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Whether you're in search of the best dive operation in Cozumel, looking for a live-aboard in Indonesia or Fiji, or news about a dive computer recall, you're in the market for scuba diving information that's independent, authoritative, and easy to find. Published continuously since 1975, we're the source that serious divers have always trusted. Read more

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Editor's Pick of the month

Tropical Ice

Written by Undercurrent's publisher Ben Davison (writing as KL Smith) and set in Belize, Tropical Ice is a story of shark-finning and reef-raping, murder and politics, on an industrial scale, with plenty of diving.

It all takes place at Cap'n Jack's Rum Caye Dive Resort, where Jack's trying to save his failing resort with shark-feeding dives, until a body turns up in the damnedest place.

Tropical Ice is available online from Amazon in paperback or Kindle, and in bookstores.

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Since 1975, Undercurrent, a nonprofit organization, has published a monthly, subscription-only, ad-free newsletter, with travel reviews -- the good, the bad, and the ugly -- by undercover correspondents, the latest on safety, accidents, and divers deaths (what divers must do to dive safely), equipment issues and problems, and features on tipping protocol ... ensuring ocean rescue ... dive insurance shortcomings ... liability lawsuits ... using that safety sausage properly ... problems with online booking agents ... which resorts and liveaboards fail our standards . . . .everything a serious traveling diver needs to know.

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Cove Eco Resort/Cove Eco Report in Indonesia/Raja Ampat *"Not A Great Experience"* filed Jun 9, 2025 by Love Sharks* (Experience: 501-1000 dives, 4 reports, Reviewer )*
From Portland, Oregon, I flew for 2 hours and connected in San Francisco. Here I stayed overnight, then 11 hours on Japan Airlines to H... ... Read more
Sea Rovers Dive Centre/Plataran Menjangan Report in Indonesia/Menjangan *"Great area for nature lovers"* filed Jun 9, 2025 by Mary McCombie* (Experience: Over 1000 dives, 29 reports, Sr. Contributor )*
We wanted an all-Bali dive vacation this trip, so chose to explore Menjangan/Pemuteran along with Tulamben. Perhaps it was time of year... ... Read more
Magic Oceans Report in Philippines/Anda *"A Week in Anda"* filed Jun 8, 2025 by Mr Jeffrey Zankel* (Experience: Over 1000 dives, 8 reports, Sr. Reviewer )*
We 5 divers split up our trip between Dauin near Dumaguete and Anda on Bohol Island. It took a day to get from Dauin to Anda via vans a... ... Read more
Sea Explorers/Pura Vida Report in Philippines/Dauin *"Diving Dauin/Apo"* filed Jun 8, 2025 by Jeffrey Zankel/Ellen Sakoloff* (Experience: Over 1000 dives, 8 reports, Sr. Reviewer )*
Our group of 5 divers went to the Philippines for two weeks, split between Pura Vida in Dauin and Magic Oceans in Anda(Bohol). Pura Vid... ... Read more
Two Fish Divers Report in Indonesia *"Good diving at a good price"* filed Jun 7, 2025 by Ken Paff* (Experience: 501-1000 dives, 3 reports, Reviewer )*
I went with a group of six friends, and dived 7 days: 2 days muck diving at Lembeh, and 5 days on the walls at Bunakin. (Two Fish oper... ... Read more

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Read these free articles from past issues:

• The Avelo System Reviewed in Depth, 06/25
• The Call for Regulation of Liveaboards, 05/25
• Tariffs and Scuba Gear , 05/25
• That Diver's Medical Form, 03/25
• Fifteen Years Ago Cocos Island Swarmed with Turtles. Why Have Many Disappeared?, 02/25
• Held Hostage Until Signing a Liability Waiver, 02/25
• LiPo bags halt battery fires, 10/24
• It takes hope to save yourself, 10/24
• Does Renting Gear Save Travel Hassle?, 08/24
• Having Fun with Artificial Intelligence, 07/24
• Diving from the BVI Aggressor in the British Virgin Islands, 06/24
• How should we tip the dive crew?, 04/24
• Should I Insure Old Scuba Gear?, 03/24
• What's happening with liveaboards?, 02/24
• Scorkl - Why divers see its potential danger, 01/24
• A stroke while diving is serious, 01/24
• Emergency evacuation from the Revillagigedo islands, 01/24
• Liveaboards: Fertile Ground for COVID, 11/23
• Divers of a Certain Age, 11/23
• With MY. Bilikiki in the South Pacific's Solomon Islands, 10/23
• Cayman, Maui, Raja Ampat, Texas - reader's report, 09/23
• Guadalupe island closure cost big money, 08/23

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