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PADI Buys America’s Two Biggest Dive MagazinesContents of this Issue: 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” Editorial Office: Ben Davison Publisher and Editor Undercurrent 3020 Bridgeway, Suite 102 Sausalito, CA 94965 from the July, 2019 issue of Undercurrent
Subscriber Content Preview 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.... Subscribers: Read the full article here ; |
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