A Rising Tide

[…] Denver Downtown Aquarium, A-1 Scuba and Travel Aquatics Center, and Sea Dwellers Dive Center of Key Largo. Watch the episodes at arisingtide.tv. © Alert Diver — Q3 2018 Six students in dive gear, […]

A group of high school students pose with several adults. Mountains are in the background.

Red Sea Photo Safari

[…] I was just getting started as a dive photojournalist, working from my home base in Key Largo, Florida. The dive magazines of the day were happy to assign me articles on […]

Synchronized Spawning

[…] Keys. Akins has witnessed giant barrel sponges spawning during the day on Elbow Reef off Key Largo. “They look like volcanoes spewing a fine white smoke,” he said. “When one starts, […]

Several brittle sea stars congregate on a sponge to spawn

Pioneers of Dive Safety

[…] other two people in the dive community. DAN President Dan Orr at Aquarius Reef Base, Key Largo, Fla. Each year the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) announces the winners of […]

Two men stand next to a hyperbaric chamber

The Depth of the Matter

[…] a signaling device after dark. A scuba diver explores one of the deeper wrecks off Key Largo, the USCGC Duane. Resting perfectly upright in 125 feet of water, she offers an […]

Diver peers through a metal structure on a sponge-encrusted shipwreck

Shooter: Ned DeLoach

[…] summer we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our first fish count, which took place in Key Largo. Since its beginnings the organization has branched out, taking the lead in studying the […]

Two Blackfin coralgobies are actually yellow. One is quite larger than the other

DAN Member Profile: Stephanie Arne

[…] to work as a dive guide and whale-shark spotter in Australia. Swimming with porkfish in Key Largo Doing educational presentations on the boats was different because I could teach people about […]

Stephanie Arne Headshot in water

Pete Murray

[…] guides Gabe Spataro, who is visually impaired, to the Christ of the Abyss statue off Key Largo, Florida. Spataro was responsible for sending the statue to the Keys. © Jim Elliot […]

Pete Murray

Mission 31: An Aquanaut’s Journey

[…] saturation at 63 feet. The Aquarius Habitat Located some nine miles off the coast of Key Largo, Fla., in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Aquarius is a complex underwater structure […]

A suave-looking man peers out of an underwater portal

Misool Foundation

[…] all made sense. I have dived marine protected areas (MPAs) off my home waters in Key Largo, Florida, for more than four decades and have learned that fish behave differently if […]

A drone’s view of Batbitim Island and the surrounding waters of Misool