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.

What new equipment appeared at the annual Diving Equipment Manufacturers Association (DEMA) show? , 01/2019

Jacques Cousteau's divers made do with mask, fins, a regulator and a tank or two, but today's divers add stuff to make it a better experience. We went to Las Vegas last November to find out what's coming and present a commentary on the most interesting stuff likely to be seen in a dive store near you this coming year. You can read it for free here. ...   Read more >>

Why are divers now getting bitten by sharks in the Red Sea?, 01/2019

In recent months there has been a spate of bites of unsuspecting divers, some very serious, by ocean-roving oceanic white-tip sharks. They used to be the most common large predator on Planet Earth. Not so now. It's been a thrill for divers to encounter them and the off-shore dive sites Egypt's Red Sea are a popular for that reason. There were few reports of scuba divers at risk of attack, but not so now. Why is it happening? You can read our thoughts for free here. ...   Read more >>

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Read these free articles from past issues:

• Sunset House in Grand Cayman, 11/2018
• Read This Before Plugging In, 11/2018
• Olympus Dive Center for Sharks and Shipwrecks Galore, 10/2018
• Even Air Breathing Divers Should Analyse Their Gas, 10/2018
• Deadman Diving: Not A Dive Agency Product, 09/2018
• Problems with Sherwood Avid BCs Still Continue, 09/2018
• Extreme Courage -- and a Good Nose,
cave divers' amazing rescue of the Wild Boar soccer team, 08/18
• Plastic Packaging And The Diving Industry, 07/18
• Undercurrent Gets An Award, 07/18
• Tulsa Diver Bent In Cozumel Gets An Insurance Shock, 07/18
• MV Belize Aggressor III, Belize, 06/18
• Unvarnished Truth Can Hurt But It's Still the Truth, 06/18
• Oxygen Analyzers - What's New?, 06/18
• “Me Too” in the Diving Industry, 05/18
• Sending Your Sausage Safely, 04/18
• Diving in Lembeh Can Be Infectious!, 04/18
• Did Your Travel Insurance Cough Up When You Needed It?, 03/18
• The Chinchorro Banks, Alor, Belize and Roatan, 02/18
• Get Your Weights Off First, 02/18
• Catastrophe at Cocos Island, 01/18
• How Often Should You Have Your Regulator Serviced?, 01/18
• Plastic is Suffocating the Ocean, 01/18
• Hey divers, don't eat the reef fish, 11/17
• Will your liveaboard's insurance cover your loss?, 11/17
• Okeanos Aggressor II, Cocos Island, Costa Rica, 10/17
• Diving in Freezing Water? U.S. Navy Tests Flunk Some Regulators, 10/17

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