Diving Environment & Miscellanous Articles

Marine Environment

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Our Disappearing Reef Sharks, 9/23 When Good Intentions are Ill-founded, 7/23 Banning Fishing at Revillagigedo National Park Works, 7/23 Another Killer on Caribbean Reefs, 7/23 Cage Diving with Great White Sharks Coming to Nova Scotia? Maybe, 5/23 A New Dive Site? It's Garbage!, 5/23 Flotsam & Jetsam, 5/23 As Animals Confront Us, We Must Blame Ourselves, 4/23 Lend A Hand on Your Next Dive Vacation: Part I, save the reefs, maybe save on taxes, 4/23 Golden Tides Threaten Mexico's and Florida's Reefs and Beaches, 3/23 Ships May Be Fueling a Coral-Killing Epidemic , 2/23 Dave Crosby was a Serious Diver , 2/23 Decaying WWII Wrecks Threaten Coral Reefs, 1/23 Who Can Save Dying Reefs? Fish!, 11/22 Climate Change is Eliminating Florida's Male Turtles, 11/22 Undercurrent Awarded Grant, 11/22 Fishermen versus Divers Comes to a Head in Florida, charged with a felony for freeing fish, 10/22 What Happens to Your Unwanted Neoprene Products?, 9/22 Mexico's Guadalupe Closed to Great White Diving, 9/22 Tire Wear Kills Fish, 9/22 Common Sunscreens Can Damage Marine Life (and You Too), 8/22 Dolphins a Casualty of War, 7/22 Lionfish Leather? Could It Be a Solution?, 7/22 Another Big Hurricane Season, 6/22 That Deadly Underwater Debris:, not only unsightly, but it’s a killer, 6/22 Pathogens in the Ocean?, 6/22 Caribbean Reefs Take a Further Battering, 6/22 Can Sharks Learn to Hunt Lionfish?, and why teaching them is not the best idea, 4/22 Ghost Fishing for the Birds, 4/22 Florida Goliath Grouper Protection Battle Lost, 3/22 Save a Reef? Weed it Like You’d Weed a Garden, 3/22 Yucatan Cenotes in Danger of Destruction, 3/22 The Lionfish’s Fear of Being Eaten, could the groupers’ appetite be crucial?, 3/22 Lego Reveals the Longevity of Plastic in the Ocean, 3/22 Rubbish Photography, 2/22 By-Product of a Pandemic, 2/22 Award Winning but Sad, 2/22 Starving Manatees Get Salad and a Warm Bath, 2/22 Cayman Stony Coral Disease, 1/22 The Goliath Grouper Needs Your Help by January 13th, 1/22 Award Winning Eel Shot, 1/22 Diving with a Grim Purpose, 1/22 Car Tires Discarded in the Ocean Trap Hermit Crabs Forever, 11/21 Galapagos Migratory Sharks Threatened by Giant Chinese Fishing Fleet , 10/21 Freak Needlefish Accident , 10/21 Insuring The Local Reef: Is this the Future of Conservation?, 9/21 Undercurrent is Saving Olive Ridley Turtles, 7/21   Available to the Public Good News about Saving America’s Reefs, 5/20 Shark-Free Fish ’n Chips, 5/20 Nature Takes Advantage of the Lockdown, 5/20 Undercurrent Readers’ Rescue Australian Wildlife from the Devastating Fires, 5/20 Good News for Coral in South Caicos, 4/20 Is that Aquarium Coral Farmed or Wild Coral? You Can’t Tell, 3/20 Goliath Groupers: Better in the Water than on the Plate, 3/20 The Ticking Time Bomb of War Wrecks, 2/20 Climate Change is Killing Clownfish, 1/20 The Rich Sounds of Healthy Reefs May Save Them, 1/20 How You Can Purge Plastic from the Ocean, 11/19 After the Storm -- The Bahamas, 10/19 Climate Change Affects the Sardine Run, 10/19 Dying Coral Closes Much of Cozumel Diving, and both the reefs and the jobs are on the line, 10/19 Island Scuba Destinations That Will be Gone in Less than a Century, 9/19 Too Many Divers in Raja Ampat?, how “Instagram Tourism” is ruining dive destinations, 9/19 It’s the Tiny Fish That Are Important, 9/19 Can Genetic Engineering Save Coral Reefs?, 8/19 Undercurrent Gets Grant for Coverage of Environmental Issues and Advocacy, 7/19 More Global Shipping Means More Invasive Marine Species on Coral Reefs, 6/19 The Mission to Save Our Oceans By Next Year, how one dive company is convincing others to dump plastic, 6/19 Helium Is Now Harder to Get, 6/19 How This Diver’s Coastal Cleanup Plan Has Turned Him into a Hero, 5/19 Red Tide Is Gone, But Here Is Florida’s New Coastal Threat, 4/19 The “Canaries of the Reef” Are in Trouble, 4/19 Shark Fins Are Banned in 12 U.S. States -- But It’s Still on the Menu, 3/19 The Cocos-Galapagos Swimway for Turtles and Sharks, 2/19 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 Reef Safe Sunscreen Isn’t Safe -- And Its Maker Doesn’t Care, 2/19 Big Trouble at Blue Heron Bridge, an aquarium is accused of plundering its signature marine life, 1/19 Dumping Lead Down the Toilet Gets a $197,000 Fine, 1/19 No Abalone Diving in California Until at Least 2021, 1/19 Invasive Lionfish and Crowns-of-Thorns May Have Met Their Match, 11/18 Scubapro Steps Up, 10/18 Dive Industry, Stop with the Plastic, and how you, our fellow divers, can help, 9/18 Hawaii Fish Collectors: In a Fine Mesh, 9/18 How Travelin’ Divers Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprints, 9/18 A Single Drop of Sunscreen Can Kill Coral, yet Reef Safe’s manufacturer continues to market the killer, 8/18 Quiet, Please! Marine Noise is Making Fish Deaf, 8/18 Undercurrent Receives $1000 Environmental Grant, 7/18 Plastic Packaging and the Diving Industry, do the big manufacturers care enough?, 7/18 Mission 2020, 7/18 The Lesson Of Walden Pond Or Why Not To Pee Underwater, 6/18 When Diving in the Maldives Disappoints, the right information guides expectations, 6/18 Another Non-Native Species in Florida, 6/18 Scuba Diving Can Be Hazardous to Your Health, the unseen enemy but just as deadly, 6/18 Deadman Diving – Whatever Next?, 5/18 Plastic? Some Dive Operators Step Up, 5/18 Ghost Net Massacres, Cayman Marine Life, 5/18 The End of American Abalone Diving?, a desperate situation demands desperate measures, 5/18 Respect That Lobster, 4/18 A Creative Way to Create Marine Parks and the U.S. Must Step Up, 4/18 Does Your Light Cause Critters Harm?, are high-powered video lights a concern?, 4/18 Divers Disappointed in Sipadan, 3/18 Fiji and Belize Protect their Reefs, 2/18 The Diving Industry Must Get Rid of Disposable Plastic, 2/18 Roatan Park Rangers Face Death Threats, during the fight to preserve the reefs, 2/18 Will the Sport of Scuba Diving Survive?, 1/18 Plastic is Suffocating the Ocean, and the dive industry must share the blame, 1/18

Marine Life

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Our Disappearing Reef Sharks, 9/23 The Tricky Trumpetfish, 9/23 Underjungle: An Underwater Fantasy, 9/23 Visiting Dominica's Sperm Whales, 8/23 Be Wary of Drug-Crazed Sharks?, 8/23 When Good Intentions are Ill-founded, 7/23 Banning Fishing at Revillagigedo National Park Works, 7/23 Don't Snorkel with a Saltie, 7/23 A Serious Shark Bite After the Dive Ended, 7/23 Another Killer on Caribbean Reefs, 7/23 Lend A Hand On Your Next Dive Vacation: Part II, save the reefs, maybe save on taxes, 7/23 Volunteering for Maldives Whale Shark Research, 7/23 The Curaçao Aquarium - Not for Animal Lovers, 5/23 Stony Coral Disease Closes Bonaire Dive Sites, 5/23 Cage Diving with Great White Sharks Coming to Nova Scotia? Maybe, 5/23 Too Many Divers and Snorkelers Reduce Molokini Fish Populations, 5/23 A New Dive Site? It's Garbage!, 5/23 We Can Only Dream About Petit Mustique, Or can we?, 5/23 As Animals Confront Us, We Must Blame Ourselves, 4/23 The Weird World of Sea Slugs, 4/23 Should Divers Fear an Orca?, 4/23 Thieves? Maybe, and We Need More Like Them, 3/23 Ships May Be Fueling a Coral-Killing Epidemic , 2/23 Manta Populations Improve , 2/23 Mexico Closes Down Great White Shark Cage Diving , and there are questions why, 2/23 Who Can Save Dying Reefs? Fish!, 11/22 Climate Change is Eliminating Florida's Male Turtles, 11/22 Have You Seen This Pink Manta?, 11/22 Feds Target Companies Involved in U.S. Shark Fin Trade, 10/22 Fishermen versus Divers Comes to a Head in Florida, charged with a felony for freeing fish, 10/22 How to Avoid a Shark Attack, 9/22 Tire Wear Kills Fish, 9/22 It's a Less Than Silent World, 8/22 Dolphins a Casualty of War, 7/22 Lionfish Leather? Could It Be a Solution?, 7/22 Amos Nachoum Authors a BIG Book And It’s a Must for Your Coffee Table, 7/22 Dolphins versus Divers in War, 6/22 Tough Punishment for an Unauthorized Dive Boat Buoy Line, 6/22 That Deadly Underwater Debris:, not only unsightly, but it’s a killer, 6/22 Can Sharks Learn to Hunt Lionfish?, and why teaching them is not the best idea, 4/22 Sydney Shark Kills Swimming PADI Instructor, 4/22 Ghost Fishing for the Birds, 4/22 Florida Goliath Grouper Protection Battle Lost, 3/22 Do Great Whites Mate off the Carolinas?, 3/22 The Lionfish’s Fear of Being Eaten, could the groupers’ appetite be crucial?, 3/22 Lego Reveals the Longevity of Plastic in the Ocean, 3/22 Rubbish Photography, 2/22 By-Product of a Pandemic, 2/22 Award Winning but Sad, 2/22 Do Fish Talk? Yes Indeed, 2/22 Starving Manatees Get Salad and a Warm Bath, 2/22 Cayman Stony Coral Disease, 1/22 The Goliath Grouper Needs Your Help by January 13th, 1/22 Award Winning Eel Shot, 1/22 Car Tires Discarded in the Ocean Trap Hermit Crabs Forever, 11/21 The Valerie Taylor Story, 11/21 Guidelines for Divers to Avoid Spreading Coral Disease , 10/21 Galapagos Migratory Sharks Threatened by Giant Chinese Fishing Fleet , 10/21 Freak Needlefish Accident , 10/21 Insuring The Local Reef: Is this the Future of Conservation?, 9/21 Undercurrent is Saving Olive Ridley Turtles, 7/21     Available to the Public Good News about Saving America’s Reefs, 5/20 Shark-Free Fish ’n Chips, 5/20 Jack Randall, the Original Fish ID Book Author, Passes, 5/20 Nature Takes Advantage of the Lockdown, 5/20 Good News for Coral in South Caicos, 4/20 California’s Giant Sea Bass – A Promising Story, 4/20 Keeping the Shark Myth Going, 4/20 Thoughtless Boater Damages Florida Corals, 4/20 Is that Aquarium Coral Farmed or Wild Coral? You Can’t Tell, 3/20 Goliath Groupers: Better in the Water than on the Plate, 3/20 Two Shark Attacks on Divers, you can be unlucky or very unlucky, 3/20 The Ticking Time Bomb of War Wrecks, 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 Climate Change is Killing Clownfish, 1/20 The Rich Sounds of Healthy Reefs May Save Them, 1/20 How You Can Purge Plastic from the Ocean, 11/19 Sharks are Not Pussycats as Shark Divers Discover, 11/19 After the Storm -- The Bahamas, 10/19 Climate Change Affects the Sardine Run, 10/19 Dying Coral Closes Much of Cozumel Diving, and both the reefs and the jobs are on the line, 10/19 The Seahorses off Long Beach, CA, 9/19 The Dawn Chorus Underwater, 9/19 It’s the Tiny Fish That Are Important, 9/19 Can Genetic Engineering Save Coral Reefs?, 8/19 Are Great Whites the Ocean’s Most Fearsome Predators? New Findings Say No, 7/19 Killed by Sharks While Snorkeling with Pigs, 7/19 More Global Shipping Means More Invasive Marine Species on Coral Reefs, 6/19 Snorkeler Gets Swallowed by a Whale, 5/19 Red Tide Is Gone, But Here Is Florida’s New Coastal Threat, 4/19 The “Canaries of the Reef” Are in Trouble, 4/19 Strobes Don’t Damage the Marine Life, 3/19 Should You Let the “Dentists of the Sea” Clean Your Teeth?, 3/19 Do These So-Called Shark Repellants Keep Sharks at Bay?, 3/19 Can a Fish Tell If a Scuba Diver Is Armed?, 3/19 Shark Fins Are Banned in 12 U.S. States -- But It’s Still on the Menu, 3/19 Want Your Own Fiji Shark?, 2/19 The Cocos-Galapagos Swimway for Turtles and Sharks, 2/19 Diver Scallops? Give Me a Break, 2/19 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 Reef Safe Sunscreen Isn’t Safe -- And Its Maker Doesn’t Care, 2/19 Why Are Red Sea Sharks Biting More Often?, 1/19 Big Trouble at Blue Heron Bridge, an aquarium is accused of plundering its signature marine life, 1/19 “I Very Quickly Realized It Was a Crocodile”, 1/19 No Abalone Diving in California Until at Least 2021, 1/19 A New Spin on Dolphin-Human Interactions, 11/18 Invasive Lionfish and Crowns-of-Thorns May Have Met Their Match, 11/18 The “White Shark Cafe”: A Hot New Winter Hangout, 11/18 Divers and Dolphins: How Much Should They Mix?, 10/18 Shorter Dive Times at Cocos Island?, 10/18 Dive Industry, Stop with the Plastic, and how you, our fellow divers, can help, 9/18 Florida’s Red Tide Crisis: Which Dive Spots Are Affected, 9/18 Hawaii Fish Collectors: In a Fine Mesh, 9/18 A Single Drop of Sunscreen Can Kill Coral, yet Reef Safe’s manufacturer continues to market the killer, 8/18 Quiet, Please! Marine Noise is Making Fish Deaf, 8/18 A Caribbean Influx of Deadly Weed, 7/18 The Soul of a Fish Monger, the smartest critter spared from the grill, 7/18 Another Non-Native Species in Florida, 6/18 Scuba Diving Can Be Hazardous to Your Health, the unseen enemy but just as deadly, 6/18 More Tiger Trouble in Cocos, getting to grips with a troublesome shark, 6/18 Ghost Net Massacres, Cayman Marine Life, 5/18 The End of American Abalone Diving?, a desperate situation demands desperate measures, 5/18 Respect That Lobster, 4/18 A Creative Way to Create Marine Parks and the U.S. Must Step Up, 4/18 Does Your Light Cause Critters Harm?, are high-powered video lights a concern?, 4/18 If Attacked, You’re Not Just a Shark Attack Statistic!, 3/18 What’s the Latin Name For It?, 3/18 Divers Disappointed in Sipadan, 3/18 Lionfish-Killing Contests Can Work, 2/18 Fiji and Belize Protect their Reefs, 2/18 Legal Protection for Fish?, 2/18 Shark Shapes Are Significant, 2/18 A Kauai Frogfish Follow-Up, letters from Hawaii and what you thought, 1/18 Catastrophe at Cocos Island, Costa Rica, a diver is killed in a tiger shark attack, 1/18 Another Tiger Shark Incident, 1/18

Dive Industry

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Homage to Stan Waterman, an underwater icon passes, 9/23 Is Wetpixel Breaking Bad?, the slippery slope toward fraud?, 9/23 The Dive - 90 Minutes on Amazon with 22 Minutes of Air, 9/23 Divers of a Certain Age: Part I, The Freedom to Dive, 9/23 Underjungle: An Underwater Fantasy, 9/23 Travel with a UK Agency, and You Won't Lose Money, 8/23 The Deepest Breath, a great documentary but it all ends in death, 8/23 Fancy Your Own Dive Center in the Sun?, maybe you're due for a different lifestyle, 7/23 R.I.P. Pirate's Point, 7/23 How Special is a PADI 5-Star Designation?, 5/23 We Can Only Dream About Petit Mustique, Or can we?, 5/23 Divemaster or Dive Guide?, 4/23 Strange Tales from the Deep, 4/23 What? No PADI Solo Diving Certification Accepted?, 3/23 Those Damn Fuel Surcharges, and not much we can do about it, 3/23 PADI Pays Up After a Training Death, It's settled, but expect no public insight about PADI, 3/23 Another Georgia Dive Instructor Guilty, 1/23 Socorro Aggressor Fails the Test, dumped at last from the Aggressor Fleet, 1/23 Undercurrent Awarded Grant, 11/22 What Happens to Your Unwanted Neoprene Products?, 9/22 Mexico's Guadalupe Closed to Great White Diving, 9/22 Rude Divers - a Dive Center's Perspective, 9/22 Japanese Dive Shop Apologizes, 9/22 Advanced Diver, Really?, 9/22 Your Trip Reports Are Important, 8/22 Bonaire Update, 8/22 So, Who Writes Undercurrent?, 8/22 U.S. Dive Magazine's Best Diving Destinations, reader's votes only mean they have been there, 8/22 Before the Internet, You Called Bob Goddess to Go Diving, 8/22 PADI Responds to Cancun Diver Fatalities, 8/22 What’s the Significance of “Advanced” in PADI AOW Certification?, 7/22 The Yucatan Stonewalls its Diving Deaths, and the streets can be dangerous, 7/22 Overtaken by the Race for Certification or Age?, some very experienced divers may be turned away, 6/22 Russian Scuba Embargos, 4/22 Ninety-Nine Years and Counting, Stan Waterman’s camera brought scuba diving to the world, 4/22 Diving With Grim Purpose (continued), 4/22 Are All Diving Instructors Up to The Job?, what works in the book may be unsafe in the water, 4/22 Want to Enroll in an Underwater Photography Course?, 3/22 Your Reader Reports are Important, 3/22 Looking for a Diving Job?, 3/22 The Valerie Taylor Story, 11/21 It’s Not OK to Sell Dive Gear to Libya, rebreather expert in trouble again, 11/21 Is Your Computer Too Conservative? Not On Your Life!, 9/21 The Loss of a Diving Icon, 9/21 A Dream Diving Job in Mexico; no visibility, surrounded by the detritus of human life, 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 Tough Times in the Dive Travel Industry, resort and boat owners to tell us how they are managing, 5/20 Plenty of Tales of Woe Among Traveling Divers, Paid for a trip? Don’t set your heart on a refund, 5/20 Airline Ticket Refunds; It’s the Law!, 5/20 Can You Trust Your Dive Guide?, are they as careful and responsible as they should be?, 5/20 Jack Randall, the Original Fish ID Book Author, Passes, 5/20 Undercurrent Readers’ Rescue Australian Wildlife from the Devastating Fires, 5/20 Bigger Fish Suffer More from Climate Change, 5/20 Diving, Travel, Coronavirus, Chaos, What’s happening to the traveling diver and our destinations?, 4/20 Nautilus Liveaboards Gets Flack and Responds Well, 4/20 Refunds on Flight Tickets?, 4/20 The Excess Weight We Carry, should dive operators reject high BMI, plus-size divers?, 3/20 How Much “Fat Shaming” Is There in Diving?, 3/20 An Investment for the Gullible, 2/20 American Underwater Photography Team Cleans Up Again, 2/20 When Your Cabin Mate Gets Sick, can you count on the crew to help you avoid contagion?, 2/20 The Conception had been Exempted from USCG Fire Safety Standards, 2/20 Kids’ Sea Camp, 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 The Etiquette of Tipping on Dive Trips: Part II, are Americans just good tippers or total suckers?, 11/19 The Potential of a Liveaboard Fire, how to protect yourself, 11/19 New Fire Safety Regulations Coming for US Liveaboards, 11/19 The Picture of His Life, Yonatan Nir and what lay behind his film of Amos Nachoum, 11/19 Those Underwater Photo Courses, some that really deliver, 11/19 Too Many Divers in Raja Ampat?, how “Instagram Tourism” is ruining dive destinations, 9/19 Is PADI Diver Training Adequate?, there’s more to diving than simply getting a C-card, 9/19 What About the Marine Head?, 9/19 Farewell to a Top Treasure Hunter, 8/19 Undercurrent Gets Grant for Coverage of Environmental Issues and Advocacy, 7/19 PADI Buys America’s Two Biggest Dive Magazines, 7/19 Want to Buy a Dive Center or Liveaboard?, we found a few, if you’re looking for something new to do, 7/19 Bahamas Master Cancels On Diver Twice In Two Years, 7/19 Why Does Explorer Ventures Still Have a Fuel Surcharge?, 6/19 Are We Americans Good Tippers or Just Total Suckers?, 6/19 How You Can Get Great Underwater Pictures, start raw, stalk your subject, and more tips, 6/19 By Land or by Sea: What Makes for the Best Diving?, 5/19 Cozumel, Raja Ampat, Cuba, Grand Turk . . ., plus advice on wetsuits and resort options for older divers, 5/19 Got any Tales of Unexpected Dive Travel Bills?, 5/19 Your Letters to the Editor, health hazards, airline issues and divemasters’ responsibilities, 5/19 Technical Diving: Is It For You?, “nobody had any problems using air at 180 feet”, 4/19 Diver Scallops? Give Me a Break, 2/19 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 Random Thoughts on Dive Travel Glitches, avoiding cramped cabins, airport issues and nighttime noises, 1/19 A Diver Boosts the #MeToo Movement in Egypt, 1/19 Dumping Lead Down the Toilet Gets a $197,000 Fine, 1/19 Readers Have Their Say about Our Review of Sunset House, 1/19 Wreck Diving for Beginners, should a teenager with four dives really be visiting Chuuk?, 1/19 Fake News: The Diving Version, 11/18 What’s the Craziest Thing You’ve Seen While Diving?, 10/18 Help Indonesia Recover from Earthquake Disaster, 9/18 Dive Industry, Stop with the Plastic, and how you, our fellow divers, can help, 9/18 Deadman Diving: Not A Dive Agency Product, but are the dive agencies turning a blind eye to it?, 9/18 In Praise of Liveaboards, why it’s more than just the diving that makes them better, 9/18 Extreme Courage -- and a Good Nose, cave divers’ amazing rescue of the Wild Boar soccer team, 8/18 Who Are the Rudest Divers?, the slow ones? or those who have to wait for them?, 8/18 Undercurrent Receives $1000 Environmental Grant, 7/18 The Soul of a Fish Monger, the smartest critter spared from the grill, 7/18 Do You Want Diving Regulated?, some countries do have statutes, 7/18 Mission 2020, 7/18 Our 10,000th Reader’s Report, 7/18 Flies in the Face of Good Business, 6/18 A DAN Survey on Diver Fitness: Is Your Liver as Healthy as your Heart and Lungs?, 6/18 Will You Be the One to Submit Our 10,000th Reader’s Report?, 6/18 No Side-Mount Tanks on Aggressors?, 6/18 Unvarnished Truth Can Hurt But It’s Still the Truth, 6/18 Dwindling Dive Stores, 5/18 Deadman Diving – Whatever Next?, 5/18 Plastic? Some Dive Operators Step Up, 5/18 Undercurrent Subscribers Set a Guinness Record: The Oldest Couple Diving, 5/18 “MeToo” in the Dive Industry, it’s still more like being the “Second Sex” for many women divers, 5/18 Are Underwater Photography Courses Good Value? We Want To Hear From You, 5/18 Your Travel Reports Are Important, 4/18 A New Feature for Your Travel Reports, 4/18 When Diving Disappoints, and big animals are a no-show, 4/18 So Who Owns PADI?, 4/18 More Views on AOW Certifications, get the cert, save the grief!, 4/18 Do You Need Advanced Open Water Certification?, 3/18 Woman Divers – Have You Had a “Me Too” Moment? We Need Your Thoughts, 3/18 Liveaboard Trip Canceled 24 Hours before Departure, and it’s a struggle to get fair compensation, 3/18 WAOW Liveaboard a Total Loss, 2/18 Diviac Goes to PADI, 2/18 Will the Sport of Scuba Diving Survive?, 1/18 You’ll Need More Than That to Get Me to Visit, 1/18 Misfortune Follows the Siren Fleet, is there something inherently wrong?, 1/18 A Taste of New Products at DEMA 2017, 1/18 Plastic is Suffocating the Ocean, and the dive industry must share the blame, 1/18

Diving Insurance, Legal, & Disputes

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Guadalupe Island Closing Cost Big Money , for liveaboard operators and some customers, 8/23 The Deadly MY Hurricane Fire, yet another liveaboard tragedy, 8/23 Carlton Queen Capsizes in the Red Sea, what happened next, 7/23 Legal Remedies for Overseas Injuries Unlikely, 7/23 Will Insurance Issues put Caribbean Dive Operators Out of Business?, 5/23 A Unique and Serious Injury at Ramon's in Belize , a tough fight for compensation in another country, 5/23 Full-face Snorkeling Mask Implicated Again, 5/23 Punishment Abroad for Training Deaths, but it will never happen here, 4/23 Insurance and the Traveling Diver: Part II, getting the right policy and making it pay, 4/23 Free Diver Pipin Sues Netflix for Defamation, 4/23 Insurance and the Traveling Diver; Part I, readers tell of woes and triumphs, 3/23 Thieves? Maybe, and We Need More Like Them, 3/23 Insurance Claim Denied, But I'm a New Person, 3/23 Mexico Closes Down Great White Shark Cage Diving , and there are questions why, 2/23 Another Georgia Dive Instructor Guilty, 1/23 Malta Dive Accident Ruled Involuntary Homicide, CCR and traditional SCUBA do not mix, 1/23 Anyone Can Get Bent, So Get Insured, 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 Georgia Dive Store Operators Guilty of Bilking the Veteran’s Administration, 10/22 Lack of Progress in Implementing Conception Safety Recommendations, 10/22 Feds Target Companies Involved in U.S. Shark Fin Trade, 10/22 Fishermen versus Divers Comes to a Head in Florida, charged with a felony for freeing fish, 10/22 Diving Instructor Arrested, 10/22 Advanced Diver, Really?, 9/22 Diving Accident Stats are "Inaccurate ... Manipulated ... Misrepresented", 8/22 The Perils of Travel Remain in the Time of COVID, a cautionary tale of our times, 8/22 PADI Responds to Cancun Diver Fatalities, 8/22 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 Dolphins versus Divers in War, 6/22 Tough Punishment for an Unauthorized Dive Boat Buoy Line, 6/22 Scuba Scene – Another Liveaboard Burns, with conflicting perceptions of the aftermath, 6/22 Russian Scuba Embargos, 4/22 Dive/Travel Insurance Woes?, 4/22 Big and Unnecessary Disappointments, the Solmar V leaves passengers with nowhere to go, 4/22 U.S. Dive Boat Owner’s Liability Might Increase, 11/21 The Ugly American Unmasked, on divers respecting and protecting others, 11/21 It’s Not OK to Sell Dive Gear to Libya, rebreather expert in trouble again, 11/21 American Gold Salvors Spared Criminal Action, 11/21 Wearing Fins on Deck Proves Fatal , and the British boat captain is found liable, 10/21 Coast Guard Sued by 34 Families , legal action from The Conception dive boat disaster victims, 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 Diver and Instructor Fitness, 5/20 Tough Times in the Dive Travel Industry, resort and boat owners to tell us how they are managing, 5/20 Plenty of Tales of Woe Among Traveling Divers, Paid for a trip? Don’t set your heart on a refund, 5/20 Airline Ticket Refunds; It’s the Law!, 5/20 Diving, Travel, Coronavirus, Chaos, What’s happening to the traveling diver and our destinations?, 4/20 Nautilus Liveaboards Gets Flack and Responds Well, 4/20 Refunds on Flight Tickets?, 4/20 Why You Need Medical Evacuation Insurance, 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 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 Your Dive Boat Sinks Before You Get There, and DAN’s Elite Travel Policy does not cover it, 11/19 Parents Sue PADI over the Death of Their 13-Year-Old Son, 11/19 Farewell to a Top Treasure Hunter, 8/19 Diving in Cuba is Harder for Americans, 7/19 Bahamas Master Cancels On Diver Twice In Two Years, 7/19 A Huge Great White Shark Controversy, what’s the difference between advocacy and self-promotion?, 2/19 Discover Scuba Diving Is Deadly, two more fatalities - one being a 13-year-old boy, 2/19 Another Good Story about that Epic Thai Cave Dive Rescue, 1/19 Sinister Circumstances Surround this Diver’s Death, 11/18 How Did This Diver’s Wife Die?, the computer and scuba gear make the husband look guilty as sin, 11/18 Pirates of Papua New Guinea, 10/18 When It Comes to Diving, Don’t Trust the BBC, 10/18 Was There a Cover-Up in This Diver’s Death?, many questions about search-and-rescue efforts for Rob Stewart, 10/18 How Did the Maker of Sharkwater Die?, 8/18 Oman Aggressor Continues to Cancel Trips, 6/18 Unvarnished Truth Can Hurt But It’s Still the Truth, 6/18 “MeToo” in the Dive Industry, it’s still more like being the “Second Sex” for many women divers, 5/18 Suunto/Aqualung Computer Lawsuit Continues, 4/18 When Diving Disappoints, and big animals are a no-show, 4/18 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 If Attacked, You’re Not Just a Shark Attack Statistic!, 3/18 Did Your Travel Insurance Cough Up When Required?, or should you forgo paying those stiff premiums?, 3/18 Liability Waivers and the Dive Professional, top lawyers give an insight into the legalities, 3/18 Liveaboard Trip Canceled 24 Hours before Departure, and it’s a struggle to get fair compensation, 3/18 Get Bent and Who is at Fault?, 2/18 Legal Protection for Fish?, 2/18

Diving Financial

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Is Wetpixel Breaking Bad?, the slippery slope toward fraud?, 9/23 Guadalupe Island Closing Cost Big Money , for liveaboard operators and some customers, 8/23 Lend A Hand On Your Next Dive Vacation: Part II, save the reefs, maybe save on taxes, 7/23 Volunteering for Maldives Whale Shark Research, 7/23 Flotsam & Jetsam, 5/23 Lend A Hand on Your Next Dive Vacation: Part I, save the reefs, maybe save on taxes, 4/23 Those Damn Fuel Surcharges, and not much we can do about it, 3/23 PADI Pays Up After a Training Death, It's settled, but expect no public insight about PADI, 3/23 How Not to Lose $95 in a Bonaire Tourist Tax Scam , 2/23 Conception Deaths Spark New Owner Liability Law, 1/23 Dive/Travel Insurance Woes?, 4/22 U.S. Dive Boat Owner’s Liability Might Increase, 11/21 Did COVID-19 Cost You Money in Lost Reservations? , dive businesses keep money with the weakest excuses, 10/21 The Wonderful Thing About Gold as Discovered by Mel Fisher, 9/21 The Risk of Selling Second-hand Dive Gear, 7/21 Available to the Public Bigger Fish Suffer More from Climate Change, 5/20 Coronavirus – Will it Affect Your Dive Travel Plans?, some thoughts to help you decide whether to embark, 3/20 The Etiquette of Tipping on Dive Trips: Part II, are Americans just good tippers or total suckers?, 11/19 Bringing Underwater Camera Gear to Dive in Mexico?, it just may cost you, 10/19 The Dive Trip Tipping Conundrum: Part I, is there an etiquette?, 9/19 PADI Buys America’s Two Biggest Dive Magazines, 7/19 Why Does Explorer Ventures Still Have a Fuel Surcharge?, 6/19 Helium Is Now Harder to Get, 6/19 Fly for Free to Your Dive Destination, how to play the credit card points game, 5/19 Why You Had Better Confirm Your Flight Itinerary, 4/19 Tulsa Diver Bent in Cozumel Gets Insurance Shock, 7/18 So Who Owns PADI?, 4/18

Diving Miscellaneous

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Divers of a Certain Age: Part I, The Freedom to Dive, 9/23 Miss a Connection and Arrive Four Days Later, 8/23 Avatars' Actors' Amazing Breath Holding Skills, 1/23 Rude Divers Can Ruin Trips (Part II), it's all about competitiveness, 10/22 Electronically Tagging Your Dive Bag so You’ll Know Where it Is, 10/22 Underwater Texting?, 10/22 Going Deeper than Ever, 9/22 Rude Divers Can Ruin Trips, thankfully, they are few and far between, 9/22 Keeping An Important Discovery Secret, 8/22 Amos Nachoum Authors a BIG Book And It’s a Must for Your Coffee Table, 7/22 The Bicycle Thief, 4/22 Inept Buoyancy Control, 3/22 The Boy in October Sky Became a Man Who Taught Astronauts to Dive, 11/21 Antigua’s English Harbor Reveals Historic Shipwreck, 9/21   Available to the Public Movies for Divers Stuck at Home, 4/20 Diving and Politeness: Be Patient and Take Your Place in Line, 2/20 The Tragic Tale of the Conception Fire, the cause remains unknown, 10/19 Letters to the Editor, 9/19 Even Royal Family Members Are Dive Fatalities, 5/19 Getting To and Around Baja California, 2/19 What Is Undercurrent’s “Caribbean Scale?”, 2/19 Save Money on Baggage. Fees: Pack with a Purpose, 1/19 Confused about Lithium Batteries?, 1/19 The Craziest Things You’ve Seen on Dives, poop, sex toys and, of course, crazy divers, 11/18 Underwater Statues Are Unwelcome in the Maldives, 11/18 Who Are You Calling Rude?, our readers sound off on the most offensive divers, 10/18 An Interesting Way to Off-Gas in Bonaire, 8/18 Less of an Achievement than a Moon Walk, 3/18 It’s a Dog’s Life!, 1/18

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