Diving Environment & Miscellanous Articles

Marine Environment

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Ahhh, A Massive Turtle Rescue, 5/25 Saving Raja Ampat, 5/25 Up Your Nose, 3/25 Fighting SCTLD with Cocoa Butter and Chlorine, 2/25 An Orca Grieves Her Lost Calf, 2/25 Parrotfish Are Essential to the Health of Coral Reefs, 1/25 The End of Coral Reef Diving?, 11/24 The Lionfish Problem is Getting Worse , 10/24 Discarded Oil Platforms Increase Ocean Fish Populations , 10/24 Bonaire's Reefs This Summer, 9/24 Neoprene Is Nasty, we don't have to use it, 9/24 The Oceans are Getting Starved of Oxygen, 8/24 Sleeping with the Fishes, 6/24 Under the Volcano, 6/24 Climate Changed has Damaged Reefs for Decades, when we said so, some divers kissed us goodbye, 6/24 Beyond the Brink of the Fourth Mass Coral Bleaching, 6/24 Microplastics in the Ocean? It's Your Car Tires, 4/24 Florida Fish Spinning in Circles, 4/24 Changing Weather Patterns, and how they affect your travels, 4/24 Oil Slick Reaches Bonaire, 3/24 Bonaire, Belize, Rangiroa, Fiji, Indonesia, dying coral, schools of sharks, super photography course, 3/24 In California, Bring Hammers on Your Dive, 3/24 Recycle Your Old Wetsuits, 3/24 Texas Coral Reefs - Among the Healthiest in the World?, 2/24 Caribbean Sea-urchin Die-off, 2/24 Pointer Sticks - Something You Should Do Without?, 2/24 King Crabs to Rescue Florida's Reefs?, 11/23 The Case of the Disappearing Great White Sharks, 10/23 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   Available to the Public 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 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

Marine Life

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all What's In Belize's Blue Hole, 5/25 Ahhh, A Massive Turtle Rescue, 5/25 Shark Attack in Israel, 5/25 Manatee Guardians Fired, 3/25 Up Your Nose, 3/25 Record Male Great White Spotted off Florida, 3/25 Fighting SCTLD with Cocoa Butter and Chlorine, 2/25 Fifteen Years Ago Cocos Island Swarmed with Turtles. Why Have Many Disappeared? , 2/25 An Orca Grieves Her Lost Calf, 2/25 Parrotfish Are Essential to the Health of Coral Reefs, 1/25 Discovered - The World's Largest Coral, 1/25 The End of Coral Reef Diving?, 11/24 The Lionfish Problem is Getting Worse , 10/24 Discarded Oil Platforms Increase Ocean Fish Populations , 10/24 The Intelligent Leadership of the Pugnacious Octopus , 10/24 Cayman Reef Sharks , some stay home, others roam the islands, 10/24 Aqua Trek, Ring Gold, Fiji, home stays with big sharks, beautiful reefs, great people, 8/24 The Oceans are Getting Starved of Oxygen, 8/24 Discarded Oil Platforms Increase Ocean Fish Populations, 8/24 Sharks on Drugs, 8/24 Another Bad Accident Waiting to Happen?, tiger sharks are not pussy cats, 7/24 Sleeping with the Fishes, 6/24 Climate Changed has Damaged Reefs for Decades, when we said so, some divers kissed us goodbye, 6/24 Beyond the Brink of the Fourth Mass Coral Bleaching, 6/24 Mandarinfish at Lighthouse Reef, 4/24 Florida Fish Spinning in Circles, 4/24 Playing with Sea Lions, 3/24 In California, Bring Hammers on Your Dive, 3/24 Texas Coral Reefs - Among the Healthiest in the World?, 2/24 Caribbean Sea-urchin Die-off, 2/24 Great News for Florida Turtles, 1/24 Great Diving While Saving Fish, 11/23 REEF, 11/23 King Crabs to Rescue Florida's Reefs?, 11/23 A Journey to the Depths of the Ocean, 11/23 The Case of the Disappearing Great White Sharks, 10/23 Whalefall, a Diver's Novel Like No Other, 10/23 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   Available to the Public 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 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

Dive Industry

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Badges Can Be Misleading, 5/25 The Tragedy of the Liveaboard Industry, it must adopt a robust safety culture, 5/25 The Call for Regulation of Liveaboards , but who or what can regulate?, 5/25 Thailand Bans Cameras for New Divers, 5/25 Tariffs and Scuba Gear , and a tip on your border crossings, 5/25 Last Breath - a Dramatic Diving Story, 3/25 Where a Border Wall is Really Needed, 2/25 52 Assignments - Underwater Photography by Alex Mustard, 1/25 The Diver & The Cook, Fascinating Nonfiction, 11/24 DEMA Working Hard To Pass The Dive Boat Act, 11/24 An Ill-Fated Cruise , when divemaster are experts and divers are idiots, 10/24 Undercurrent Is More Than This Newsletter, 9/24 Treasures, Shipwrecks, and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving -- Howard Rosenstein, 8/24 Discarded Oil Platforms Increase Ocean Fish Populations, 8/24 Independent Readers' Reports, 7/24 Copyright Issues, 7/24 Having Fun with Artificial Intelligence , and teaching it about scuba, 7/24 Another Bad Accident Waiting to Happen?, tiger sharks are not pussy cats, 7/24 Which Is The Best Dive Training Agency in 2024?, 6/24 DAN Insurance: Age is no Barrier, 6/24 Passengers Board, but this Aggressor Doesn't Sail, 4/24 How Should We Tip the Dive Crew? , whatever makes you comfortable, 4/24 Medical Examiner's Evaluation Form, 4/24 Remembering Paul Humann, 3/24 Independent Reader's Reports Are Invaluable, 3/24 The 2024 Travelin' Diver's Chapbook is in Print!, 3/24 Tipping for Divers; Part 1, will we learn from the Europeans?, 3/24 Coloring My World, 2/24 The Ocean Art 2023 Competition, 2/24 Pity the Poor PADI Professional, does the training agency charge too much?, 2/24 The 2023 New Orleans DEMA Show, an industry in recovery mode, 1/24 The Adventures of Gilliam and Garth, a remembrance of a great friend, 1/24 Great Diving While Saving Fish, 11/23 REEF, 11/23 Our Subscribers Depend Upon Your Reports, 11/23 Divers of a Certain Age , get your insurance and paperwork in order, 11/23 Conception Captain Found Guilty, in Southern California liveaboard fire that killed 34, 11/23 Diving Participation Rebounds Post-COVID, 10/23 Bret Gilliam Has Passed, 10/23 A PADI 5-Star Center Takes Issue, 10/23 Clarifications to Our September Wetpixel Story, from Adam Hanlon and Dr. Alex Mustard, 10/23 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   Available to the Public 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 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

Diving Insurance, Legal, & Disputes

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Where a Border Wall is Really Needed, 2/25 Held Hostage Until Signing a Liability Waiver , the BBC tells the whole story, 2/25 Unqualified Red Sea Liveaboard Crews, 2/25 Could This Happen in America?, 2/25 The Red Sea Sea Story Liveaboard Disaster, there's more to the story, 1/25 DEMA Working Hard To Pass The Dive Boat Act, 11/24 Florida Scuba Charter Skipper Indicted for Manslaughter , 10/24 Now, Cancun Has the Customs Banditos, 8/24 Boylan Ordered to Pay Minimal Restitution, 8/24 Copyright Issues, 7/24 The Mysterious Disappearance of Grand Cayman Scuba Tanks, 6/24 DAN Insurance: Age is no Barrier, 6/24 Should I Insure Old Scuba Gear? , 3/24 DAN Accident Insurance, 1/24 Conception Captain Found Guilty, in Southern California liveaboard fire that killed 34, 11/23 Conception Fire Appears To Have Started in a Plastic Trash Can, 11/23 Clarifications to Our September Wetpixel Story, from Adam Hanlon and Dr. Alex Mustard, 10/23 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 Available to the Public 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 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

Diving Financial

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Tariffs and Scuba Gear , and a tip on your border crossings, 5/25 Unqualified Red Sea Liveaboard Crews, 2/25 Getty Has Not Requested My Images, 1/25 Investing in Digital Camera and Expensive Strobes?, 11/24 Now, Cancun Has the Customs Banditos, 8/24 Selling Used Gear/Underwater Photo Classes - New Undercurrent Blogs, 8/24 Customs Banditos, 7/24 Passengers Board, but this Aggressor Doesn't Sail, 4/24 How Should We Tip the Dive Crew? , whatever makes you comfortable, 4/24 Pity the Poor PADI Professional, does the training agency charge too much?, 2/24 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   Available to the Public 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 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

Diving Miscellaneous

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all What's In Belize's Blue Hole, 5/25 Manatee Guardians Fired, 3/25 How Not to Become an Iron Diver, 3/25 Never Know What You'll Find On A Leisurely Dive, In Hong Kong, it was a live 500-pound Japanese bomb, 1/25 Sharks on Drugs, 8/24 For Americans Traveling to Cuba, 1/24 118 Countries and More to Come, 1/24 A Journey to the Depths of the Ocean, 11/23 Snorkeling in the Slime of a Welsh Bog, 10/23 Whalefall, a Diver's Novel Like No Other, 10/23 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     Available to the Public 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 Movies for Divers Stuck at Home, 4/20 Diving and Politeness: Be Patient and Take Your Place in Line, 2/20

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