Dive Boat Safety

WHETHER YOU’VE BEEN DIVING from boats for years or you’re looking forward to your first liveaboard trip, it’s an excellent time to refresh your knowledge about staying safe on board and evaluating your dive operator’s safety preparedness.

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 […]

leopard seal

Benefits of Group Travel

Planning group travel through a local dive shop can help prevent people from taking advantage of you, because the dive shop has likely researched the vendors they use and may already have experience with them.

Stephen Frink Digital Master Class, Key Largo, Florida Keys

Pete Murray

When Pete Murray was 12 years old, Master Chief Petty Officer Williams at the Orlando Naval Base approached him and asked if he was “Murray’s kid,” referring to Major Daniel Murray.

Pete Murray

SOS Hyperlite 1 Hyperbaric Chamber Demonstration

DAN Mission teams recently participated in a demonstration led by James Dalebozik, a hyperbaric chamber technician, on the operation and application of the SOS Hyperlite 1 portable hyperbaric chamber.

Hyperbaric Chamber Demonstration

Sex Lives of Rock Stars

Ken Nedimyer calls them his “rock stars.” The veteran scientist and technical director for Reef Renewal USA coined the nickname in 2023 after making welfare checks on a coral nursery off Key Largo, Florida.

Ashley Elliot of Reef Renewal USA observes coral bundles.

A New Mission

Force Blue involves highly skilled military veterans in marine conservation efforts. The veterans work with marine scientists on initiatives including invasive species (lionfish) removal.

Two divers extract invasive lionfish