Diving for Artificial Reefs
DIVER SURVEYS OF ARTIFICIAL REEF MARIND LIFE contribute to science — the FWC has adopted the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) citizen science program for doing fish surveys.
Alert Diver Category: Dive Slate
Diving and Dying for Lobster
MY SON AND I HAVE TREATED HUNDREDS of divers, mostly Honduran lobster fishery workers who suffer some degree of paralysis from DCS, the majority from the waist down and many over most of their body.
Physioshark Team Studies Climate Change Impacts on Sharks
FOR 450 MILLION YEARS some shark species have been apex predators in the aquatic world, helping to balance the fathomless yet fragile marine ecosystem. But even with all their instinctual knowledge we see more and more species on our endangered lists.
A Life Aquatic: Stan Waterman
EVEN THOUGH I WAS A photojournalist for Skin Diver magazine for 17 years, one of the covers I most remember was not one I shot but a portrait of Stan […]
SS Manasoo
NORTH AMERICA’S GREAT LAKES have long provided a natural transportation corridor to the continent’s interior. The Anishinaabe people — the region’s original inhabitants — utilized the Great Lakes for trade, […]
Leopard Seal
EVERY PHOTOGRAPHER HAS A DREAM SHOT. For a long time mine was to see a particular natural predation: a leopard seal hunting a penguin in Antarctica. When I traveled to […]
Bring A Buddy to DAN
LOOKING AFTER OTHER DIVERS is part of being a responsible diver, so make sure your friends, family members, and dive buddies have DAN. Now when you refer someone who becomes […]
Recruiting for DAN Research
DAN RESEARCH IS CONTINUALLY LOOKING for divers, researchers, and health care professionals to volunteer to support our work. Depending on your availability and location, you might qualify as a diver […]
Renting Dive Gear
IMAGINE RENTING A CAR, NAVIGATING TRAFFIC ON UNFAMILIAR ROADS, and then finding yourself in a heavy rainstorm — only to realize you don’t know how to operate the windshield wipers. […]
Larry Brown
A READER RECENTLY BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION that over the years multiple Alert Diver contributors have credited a particular dive instructor with providing training that saved their lives. Upon researching […]