 Is Diving Safer Than Skiing?, 1/05 Exercise Before, During, and After Diving: Exercise Before, During, and After Diving:there are DCS risks, indeed, 3/04
Why Divers Die, Part III Why Divers Die, Part III... over weighting is a common contributor
2/04
Doo Doo Redux
(see sidebar, p.4) 2/04
Why Divers Die, Part IWhy Divers Die, Part I
learning to say no, 10/03
Deep DooDoo
10/03
CoCo View Cuts the Cheese and (hopefully) Blows Away Turista (see sidebar, p. 4) 10/03 Panic in Recreational Scuba DiversPanic in Recreational Scuba Divers
yes, the sexes are Venus and Mars, 8/03
Slow BurnSlow Burn
(see sidebar, p. 7) 4/03
More About Those Medical Exams
(see sidebar, p. 12)
2/03
Study Finds Diving May Damage Your Lungs
(see sidebar, p. 9)
2/03
  Infection Warning, 2/07 Drugs Divers Take, 5/06
Managing Mal de Mer; the Right Drugs, 7/05 Malaria and Divers: Even in Roatan there's a risk, 10/04 Heart Defect Raises DCS Risk: twenty-five percent of divers have it, 9/04
CoCo View Resort, Roatan, Honduras: CoCo View Resort, Roatan, Honduras:
...10 years later, the same diver paradise, 07/2004
Coco View Redux Coco View Redux, 5/03 How SARS Can Ruin Your Dive Trip ... Even if You Don't Have It
(see sidebar, p 13) 5/03
  It’s Sea Lice Season in the Caribbean Again, 04/08 The Skinny on No-See-Ums,9/07
Two Inexpensive Weapons against Jellyfish Stings, 3/07 Latest Results on Insect Repellents,Latest Results on Insect Repellents 10/06 Beating the Bite; New Spray as Good as DEET, 1/06
New repellents prove as effective as DEET and less offensive, 1/06 Malaria and the Diver; Even in Roatan, 10/05 They Sting, and Raise Angry Welts, it's sea lice season, 5/05
Malaria and Divers: Even in Roatan there's a risk, 11/04 Cream Wards off Jellyfish Stings, Stanford Study Suggests
(see sidebar, p. 5), 8/04
Diver's Shark Tales from Around the Globe, 7/04
Who You Callin' Hostile?
(see sidebar, p. 13), 9/03
Getting Nailed by JelliesGetting Nailed by Jellies
a commercial preventative lotion proves effective, 9/03
No-See-Ums More Than Just an Irritation, No-See-Ums More Than Just an Irritation01/2000
    Why Technical Training is Worth Your Time, 2/08
How to Emergency Breathe From a BCD, 1/08 Out of Air? Try Your BCD, what the agencies won’t tell you about secondary air sources, 1/08 Breathing Exercises For Longer Dive Time, 10/07
New Advice for Divers Caught in Rip Currents, 10/07 Industrial Oxygen in My Nitrox?, 9/07 Safety Concerns on Liveaboard Boats, 8/07
For or Against the "No-Pee" Rule? a steady stream of reader comments, 6/07 Scuba Shack's No Peeing Rule, 4/07 When Bad Things Happen to Good Divers, 2/07
CDs: The Ideal Surface-Detection Aid?, 2/07 Serious New Regulations in the Galapagos Islands New Regulations in the Galapagos Islands, 1/07 Deeper into Diving, 9/06
British Expert Calls Short Courses "Madness", 9/06 When Divers Get Benched, Part III, 5/06 When Divers Get Benched: Part II, 4/06
No More Diving Today: When Divers Get Benched: Part I , 3/06 Tech Diving, Rebreathers and Wreck Diving; Why You May Not Be Ready , 3/06 Diving After Eating; A Navy death raising issues, 10/05
The ever-valuable reef hook: where to get, and how not to get stuck..., 9/05 Bob Halstead's quirky formula to ensure divers don't drift away..., 9/05 Divers Still Being Left at Sea, 5/05
Diving Out of the Mainstream, 1/05 Coast Guard to the Rescue?
, 1/05
The Dangers and Thrills of Deep Wreck Diving
(see sidebar, p.15), 7/04
Free Diving as an Extreme Sport
(see sidebar, p.14), 2/04
Gray Around the Gills
are you ever too old to dive?, 9/03
Losing Your Buddy in Inner Space
Bob Halstead says what you've been taught is STUPID, 9/01
  Proper Liveaboard Hygiene, 5/08 Diver Car-Rental Scam in Cozumel, 1/08
Infection Warning, 2/07 When a Passport Isn't Enough, 9/06 New Luggage Limits Slam Traveling Divers, 8/06
How to Go Diving with Nondiving Kids, 8/06 Consider the Season, 6/06 Selecting the Right Airplane Seats, 6/06
Ship Ahead Rather Than Carry Your Gear?, 2/06 Photo Gear, Rebreathers Stolen from Divers Photo Gear, Rebreathers Stolen from Divers— And there it is, for sale on eBay 3/06 Theft and Dive bag Security Screeners, 2/06
Airport security screeners and divers: what to watch for..., 9/05 U.S. State Department Warnings
(see sidebar, p. 5) 6/04
And Don't Forget Your Visa
(see sidebar, p. 3) 6/04
Tanks, Bottles, and Spare Airs May Be ConfiscatedTanks, Bottles, and Spare Airs May Be Confiscated
(see sidebar, p. 4) 5/04
Is Your Live-Aboard Safe? -- Part IIIs Your Live-Aboard Safe? -- Part II
can you trust it 500 miles at sea?, 6-03
Travel Safety in the Age of Terrorism
Bali? The Red Sea? The Philippines?
2/03
A Rusty BCD Connection Can Rocket You to The Surface, 3/08 Shields and Repellants to Keep the Sharks Away, 1/08 When Needlefish Attack, 1/08
When Lightning Strikes During a Dive, 9/07 Many Sunscreens are Short on Protection, 9/07 Ciguatera Facts, 8/06
Unlucky Fiji Divers Poisoned by Dinner, 8/06 When Sharks Hunt Divers, 2/06 Shark Repellent Under Development., 8/05
The giant stride causing sciatica: what a pain..., 9/05 Sting Ray City Eel Rips Boys Arm, 6/05 Sharks of the World, 7/05
The Dangers and Thrills of Deep Wreck Diving, 7/04 Fly-By-Night Training, 6/04 How "Advanced" are Advanced Divers?, 5/04
Electronic Shark Repellent Vindicated
(see sidebar p. 2), 5/03
Is Your Gear Safe with Nitrox?
at what oxygen content is ignition possible, 1/03
Is That Welding Oxygen in Your Nitrox Tank?
(see sidebar p 14), 1/03

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