Best Practices for Disinfecting Dive Equipment

By Francois Burman, Pr.Eng, MSc

Q4 2023

AFTER THE INITAL SCARE AND LOCKDOWNS FROM COVID-19, divers soon started to explore ways to safely get back into the water. Disinfection has always been a consideration in diving, but […]

Geri Murphy

Text by Stephen Frink | photos and captions by Geri Murphy

Q4 2023

BEFORE THE INTERNET WAS AVAILABLE, people read print magazines to learn about scuba diving — how to do it, what gear to buy, and where to go. For 51 years, […]

Recovering Color in Underwater Photography

By Logan Wood

Q4 2023

IMAGINE SCROLLING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA posts or flipping through your favorite dive magazine. Your eye catches a photo of the most pristine waters you have seen. The sun is peeking […]

Blame the Ballast

By Sarah Egner

Q4 2023

MARITIME TRANSPORT HAS MORE TO DO WITH CORAL DISEASE than you might think. Just like most animals, corals can get diseases. Researchers first recognized coral disease in the early 1970s. […]

Freediving Fins Reinvented

By Mark Laboccetta

Q4 2023

IN THE 1900s UMBERTO PELIZZARI was a young diver from Busto Arsizio, Italy, who was making headlines by breaking world records in constant weight and variable weight freediving. Needing an […]

More Than Colorful Coral

Text and photos by Peter Schopfer

Q3 2023

I’M ALWAYS AMAZED at what people will do for love. My girlfriend, who is terrified of the ocean, announced that she wanted to learn to dive and then accompany me […]

Salmon Run

By Franco Banfi; Photos taken under permit of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, British Columbia Parks

Q4 2023

IN THE ADAMS RIVER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, huge flows of sockeye salmon swim upstream to complete their life cycle, marked by the compelling need to return to their birthplace to […]

SPONSORED: Philippines Aggressor II Scuba Adventures Begin April 2024

Augusta, Georgia —The new Philippines Aggressor II™ is an elegant 26-passenger liveaboard dive yacht offering seven-, ten-, and eleven-night all-inclusive excursions exploring the amazing reefs and atolls of the Visayan […]

SPONSORED: Aggressor Adventures & SSI Partner to Raise Funds for Conservation

Aggressor Adventures and SSI have partnered to raise funds for the Sea of Change Foundation with an incredible adventure-themed, online auction open for bidding and monetary pledges from October 16, 2023 to November 18, 2023.