Gaming Introduced Me to a New World 

Text by Caden Everhart; photos by Angela McGhee

Q3 2024

I’m 14 years old and a newly certified scuba diver. I’ve heard that many years ago divers got certified because of Jacques Cousteau or an old TV show called Sea Hunt, but those were way before my time.

Smalltooth Sawfish

By Grace Pempek

Q3 2024

Smalltooth sawfish are critically endangered, making them exceedingly rare to encounter on dives in Florida. Some scientists believe sawfish face the greatest extinction risk of any family of marine animals.

[SPONSORED] Aggressor Adventures to Celebrate Milestone With 350,000th Guest

Aggressor Adventures® will welcome its 350,000th guest aboard one of its luxury, adventure vacations who will be awarded prizes valued at more than $11,000 in 2024. Aggressor began in 1984 with […]

[SPONSORED] Yap Gets the Cover in X-Ray Mag

Yap, FSM – July 29, 2024 – Yap is the cover story and has a 21-page colorful spread in the August 2024 edition of X-Ray Mag, the world’s largest digital […]

Malpelo

Text and photos by Brandon Cole

Q2 2024

Most fans of big animal action are familiar with the legendary Galápagos, Cocos, and Socorro dive destinations. All are remote and remarkable. Far fewer people know of — let alone have dived — another open-ocean oasis in the eastern tropical Pacific region: Isla Malpelo. 

YAP

Text and photos by Mike Bartick

Q2 2024

Shallow coral heads are on both sides of the M’il Channel opening as we slow down to locate our mooring ball. The incoming tide brings clean, blue water into the lagoon, creating opportunities for encounters with one of Yap’s main attractions just a few feet below the surface.

Misool Foundation

By Stephen Frink

Q2 2024

The spectacular ecosystem of Indonesia’s Raja Ampat offers ample opportunities for fish portraits and macro shots with a 100mm lens, but the broad expanses of pristine hard corals punctuated with colorful soft corals and sea fans made it difficult for me to forego using my wide-angle lens during a recent liveaboard trip.

Advanced Underwater Navigation

Text by Kyle Kray; Photos by Stephen Frink

Q2 2024

Most divers’ love of the sport stems from a drive to explore a foreign environment. With exploration must come the ability to navigate. Nowhere else on Earth can one become more lost than in a liquid, while simultaneously requiring constant individual concentration on safety techniques, breathing gas, buoyancy, horizontal trim, depth, and time.

Pieter-Jan van Ooij

By Madeline Coombs and Frauke Tillmans, PhD

Q2 2024

Pieter-Jan van Ooij, MD, PhD, is the head of the Department of Research, Innovation, and Education at the Royal Netherlands Navy’s Diving Medical Centre (DMC).