Diving Health & Safety Articles

Bends, DCS (Decompression Sickness), Embolism

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all An Encounter with SIPE, 9/23 It's Not Always the Bends, 3/23 Don't Let Bonaire's Easy Diving Fool You, 1/23 Anyone Can Get Bent, So Get Insured, 1/23 We Asked: Do You Download Your Dives?, the digital revolution is big in scuba, 8/22 Decompression Stops: What We Don’t Know, it’s still an imprecise science, 7/22 PFO – That Perfectly Formed Hole, your heart and DCS, 11/21 Covid Patients are Filling Hyperbaric Facilities, 9/21 Understand Your Diving Computer, a Galapagos diving incident, 9/21 Is Your Computer Too Conservative? Not On Your Life!, 9/21     Available to the Public Is it Bad News for Divers Who Suffer COVID-19?, could the effects have contraindications for diving?, 5/20 Don’t Free-Dive During the Surface Interval, 9/19 For Some Divers, Waiting Only 24 Hours before Flying Is Not Enough Time, 8/19 What’s Your Real Risk of a Diving Death?, the ratios versus the reality of “what happens if . . .”, 6/19 Helium Is Now Harder to Get, 6/19 The Real-Time Data Every Dive Computer Should Have, 5/19 Don’t Ignore that Dive Injury, beware if you or the crew say no to medical assistance, 5/19 Old Dive Computers, Odd Treatment: Letters to the Editor, 4/19 The Fatal Effects of “Rapture of the Deep”, and how drugs and reluctant divemasters may play a big part, 3/19 Bad Stories about the Bends, how hospital protocol and a boat crew nearly killed divers, 3/19 Is Menopause a Cause of the Bends?, 3/19 Is Your Old Computer Still Safe?, how to determine whether it’s time for an update, 3/19 Your Next Dive Safety Device Might Be . . . an Underwater Tent?, 3/19 Why Even Air-Breathing Divers Should Analyze Their Tanks, 10/18 Tulsa Diver Bent in Cozumel Gets Insurance Shock, 7/18 Diving Computer Algorithms Are Important, and you should be on the same page as your buddy, 6/18 Diving Gear to Stand Well Clear Of!, 4/18 Suunto/Aqualung Computer Lawsuit Continues, 4/18 Get Bent and Who is at Fault?, 2/18

Diving Accidents & Incidents

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all An Encounter with SIPE, 9/23 Key West Dive Instructor Disappears, 9/23 Four Divers in North Carolina Rescued Far at Sea, 9/23 The Dive - 90 Minutes on Amazon with 22 Minutes of Air, 9/23 The Deadly MY Hurricane Fire, yet another liveaboard tragedy, 8/23 When a Dive Guide is Wrong Make Sure Your Weight Belt is Not Impeded, 8/23 The Deepest Breath, a great documentary but it all ends in death, 8/23 Reflections on the Philippines Capsizing. Carrying Four Divers to the Depths, 7/23 Don't Snorkel with a Saltie, 7/23 Carlton Queen Capsizes in the Red Sea, what happened next, 7/23 A Serious Shark Bite After the Dive Ended, 7/23 Legal Remedies for Overseas Injuries Unlikely, 7/23 Are You Safe on a Liveaboard?, Not all liveaboards show adequate concern for your safety., 5/23 Two Liveaboards Capsize and Sink in April, 5/23 A Unique and Serious Injury at Ramon's in Belize , a tough fight for compensation in another country, 5/23 What’s Going on in Chuuk Lagoon?, 4/23 Punishment Abroad for Training Deaths, but it will never happen here, 4/23 Free Diver Pipin Sues Netflix for Defamation, 4/23 Surviving a Liveaboard Emergency, 3/23 PADI Pays Up After a Training Death, It's settled, but expect no public insight about PADI, 3/23 Insurance Claim Denied, But I'm a New Person, 3/23 Another Cozumel Propeller Accident , 2/23 Lost and Found - How Lucky He Is , 2/23 Cozumel Diver Disappears from Surface , what you need to know about down currents, 2/23 And Don't Forget about RipTides , 2/23 Red Sea Liveaboard Smacks into a Reef at Night , Are liveaboards getting reckless?, 2/23 Malta Dive Accident Ruled Involuntary Homicide, CCR and traditional SCUBA do not mix, 1/23 Conception Deaths Spark New Owner Liability Law, 1/23 Conception I-Phone Video, trapped below deck, divers sought a way out, 1/23 Stay Away from Those Propellers: The Most Dangerous Thing You Meet is a Boat, 11/22 Unsafe at Any Depth?, 11/22 Instructor Killed by Blasted Tank Valve, 11/22 Lack of Progress in Implementing Conception Safety Recommendations, 10/22 The Short Cut Mentality in Divers, a road to disaster, 10/22 Diving Instructor Arrested, 10/22 Mother and Her Sons Get Left at the Surface, 10/22 Unexplained Snorkel Deaths in Hawaii, the same issue for scuba divers, 9/22 How Safe Are You From Fire?, lessons from the Allegro Cozumel Hotel fire, 9/22 Diving Accident Stats are "Inaccurate ... Manipulated ... Misrepresented", 8/22 Never Forget: Let Your BC Find the Surface, 8/22 PADI Responds to Cancun Diver Fatalities, 8/22 The Perils of Coral Cuts in Tropical Climates, 7/22 Nobody Gets Away Scot Free, diving death shuts down dive operator decades later, 7/22 The Yucatan Stonewalls its Diving Deaths, and the streets can be dangerous, 7/22 An Opinion about Liveaboard Safety, who’s driving the boat while you sleep?, 7/22 Scuba Scene – Another Liveaboard Burns, with conflicting perceptions of the aftermath, 6/22 Have Dive Accidents and Fatalities Increased?, 6/22 In One Month, Five Divers Have Died in Florida, 4/22 Diving With Grim Purpose (continued), 4/22 Sydney Shark Kills Swimming PADI Instructor, 4/22 Boy Dies When Trainee Divers Go Missing, 4/22 Cancun Dive Boat Propellers Kill Two American Divers, 3/22 That Snorkel Can Save Your Life, 2/22 Conception Tragedy Leads to New Safety Rules, 2/22 The Rescue – Unmissable, 2/22 IPE and Why It’s Good to Feel the Need to Pee, a cause of fatality that often gets overlooked, 1/22 Diving with a Grim Purpose, 1/22 Anything It Takes to Get My Shot, 11/21 Wearing Fins on Deck Proves Fatal , and the British boat captain is found liable, 10/21 Put Your Fins On Last and Avoid Taking a Tumble , 10/21 Freak Needlefish Accident , 10/21 The Risk of Selling Second-hand Dive Gear, 7/21 The Tragic, Unnecessary Death of an AOW Trainee, is it time to rethink regulating dive instruction?, 7/21 Available to the Public Have You Ever Surfaced and Been Lost?, sensible divers take steps to avoid it, 5/20 Florida Dive Boat Prop Kills Diver, 4/20 Why You Need Medical Evacuation Insurance, 3/20 Two Shark Attacks on Divers, you can be unlucky or very unlucky, 3/20 The Death of an Insured Diver, and why his wife could not collect, 3/20 When Dive Gear Evidence Goes Missing, 2/20 That Weight Belt Can Kill You, 2/20 The Conception had been Exempted from USCG Fire Safety Standards, 2/20 A Template for Liveaboard Safety Precautions, From the Undersea Hunter fleet, 2/20 The Ins and Outs of Trip Insurance, if you’re over 70, DAN think you’re too old for coverage, 2/20 Lawsuit over Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Sting, 2/20 A Chance to Get Shark Bytes at Half Price, 2/20 A Row Erupts Over a Great White Shark’s Death, 1/20 Harrowing Tales from the Red Sea Aggressor I Fire, errors led to the disaster and post-disaster mismanagement, 1/20 U.S. Coast Guard Regulations under Criticism in Wake of the Conception Tragedy, 1/20 Parents Sue PADI over the Death of Their 13-Year-Old Son, 11/19 Failing to Turn Your Tank On All the Way Is “Simply Stupid”, 11/19 The Potential of a Liveaboard Fire, how to protect yourself, 11/19 American Diver Dies in Red Sea Aggressor I Fire, 11/19 Advances in Integrated-Weight Systems, 10/19 The Tragic Tale of the Conception Fire, the cause remains unknown, 10/19 Dive Vessel Inspections: Not All Insured Liveaboards Have Been Thoroughly Checked, 10/19 Don’t Free-Dive During the Surface Interval, 9/19 Recent Deaths Highlight the Risks for Older Divers, 9/19 A Tragic Accident Brings a Reminder for Safe Travel, 8/19 Beware of False Prophets on Your Dive Trips, instructors and other experts are not always right, 8/19 How Good Are You at Knowing if a Diver Is Drowning?, 8/19 Murder, Bombing and Mass Destruction in Sabah, an illegal fishing method becomes a deadly diving hazard, 8/19 When That Dive Training Came In Handy, letters from readers about how they handled diving crises, 8/19 After Drifting for Eight Hours, “I’m Just Glad I’m Alive, 7/19 Can You Handle A Crisis Underwater?, or are you toast if something unexpected happens?, 7/19 Killed by Sharks While Snorkeling with Pigs, 7/19 What’s Your Real Risk of a Diving Death?, the ratios versus the reality of “what happens if . . .”, 6/19 He Was 330 Feet Deep Without Anything to Breathe -- and Survived, 6/19 Yes, Sport Divers Get PTSD, Too, here’s how to determine whether you’re in that bunch, 5/19 Even Royal Family Members Are Dive Fatalities, 5/19 Snorkeler Gets Swallowed by a Whale, 5/19 Your Letters to the Editor, health hazards, airline issues and divemasters’ responsibilities, 5/19 Trinidad Diver Survives a 44-Mile Swim, 5/19 Lessons from My Wife’s Snorkeling Death, and why I suspect her mask as the culprit, 4/19 Maybe This Is the Reason Why His Wife Drowned, 4/19 A Catastrophic Regulator Failure, don’t hold your breath if you have one (I’m serious), 4/19 The Fatal Effects of “Rapture of the Deep”, and how drugs and reluctant divemasters may play a big part, 3/19 Bad Stories about the Bends, how hospital protocol and a boat crew nearly killed divers, 3/19 Why Divers Die: Part II, boat engines, unfamiliar dive gear and hyperhydration, 2/19 Discover Scuba Diving Is Deadly, two more fatalities - one being a 13-year-old boy, 2/19 Our Shocked and Appalled Readers, last month’s stories that made you write letters to us, 2/19 Another Good Story about that Epic Thai Cave Dive Rescue, 1/19 “I Very Quickly Realized It Was a Crocodile”, 1/19 Why Divers Die: Part I, being lazy, getting fat and succumbing to panic are big factors, 1/19 Wreck Diving for Beginners, should a teenager with four dives really be visiting Chuuk?, 1/19 Sinister Circumstances Surround this Diver’s Death, 11/18 A Tough Lesson to Learn from a Dive Tragedy, 11/18 How Did This Diver’s Wife Die?, the computer and scuba gear make the husband look guilty as sin, 11/18 Was There a Cover-Up in This Diver’s Death?, many questions about search-and-rescue efforts for Rob Stewart, 10/18 Problems with Sherwood Avid BCs Still Continue, 9/18 You? Run Out of Air? Impossible . . . Right?, what about your buddy? How to be prepared for the last gasp, 8/18 Extreme Courage -- and a Good Nose, cave divers’ amazing rescue of the Wild Boar soccer team, 8/18 How Did the Maker of Sharkwater Die?, 8/18 Buoyancy Cell Failure Causes Diver Fatality, 7/18 Tulsa Diver Bent in Cozumel Gets Insurance Shock, 7/18 Discover Scuba Diving Course Leads to Fatality, a single instructor is not enough, 7/18 Reminiscing about Being Adrift at Sea, two divers lucky to have made it, 7/18 More Tiger Trouble in Cocos, getting to grips with a troublesome shark, 6/18 Still Trouble with Full-Face Snorkeling Masks? A Retired Mares Dealer Makes His Reservations Clear, 5/18 A Real Advanced Open Water Class, 5/18 No Safety Sausage? Toss Water!, 5/18 Things Are Not Always As They Seem, especially to an ill-informed passing boater, 5/18 Solutions for Rescue When Lost at Sea, they are not as simple as you might presume, 4/18 False Liability Release Answers May Have Cost a Widow Dearly, 4/18 Mares Tests Full-Face Snorkeling Masks in the Light of Snorkeling Deaths, 4/18 If Attacked, You’re Not Just a Shark Attack Statistic!, 3/18 75 Hours Afloat At Sea and Survived!, an unplanned feat of endurance and lessons learned, 3/18 Get Your Weights Off First!, 3/18 Divers Adrift Eight Hours in the Philippines, 2/18 Rebreathers: What Every Scuba Diver Needs to Know, and know about the diver next to you using one, 2/18 The Most Dangerous Thing You’ll Meet Underwater? Your Boat’s Propeller, 2/18 Cozumel Dive Boat Sinks, 2/18 Get Your Weights Off First!, 2/18 Panic Kills Too Many Divers, be aware that loss of control is a killer, 2/18 Misfortune Follows the Siren Fleet, is there something inherently wrong?, 1/18 Wooden Hulls, Tumble Dryers and Single Engines, 1/18 Don’t Skimp on the Oxygen, 1/18 Catastrophe at Cocos Island, Costa Rica, a diver is killed in a tiger shark attack, 1/18

Medical Studies & Other Afflications

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all How Strong is Your Heart?, 7/23 Insurance Claim Denied, But I'm a New Person, 3/23 Don't Let Bonaire's Easy Diving Fool You, 1/23 Hydration, Diving, and SIPE, the Killer, when too much water is a danger, 11/22 The Short Cut Mentality in Divers, a road to disaster, 10/22 Unexplained Snorkel Deaths in Hawaii, the same issue for scuba divers, 9/22 SIPE - Be Aware of the Symptoms, 9/22 Diving Accident Stats are "Inaccurate ... Manipulated ... Misrepresented", 8/22 Decompression Stops: What We Don’t Know, it’s still an imprecise science, 7/22 Have Dive Accidents and Fatalities Increased?, 6/22 More on PFO, “That Perfectly Formed Hole”, 2/22 IPE and Why It’s Good to Feel the Need to Pee, a cause of fatality that often gets overlooked, 1/22 PFO – That Perfectly Formed Hole, your heart and DCS, 11/21 Be Concerned About the Guy Across the Aisle , 10/21 Covid Patients are Filling Hyperbaric Facilities, 9/21 Back in the Water Again, and a look at the options for dive travel, 7/21     Available to the Public Diver and Instructor Fitness, 5/20 Shark-Free Fish ’n Chips, 5/20 Is it Bad News for Divers Who Suffer COVID-19?, could the effects have contraindications for diving?, 5/20 The Excess Weight We Carry, should dive operators reject high BMI, plus-size divers?, 3/20 That Weight Belt Can Kill You, 2/20 Head/Mares Discovers the Reason for Full Face Mask Deaths, 1/20 Recent Deaths Highlight the Risks for Older Divers, 9/19 Diver Uses Nasal Spray to Clear His Ears While Underwater: Is That Smart?, 8/19 For Some Divers, Waiting Only 24 Hours before Flying Is Not Enough Time, 8/19 Why You May Be Experiencing “Oxygen Ear”, 7/19 The Real-Time Data Every Dive Computer Should Have, 5/19 Don’t Ignore that Dive Injury, beware if you or the crew say no to medical assistance, 5/19 Maybe This Is the Reason Why His Wife Drowned, 4/19 Is Menopause a Cause of the Bends?, 3/19 Why Divers Die: Part II, boat engines, unfamiliar dive gear and hyperhydration, 2/19 The Divers Most At Risk for Heart Attacks, 9/18 Fitness, Diving and Dehydration, how not to mix these three things in the wrong combination, 9/18 A DAN Survey on Diver Fitness: Is Your Liver as Healthy as your Heart and Lungs?, 6/18 Scuba Diving Can Be Hazardous to Your Health, the unseen enemy but just as deadly, 6/18

Diving Diseases & Drugs

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Don't Ignore it My Friends: COVID Preys on Traveling Divers, 9/22 Traveling Divers are Quarantined, and yet, no COVID testing is allowed, 2/22 Another COVID on Liveaboard Story: Hope for the Best and be Prepared for the Worst, 1/22 The Ugly American Unmasked, on divers respecting and protecting others, 11/21 Vaccinated and Wonder If it’s Safe to Travel?, risks to consider and mitigate, 9/21   Available to the Public Is it Bad News for Divers Who Suffer COVID-19?, could the effects have contraindications for diving?, 5/20 Stranded in Honduras: Our Utila Escape, how two American divers struggled to get home, 4/20 Diving, Travel, Coronavirus, Chaos, What’s happening to the traveling diver and our destinations?, 4/20 Avoiding Any Infections from Scuba Equipment, are you confident your regulator remains pathogen-free?, 4/20 Don’t Worry about Coronavirus in Your Scuba Tank, 4/20 Coronavirus – Will it Affect Your Dive Travel Plans?, some thoughts to help you decide whether to embark, 3/20 The Best Traveler’s Diarrhea Drug, unaffordable in the U.S. so turn to Canada, 2/20 Diving and Hepatitis C: Know the Facts, 2/18

Stings, Burns & Other Nuisances

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Novel Emergency Treatment for Lionfish Envenomation, 8/23 The Perils of Coral Cuts in Tropical Climates, 7/22   Available to the Public Jellyfish Mucus Found to be a Cause of Sea Itch, 3/20 Why You May Be Experiencing “Oxygen Ear”, 7/19 Are Those Bedbugs in Your Dive Gear?, 2/19 No More Tropical Mosquito Bites, 3/18

Diving Practices

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Four Divers in North Carolina Rescued Far at Sea, 9/23 When a Dive Guide is Wrong Make Sure Your Weight Belt is Not Impeded, 8/23 It's Not Always the Bends, 3/23 Another Cozumel Propeller Accident , 2/23 Lost and Found - How Lucky He Is , 2/23 Cozumel Diver Disappears from Surface , what you need to know about down currents, 2/23 And Don't Forget about RipTides , 2/23 Avatars' Actors' Amazing Breath Holding Skills, 1/23 The Short Cut Mentality in Divers, a road to disaster, 10/22 SIPE - Be Aware of the Symptoms, 9/22 Common Sunscreens Can Damage Marine Life (and You Too), 8/22 We Asked: Do You Download Your Dives?, the digital revolution is big in scuba, 8/22 Never Forget: Let Your BC Find the Surface, 8/22 Don't Be Reluctant to Use Air: It's What We Did When That's All We Had, 8/22 Overtaken by the Race for Certification or Age?, some very experienced divers may be turned away, 6/22 Are All Diving Instructors Up to The Job?, what works in the book may be unsafe in the water, 4/22 That Snorkel Can Save Your Life, 2/22 Do You Use a Backup Computer, Part II, only your computers count, 2/22 Put Your Fins On Last and Avoid Taking a Tumble , 10/21 Covid Patients are Filling Hyperbaric Facilities, 9/21 Understand Your Diving Computer, a Galapagos diving incident, 9/21 Available to the Public Diver and Instructor Fitness, 5/20 Those Full-face Snorkeling Masks – More to the Story, 3/20 Full-Face Flop, 10/19 Diver Uses Nasal Spray to Clear His Ears While Underwater: Is That Smart?, 8/19 When That Dive Training Came In Handy, letters from readers about how they handled diving crises, 8/19 Can You Handle A Crisis Underwater?, or are you toast if something unexpected happens?, 7/19 There’s an Easier Way to Dump Air from Your BC, 5/19 Technical Diving: Is It For You?, “nobody had any problems using air at 180 feet”, 4/19 Sidemount Diving: Take that Weight off Your Back, 4/19 Should You Let the “Dentists of the Sea” Clean Your Teeth?, 3/19 A Huge Great White Shark Controversy, what’s the difference between advocacy and self-promotion?, 2/19 New Zealand Just Banned Cage Diving with Sharks, 2/19 Discover Scuba Diving Is Deadly, two more fatalities - one being a 13-year-old boy, 2/19 Reef Safe Sunscreen Isn’t Safe -- And Its Maker Doesn’t Care, 2/19 Why Divers Die: Part I, being lazy, getting fat and succumbing to panic are big factors, 1/19 Is This Diver Carrying too Much Weight?, 11/18 Don’t Bust Your Ears, 11/18 Part II: The Ups and Downs of Ocean Currents, how to enjoy diving -- and avoid getting lost -- in them, 11/18 Some Divers Really Need to Drop a Few Pounds, 10/18 Why Even Air-Breathing Divers Should Analyze Their Tanks, 10/18 Is Your Mouthpiece Causing You Pain?, 9/18 Shore Diving Is Not for Everyone, 8/18 You? Run Out of Air? Impossible . . . Right?, what about your buddy? How to be prepared for the last gasp, 8/18 Discover Scuba Diving Course Leads to Fatality, a single instructor is not enough, 7/18 When Sport Divers Meet Spearfishers, 6/18 Diving Computer Algorithms Are Important, and you should be on the same page as your buddy, 6/18 Dwindling Dive Stores, 5/18 Sending Your Sausage Safely, letting them know where you are before you surface, 4/18 A Safety Sausage Can Save Your Life, 4/18 Get Your Weights Off First!, 2/18

Dive Travel

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Divers of a Certain Age: Part I, The Freedom to Dive, 9/23 Reflections on the Philippines Capsizing. Carrying Four Divers to the Depths, 7/23 Carlton Queen Capsizes in the Red Sea, what happened next, 7/23 What’s Going on in Chuuk Lagoon?, 4/23 Surviving a Liveaboard Emergency, 3/23 Mexico Closes Down Great White Shark Cage Diving , and there are questions why, 2/23 Carbon Monoxide is a Killer, 11/22 Equipment Checks to Prepare for Diving, 11/22 Lack of Progress in Implementing Conception Safety Recommendations, 10/22 Don't Ignore it My Friends: COVID Preys on Traveling Divers, 9/22 How Safe Are You From Fire?, lessons from the Allegro Cozumel Hotel fire, 9/22 The Perils of Travel Remain in the Time of COVID, a cautionary tale of our times, 8/22 Scuba Scene – Another Liveaboard Burns, with conflicting perceptions of the aftermath, 6/22 Country COVID Entry Rules, 3/22 Conception Tragedy Leads to New Safety Rules, 2/22 Traveling Divers are Quarantined, and yet, no COVID testing is allowed, 2/22 Another COVID on Liveaboard Story: Hope for the Best and be Prepared for the Worst, 1/22 Dive Travel in the Time of Coronavirus, when the passengers and crew test positive, 11/21 The Ugly American Unmasked, on divers respecting and protecting others, 11/21 Be Concerned About the Guy Across the Aisle , 10/21 Vaccinated and Wonder If it’s Safe to Travel?, risks to consider and mitigate, 9/21 The Loss of a Diving Icon, 9/21 Back in the Water Again, and a look at the options for dive travel, 7/21   Available to the Public Can You Trust Your Dive Guide?, are they as careful and responsible as they should be?, 5/20 Stranded in Honduras: Our Utila Escape, how two American divers struggled to get home, 4/20 Diving, Travel, Coronavirus, Chaos, What’s happening to the traveling diver and our destinations?, 4/20 Coronavirus – Will it Affect Your Dive Travel Plans?, some thoughts to help you decide whether to embark, 3/20 When Your Cabin Mate Gets Sick, can you count on the crew to help you avoid contagion?, 2/20 The Best Traveler’s Diarrhea Drug, unaffordable in the U.S. so turn to Canada, 2/20 A Template for Liveaboard Safety Precautions, From the Undersea Hunter fleet, 2/20 Lithium-ion Battery Safety: Industry Experts Give Their Points of View, 1/20 U.S. Coast Guard Regulations under Criticism in Wake of the Conception Tragedy, 1/20 Are Those Bedbugs in Your Dive Gear?, 2/19 Discover Scuba Diving Is Deadly, two more fatalities - one being a 13-year-old boy, 2/19 Confused about Lithium Batteries?, 1/19 Pirates of Papua New Guinea, 10/18 Unvarnished Truth Can Hurt But It’s Still the Truth, 6/18 Diving in Lembeh Can Be Infectious!, 4/18 Solutions for Rescue When Lost at Sea, they are not as simple as you might presume, 4/18 More Views on AOW Certifications, get the cert, save the grief!, 4/18 Misfortune Follows the Siren Fleet, is there something inherently wrong?, 1/18 Wooden Hulls, Tumble Dryers and Single Engines, 1/18

Other Dangers in Diving

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Be Wary of Drug-Crazed Sharks?, 8/23 Don't Snorkel with a Saltie, 7/23 Are You Safe on a Liveaboard?, Not all liveaboards show adequate concern for your safety., 5/23 Full-face Snorkeling Mask Implicated Again, 5/23 We Can Only Dream About Petit Mustique, Or can we?, 5/23 Should Divers Fear an Orca?, 4/23 A Painful Ear Infection from Polluted Indonesian Seas , 2/23 Red Sea Liveaboard Smacks into a Reef at Night , Are liveaboards getting reckless?, 2/23 Socorro Aggressor Fails the Test, dumped at last from the Aggressor Fleet, 1/23 Carbon Monoxide is a Killer, 11/22 When You're Adrift in the Sea, a personal locator beacon will save your bacon, 11/22 Mother and Her Sons Get Left at the Surface, 10/22 How to Avoid a Shark Attack, 9/22 An Important Advance for Closed-Circuit Divers, 8/22 Nothing But Bad Luck, 7/22 The Yucatan Stonewalls its Diving Deaths, and the streets can be dangerous, 7/22 An Opinion about Liveaboard Safety, who’s driving the boat while you sleep?, 7/22 The Bicycle Thief, 4/22 The GoPro Selfie-Stick as Unwanted Shark Bait, 11/21 Freak Needlefish Accident , 10/21   Available to the Public Keeping the Shark Myth Going, 4/20 Letters to the Editor: Too Much Weight to Dive?, 4/20 Those Full-face Snorkeling Masks – More to the Story, 3/20 An Investment for the Gullible, 2/20 Sharks are Not Pussycats as Shark Divers Discover, 11/19 The Potential of a Liveaboard Fire, how to protect yourself, 11/19 New Fire Safety Regulations Coming for US Liveaboards, 11/19 Murder, Bombing and Mass Destruction in Sabah, an illegal fishing method becomes a deadly diving hazard, 8/19 Flesh-Eating Bacteria Strikes in Florida, 8/19 Your Letters to the Editor, health hazards, airline issues and divemasters’ responsibilities, 5/19 Do These So-Called Shark Repellants Keep Sharks at Bay?, 3/19 Another Good Story about that Epic Thai Cave Dive Rescue, 1/19 A Diver Boosts the #MeToo Movement in Egypt, 1/19 Why Are Red Sea Sharks Biting More Often?, 1/19 Don’t Bust Your Ears, 11/18 A Tough Lesson to Learn from a Dive Tragedy, 11/18 Part I: The Ups and Downs of Ocean Currents, strategies for surviving them, 10/18 Divers and Dolphins: How Much Should They Mix?, 10/18 Pirates of the Caribbean, 9/18 Help Indonesia Recover from Earthquake Disaster, 9/18 Extreme Courage -- and a Good Nose, cave divers’ amazing rescue of the Wild Boar soccer team, 8/18 A Caribbean Influx of Deadly Weed, 7/18 Do You Want Diving Regulated?, some countries do have statutes, 7/18 More Tiger Trouble in Cocos, getting to grips with a troublesome shark, 6/18 Your Battery Charger: a Real Risk of Liveaboard Fire, 5/18 Still Trouble with Full-Face Snorkeling Masks? A Retired Mares Dealer Makes His Reservations Clear, 5/18 Mares Tests Full-Face Snorkeling Masks in the Light of Snorkeling Deaths, 4/18 WAOW Liveaboard a Total Loss, 2/18 Roatan Park Rangers Face Death Threats, during the fight to preserve the reefs, 2/18

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