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Isla Marisol, Glover’s Reef, Belize 
Undercurrent Gets Grant for Coverage of Environmental Issues and Advocacy
Divers Find the Last Slave Ship
Raja Ampat, Bonaire, Maldives, Cozumel . . .
After Drifting for Eight Hours, “I’m Just Glad I’m Alive
Are Great Whites the Ocean’s Most Fearsome Predators? New Findings Say No
Can You Handle A Crisis Underwater? 
You Tell Us: Are You Prepared As You Should Be on a Dive?
PADI Buys America’s Two Biggest Dive Magazines
Dump Valves, Customs Scams, Suunto Lawsuit
Killed by Sharks While Snorkeling with Pigs 
Diving in Cuba is Harder for Americans
Want to Buy a Dive Center or Liveaboard?
Bahamas Master Cancels On Diver Twice In Two Years
Why You May Be Experiencing “Oxygen Ear”
Flotsam & Jetsam
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More than 40 years ago, PADI was a nonprofit corporation,
until the founders, in what surely seemed to
be self-dealing, set up a for-profit corporation and sold
it to themselves.
Since then, PADI has expanded and expanded, been
sold time and again, and is now owned by a consortium
of wealthy families and endowments in North
American and Europe. During the process, it has gained
wider and wider control, and now dominates the diving
market, making it difficult for non-PADI organizations
to compete. And now, things will get harder....
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