A Case for the 220-Volt Power Strip
While stuck in traffic in Bali, our group of 20 divers spied a local electronics store.
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Exiting the Water
Diving requires proper planning and equipment maintenance, including your body. In the final minutes of a dive, a tired diver must swim to the boat, climb a ladder, and haul gear onto the deck.
Someone Looking Back
At first she is almost nothing: a slight distortion in the reef, a suggestion of movement where the reef should be still.
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Puget Sound
Spectral light dances on the water from across Puget Sound as the Seattle skyline glitters on the horizon.
Before an Incident Happens
For more than 30 years DAN members have shared how DAN was there for them.
To Protect and Preserve
Our objective was to reconnoiter the riverbank for clues that might help us locate the remains of two schooners reported to have been burned and sunk on June 13, 1862, during Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s famous cavalry ride around Union Gen. George McClellan’s army.
Concerns of the Aging Diver
The average age of a scuba diver in the U.S. is 42, with a median age of about 36 to 40.
A Timeline of Decompression Stress
Most divers think about decompression STRESS primarily in terms of depth, bottom time, ascent rates, and safety stops.
Drysuit Buoyancy
The question of whether a diver should rely on a drysuit for buoyancy control or treat it primarily as thermal protection while managing buoyancy with a buoyancy compensator device (BCD) remains one of coldwater diving’s more practical and seemingly never-ending debates.
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