By John Christopher Fine PLEASE, please, please be more careful with plastic bags and Styrofoam cups. Do not let helium balloons loose. The photograph I took underwater on my last dive tells more than any article I write about plastic debris. PLEASE. You can do it. This comes from a person who uses plastic all … Read more
The scoop on the Cozumel Reef closure Dear Fellow Diver When we heard about Cozumel’s reef closure, one of our Undercurrent writers hurried down to get the full scoop. But, just before we were ready to go to press with our article, the closure ended. However, he wrote an important piece detailing the closure, it’s … Read more
Dive Like Royalty Aboard the Avalon II in Cuba’s Gardens of the Queen are these the Caribbean’s last pristine reefs? Dear Fellow Diver: After nearly a half hour, no luggage emerged onto the carousel at Havana, Cuba’s José Martí International Airport. I glanced at my watch. A woman standing next to me noticed and said, … Read more
“Thump!” “I felt the impact on my back, but I wasn’t sure which part of me was hit. I felt myself being carried through the water like a helpless ragdoll. I remember hoping I wasn’t losing too much blood although after the initial impact I felt no pain. It turned into a dreamlike sequence, an … Read more
I recently bought a GoPro camera and accessories and was dismayed at the amount of packaging I had to discard, much of it plastic. Even buying routine groceries, fruit and vegetables in plastic wrapping results in a full load of domestic garbage at the end of the week. Almost everything we now buy arrives wrapped … Read more
