Alert Diver Issue: Q3 2023

Renting Dive Gear

August 28, 2023

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. […]

Japan’s Little Fish with a Big Heart

November 20, 2023  Text and photos by Ned and Anna DeLoach

MANY JAPANESE DIVERS LOVE UNDERSEA CREATURES, particularly the home-grown varieties living in abundance along the country’s craggy volcanic coastlines and offshore islands. They also have an infatuation for the eccentric […]

JAPANESE DIVERS LOVE pufferfish nests, crop-circle-like sand structure pufferfish love nests, Torquigener albomaculosus, 6-foot egg nest, Amami Ōshima, UNESCO’s World Heritage List Alert Diver magazine Q4 2023

The Hamlet Dilemma

August 28, 2023  Text and photos by Ned and Anna DeLoach

SINCE THE LATE 1800S, debate among marine taxonomists has swirled around the species status of the stately little Caribbean sea basses in genus Hypoplectrus, commonly known as hamlets. At the […]

Slow and Relaxed with Good Technique

November 20, 2023  Text by Dawn Kernagis; photos by Jill Heinerth

MY DIVE BUDDY AND I planned to do a longer than usual dive one Saturday morning at Madison Blue Spring State Park in Lee, Florida. For several years and more […]

safe cave diving skills, keep calm during every cave dive, system of redundancy for every piece of critical equipment, including regulators, tanks, and lights, cave diving proper line management, touch communication in cave diving, dive buddy, underwater cave dive partner, two backup lights for cave diving, skills for emergency diving situations, dive plan for cave diving, backup lights for safe cave diving, cave system in northern Florida, dive plan, Alert Diver magazine Q4 2023Alert Diver magazine Q4 2023

Yoga Fitness for Scuba Diving

August 28, 2023  Text by Jessica B. Adams, PhD, and Tara Bogota; photos by Stephen Frink

YOGA KEEPS YOU YOUNG, at least from a physiological perspective. Regular yoga practice can counter the effects of aging by regularly moving joints through a full range of motion, improving […]

San Diego

August 28, 2023  Text by Allison Vitsky Sallmon; photos by Andy Sallmon and Allison Vitsky Sallmon

WHEN I MOVED TO SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, from New England in January 2007, I knew next to nothing about the area. As I made my way across the country, I […]