Pennekamp Park: The Original and Still Going Strong

Pennekamp Park has logged nearly 30 million visitors in its 50-year existence. The park offers plenty of snorkeling and diving opportunities — and of course, fantastic reefs. Read more about diving Pennekamp Park.

Bikini-clad snorkeler approaches a sunken Jesus statue

SeaBase1

SeaBase1 is an underwater habitat expected to be in place in the waters of Belize in 2013. It will be a place where ecotourist divers, researchers and educators can congregate and learn. Read more about SeaBase1.

Artist rendering of SeaBase1. It took like a creature from a Dr. Who television show.

Nautilus Lifeline

The Nautilus Lifeline is a revolutionary new safety product that offers divers the ability to send a GPS-specific distress signal to nearby and responding boats. Read more about the Nautilus Lifeline.

Female diver holds signaling device and is also waving down a boat

Biorock: Electric Reefs

Biorock reefs are submerged, metal dome structures used to grow corals and restore degraded reef habitats. Used in 20 countries, they are wired to onshore energy sources so low-voltage current and flow through the structure. Read more about this nifty process and the importance of Biorock reefs.

Female diver approaches a metal dome structure where corals are growing happily

Eurydice: A William & Mary Theatrical Production

In 2010, a group of students and professors at The College of William & Mary created a splash when they turned the sterile blue of their college pool into the underworld of an ancient Greek myth. Read more about this underwater play.

Submerged, a red-haired actress stares at a black-haired man

DAN Member Profile: Sylvia Earle

DAN member Dr. Sylvia Earle is a big advocate for the ocean environment. She’s spearheaded more than 100 scientific explorations and has spent more than 7,000 hours underwater.

Sylvia Earle approaches a reef

A Beautiful Invasion

Populations of Banggai cardinalfish have plummeted in recent years because of market demand. However, they are slowly rebounding. Read more about the Banggai cardinalfish.

A Banggai cardinalfish stares at the camera

Pool Exercises

You can do so much more at a pool than simply swim laps! Designed to improve your muscular endurance and increasing your dive stamina. this pool workout will provide a great challenge. Read more about these pool exercises.

Woman is in a pool with hands on deck but legs submerged. Her legs are extended fully in front of her.

San Diego, California

San Diego, Calif. is not just home to great beaches and beach towns — it also offers diverse dive opportunities from shipwrecks to animal encounters. Read more about diving in San Diego.

Diver distantly looks at a sponge-encrusted shipwreck