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Splash in with Splash Inn, Roatan, Honduras, 04/2019

Our undercover reporter investigates budget diving in the Caribbean that's best for beginners. Not many resorts let red-eye flyers plop right into the water, but two hours after arriving a group were off on their first dive. Read it for free here. ...   Read more >>

Catastrophic regulator failures should be rare, 04/2019

It wasn't always so and can still happen with certain models. A regulator fault left a female diver in the Solomon Islands without any air supply whatsoever, whereas every diver should know how to breathe from a free-flowing regulator. Read about it for free here. ...   Read more >>

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Read these free articles from past issues:

• Is Your Old Computer Still Safe?, 03/19
• Why Divers Die: Part II, 02/19
• Traditional Fins are Making a Comeback, 02/19
• What new equipment appeared at the annual Diving Equipment Manufacturers Association (DEMA) show?, 01/19
• Why are divers now getting bitten by sharks in the Red Sea?, 01/19
• Sunset House in Grand Cayman, 11/18
• Read This Before Plugging In, 11/18
• Olympus Dive Center for Sharks and Shipwrecks Galore, 10/18
• Even Air Breathing Divers Should Analyse Their Gas, 10/18
• Deadman Diving: Not A Dive Agency Product, 09/18
• Problems with Sherwood Avid BCs Still Continue, 09/18
• 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

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