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Diving Environment & Miscellanous Articles
Environmental and miscellaneous diving-related articles from the last 5 years' issues of Undercurrent.
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Most articles from 2023 and on are only available in full to Online Members.
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Marine Environment
For Undercurrent Online
Members, articles with are available to all
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Parrotfish Are Essential to the Health of Coral Reefs, 1/25 |
The End of Coral Reef Diving?, 11/24 |
The Lionfish Problem is Getting Worse, 10/24 |
Discarded Oil Platforms Increase Ocean Fish Populations, 10/24 |
Bonaire's Reefs This Summer, 9/24 |
Neoprene Is Nasty, we don't have to use it, 9/24 |
The Oceans are Getting Starved of Oxygen, 8/24 |
Sleeping with the Fishes, 6/24 |
Under the Volcano, 6/24 |
Climate Changed has Damaged Reefs for Decades, when we said so, some divers kissed us goodbye, 6/24 |
Beyond the Brink of the Fourth Mass Coral Bleaching, 6/24 |
Microplastics in the Ocean? It's Your Car Tires, 4/24 |
Florida Fish Spinning in Circles, 4/24 |
Changing Weather Patterns, and how they affect your travels, 4/24 |
Oil Slick Reaches Bonaire, 3/24 |
Bonaire, Belize, Rangiroa, Fiji, Indonesia, dying coral, schools of sharks, super photography course, 3/24 |
In California, Bring Hammers on Your Dive, 3/24 |
Recycle Your Old Wetsuits, 3/24 |
Texas Coral Reefs - Among the Healthiest in the World?, 2/24 |
Caribbean Sea-urchin Die-off, 2/24 |
Pointer Sticks - Something You Should Do Without?, 2/24 |
King Crabs to Rescue Florida's Reefs?, 11/23 |
The Case of the Disappearing Great White Sharks, 10/23 |
Our Disappearing Reef Sharks, 9/23 |
When Good Intentions are Ill-founded, 7/23 |
Banning Fishing at Revillagigedo National Park Works, 7/23 |
Another Killer on Caribbean Reefs, 7/23 |
Cage Diving with Great White Sharks Coming to Nova Scotia? Maybe, 5/23 |
A New Dive Site? It's Garbage!, 5/23 |
Flotsam & Jetsam, 5/23 |
As Animals Confront Us, We Must Blame Ourselves, 4/23 |
Lend A Hand on Your Next Dive Vacation: Part I , save the reefs, maybe save on taxes, 4/23 |
Golden Tides Threaten Mexico's and Florida's Reefs and Beaches, 3/23 |
Ships May Be Fueling a Coral-Killing Epidemic , 2/23 |
Dave Crosby was a Serious Diver , 2/23 |
Decaying WWII Wrecks Threaten Coral Reefs, 1/23 |
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Who Can Save Dying Reefs? Fish!, 11/22 |
Climate Change is Eliminating Florida's Male Turtles, 11/22 |
Undercurrent Awarded Grant, 11/22 |
Fishermen versus Divers Comes to a Head in Florida, charged with a felony for freeing fish, 10/22 |
What Happens to Your Unwanted Neoprene Products?, 9/22 |
Mexico's Guadalupe Closed to Great White Diving, 9/22 |
Tire Wear Kills Fish, 9/22 |
Common Sunscreens Can Damage Marine Life (and You Too), 8/22 |
Dolphins a Casualty of War, 7/22 |
Lionfish Leather? Could It Be a Solution?, 7/22 |
Another Big Hurricane Season, 6/22 |
That Deadly Underwater Debris:, not only unsightly, but it’s a killer, 6/22 |
Pathogens in the Ocean?, 6/22 |
Caribbean Reefs Take a Further Battering, 6/22 |
Can Sharks Learn to Hunt Lionfish?, and why teaching them is not the best idea, 4/22 |
Ghost Fishing for the Birds, 4/22 |
Florida Goliath Grouper Protection Battle Lost, 3/22 |
Save a Reef? Weed it Like You’d Weed a Garden, 3/22 |
Yucatan Cenotes in Danger of Destruction, 3/22 |
The Lionfish’s Fear of Being Eaten, could the groupers’ appetite be crucial?, 3/22 |
Lego Reveals the Longevity of Plastic in the Ocean, 3/22 |
Rubbish Photography, 2/22 |
By-Product of a Pandemic, 2/22 |
Award Winning but Sad, 2/22 |
Starving Manatees Get Salad and a Warm Bath, 2/22 |
Cayman Stony Coral Disease, 1/22 |
The Goliath Grouper Needs Your Help by January 13th, 1/22 |
Award Winning Eel Shot, 1/22 |
Diving with a Grim Purpose, 1/22 |
Car Tires Discarded in the Ocean Trap Hermit Crabs Forever, 11/21 |
Galapagos Migratory Sharks Threatened by Giant Chinese Fishing Fleet, 10/21 |
Freak Needlefish Accident, 10/21 |
Insuring The Local Reef: Is this the Future of Conservation?, 9/21 |
Undercurrent is Saving Olive Ridley Turtles, 7/21 |
Good News about Saving America’s Reefs, 5/20 |
Shark-Free Fish ’n Chips, 5/20 |
Nature Takes Advantage of the Lockdown, 5/20 |
Undercurrent Readers’ Rescue Australian Wildlife from the Devastating Fires, 5/20 |
Good News for Coral in South Caicos, 4/20 |
Is that Aquarium Coral Farmed or Wild Coral? You Can’t Tell, 3/20 |
Goliath Groupers: Better in the Water than on the Plate, 3/20 |
The Ticking Time Bomb of War Wrecks, 2/20 |
Climate Change is Killing Clownfish, 1/20 |
The Rich Sounds of Healthy Reefs May Save Them, 1/20 |
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Marine Life
For Undercurrent Online
Members, articles with are available to all
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Parrotfish Are Essential to the Health of Coral Reefs, 1/25 |
Discovered - The World's Largest Coral, 1/25 |
The End of Coral Reef Diving?, 11/24 |
The Lionfish Problem is Getting Worse, 10/24 |
Discarded Oil Platforms Increase Ocean Fish Populations, 10/24 |
The Intelligent Leadership of the Pugnacious Octopus, 10/24 |
Cayman Reef Sharks, some stay home, others roam the islands, 10/24 |
Aqua Trek, Ring Gold, Fiji, home stays with big sharks, beautiful reefs, great people, 8/24 |
The Oceans are Getting Starved of Oxygen, 8/24 |
Discarded Oil Platforms Increase Ocean Fish Populations, 8/24 |
Sharks on Drugs, 8/24 |
Another Bad Accident Waiting to Happen?, tiger sharks are not pussy cats, 7/24 |
Sleeping with the Fishes, 6/24 |
Climate Changed has Damaged Reefs for Decades, when we said so, some divers kissed us goodbye, 6/24 |
Beyond the Brink of the Fourth Mass Coral Bleaching, 6/24 |
Mandarinfish at Lighthouse Reef, 4/24 |
Florida Fish Spinning in Circles, 4/24 |
Playing with Sea Lions, 3/24 |
In California, Bring Hammers on Your Dive, 3/24 |
Texas Coral Reefs - Among the Healthiest in the World?, 2/24 |
Caribbean Sea-urchin Die-off, 2/24 |
Great News for Florida Turtles, 1/24 |
Great Diving While Saving Fish, 11/23 |
REEF, 11/23 |
King Crabs to Rescue Florida's Reefs?, 11/23 |
A Journey to the Depths of the Ocean, 11/23 |
The Case of the Disappearing Great White Sharks, 10/23 |
Whalefall, a Diver's Novel Like No Other, 10/23 |
Our Disappearing Reef Sharks, 9/23 |
The Tricky Trumpetfish, 9/23 |
Underjungle: An Underwater Fantasy, 9/23 |
Visiting Dominica's Sperm Whales, 8/23 |
Be Wary of Drug-Crazed Sharks?, 8/23 |
When Good Intentions are Ill-founded, 7/23 |
Banning Fishing at Revillagigedo National Park Works, 7/23 |
Don't Snorkel with a Saltie, 7/23 |
A Serious Shark Bite After the Dive Ended, 7/23 |
Another Killer on Caribbean Reefs, 7/23 |
Lend A Hand On Your Next Dive Vacation: Part II , save the reefs, maybe save on taxes, 7/23 |
Volunteering for Maldives Whale Shark Research, 7/23 |
The Curaçao Aquarium - Not for Animal Lovers, 5/23 |
Stony Coral Disease Closes Bonaire Dive Sites, 5/23 |
Cage Diving with Great White Sharks Coming to Nova Scotia? Maybe, 5/23 |
Too Many Divers and Snorkelers Reduce Molokini Fish Populations, 5/23 |
A New Dive Site? It's Garbage!, 5/23 |
We Can Only Dream About Petit Mustique, Or can we?, 5/23 |
As Animals Confront Us, We Must Blame Ourselves, 4/23 |
The Weird World of Sea Slugs, 4/23 |
Should Divers Fear an Orca?, 4/23 |
Thieves? Maybe, and We Need More Like Them, 3/23 |
Ships May Be Fueling a Coral-Killing Epidemic , 2/23 |
Manta Populations Improve , 2/23 |
Mexico Closes Down Great White Shark Cage Diving , and there are questions why, 2/23 |
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Who Can Save Dying Reefs? Fish!, 11/22 |
Climate Change is Eliminating Florida's Male Turtles, 11/22 |
Have You Seen This Pink Manta?, 11/22 |
Feds Target Companies Involved in U.S. Shark Fin Trade, 10/22 |
Fishermen versus Divers Comes to a Head in Florida, charged with a felony for freeing fish, 10/22 |
How to Avoid a Shark Attack, 9/22 |
Tire Wear Kills Fish, 9/22 |
It's a Less Than Silent World, 8/22 |
Dolphins a Casualty of War, 7/22 |
Lionfish Leather? Could It Be a Solution?, 7/22 |
Amos Nachoum Authors a BIG Book And It’s a Must for Your Coffee Table, 7/22 |
Dolphins versus Divers in War, 6/22 |
Tough Punishment for an Unauthorized Dive Boat Buoy Line, 6/22 |
That Deadly Underwater Debris:, not only unsightly, but it’s a killer, 6/22 |
Can Sharks Learn to Hunt Lionfish?, and why teaching them is not the best idea, 4/22 |
Sydney Shark Kills Swimming PADI Instructor, 4/22 |
Ghost Fishing for the Birds, 4/22 |
Florida Goliath Grouper Protection Battle Lost, 3/22 |
Do Great Whites Mate off the Carolinas?, 3/22 |
The Lionfish’s Fear of Being Eaten, could the groupers’ appetite be crucial?, 3/22 |
Lego Reveals the Longevity of Plastic in the Ocean, 3/22 |
Rubbish Photography, 2/22 |
By-Product of a Pandemic, 2/22 |
Award Winning but Sad, 2/22 |
Do Fish Talk? Yes Indeed, 2/22 |
Starving Manatees Get Salad and a Warm Bath, 2/22 |
Cayman Stony Coral Disease, 1/22 |
The Goliath Grouper Needs Your Help by January 13th, 1/22 |
Award Winning Eel Shot, 1/22 |
Car Tires Discarded in the Ocean Trap Hermit Crabs Forever, 11/21 |
The Valerie Taylor Story, 11/21 |
Guidelines for Divers to Avoid Spreading Coral Disease, 10/21 |
Galapagos Migratory Sharks Threatened by Giant Chinese Fishing Fleet, 10/21 |
Freak Needlefish Accident, 10/21 |
Insuring The Local Reef: Is this the Future of Conservation?, 9/21 |
Undercurrent is Saving Olive Ridley Turtles, 7/21 |
Good News about Saving America’s Reefs, 5/20 |
Shark-Free Fish ’n Chips, 5/20 |
Jack Randall, the Original Fish ID Book Author, Passes, 5/20 |
Nature Takes Advantage of the Lockdown, 5/20 |
Good News for Coral in South Caicos, 4/20 |
California’s Giant Sea Bass – A Promising Story, 4/20 |
Keeping the Shark Myth Going, 4/20 |
Thoughtless Boater Damages Florida Corals, 4/20 |
Is that Aquarium Coral Farmed or Wild Coral? You Can’t Tell, 3/20 |
Goliath Groupers: Better in the Water than on the Plate, 3/20 |
Two Shark Attacks on Divers, you can be unlucky or very unlucky, 3/20 |
The Ticking Time Bomb of War Wrecks, 2/20 |
Lawsuit over Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Sting, 2/20 |
A Chance to Get Shark Bytes at Half Price, 2/20 |
A Row Erupts Over a Great White Shark’s Death, 1/20 |
Climate Change is Killing Clownfish, 1/20 |
The Rich Sounds of Healthy Reefs May Save Them, 1/20 |
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Dive Industry
For Undercurrent Online
Members, articles with are available to all
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52 Assignments - Underwater Photography by Alex Mustard, 1/25 |
The Diver & The Cook, Fascinating Nonfiction, 11/24 |
DEMA Working Hard To Pass The Dive Boat Act, 11/24 |
An Ill-Fated Cruise, when divemaster are experts and divers are idiots, 10/24 |
Undercurrent Is More Than This Newsletter, 9/24 |
Treasures, Shipwrecks, and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving -- Howard Rosenstein, 8/24 |
Discarded Oil Platforms Increase Ocean Fish Populations, 8/24 |
Independent Readers' Reports, 7/24 |
Copyright Issues, 7/24 |
Having Fun with Artificial Intelligence , and teaching it about scuba, 7/24 |
Another Bad Accident Waiting to Happen?, tiger sharks are not pussy cats, 7/24 |
Which Is The Best Dive Training Agency in 2024?, 6/24 |
DAN Insurance: Age is no Barrier, 6/24 |
Passengers Board, but this Aggressor Doesn't Sail, 4/24 |
How Should We Tip the Dive Crew? , whatever makes you comfortable, 4/24 |
Medical Examiner's Evaluation Form, 4/24 |
Remembering Paul Humann, 3/24 |
Independent Reader's Reports Are Invaluable, 3/24 |
The 2024 Travelin' Diver's Chapbook is in Print!, 3/24 |
Tipping for Divers; Part 1, will we learn from the Europeans?, 3/24 |
Coloring My World, 2/24 |
The Ocean Art 2023 Competition, 2/24 |
Pity the Poor PADI Professional, does the training agency charge too much?, 2/24 |
The 2023 New Orleans DEMA Show, an industry in recovery mode, 1/24 |
The Adventures of Gilliam and Garth, a remembrance of a great friend, 1/24 |
Great Diving While Saving Fish, 11/23 |
REEF, 11/23 |
Our Subscribers Depend Upon Your Reports, 11/23 |
Divers of a Certain Age , get your insurance and paperwork in order, 11/23 |
Conception Captain Found Guilty, in Southern California liveaboard fire that killed 34, 11/23 |
Diving Participation Rebounds Post-COVID, 10/23 |
Bret Gilliam Has Passed, 10/23 |
A PADI 5-Star Center Takes Issue, 10/23 |
Clarifications to Our September Wetpixel Story, from Adam Hanlon and Dr. Alex Mustard, 10/23 |
Homage to Stan Waterman, an underwater icon passes, 9/23 |
Is Wetpixel Breaking Bad?, the slippery slope toward fraud?, 9/23 |
The Dive - 90 Minutes on Amazon with 22 Minutes of Air, 9/23 |
Divers of a Certain Age: Part I, The Freedom to Dive, 9/23 |
Underjungle: An Underwater Fantasy, 9/23 |
Travel with a UK Agency, and You Won't Lose Money, 8/23 |
The Deepest Breath, a great documentary but it all ends in death, 8/23 |
Fancy Your Own Dive Center in the Sun?, maybe you're due for a different lifestyle, 7/23 |
R.I.P. Pirate's Point, 7/23 |
How Special is a PADI 5-Star Designation?, 5/23 |
We Can Only Dream About Petit Mustique, Or can we?, 5/23 |
Divemaster or Dive Guide?, 4/23 |
Strange Tales from the Deep, 4/23 |
What? No PADI Solo Diving Certification Accepted?, 3/23 |
Those Damn Fuel Surcharges, and not much we can do about it, 3/23 |
PADI Pays Up After a Training Death, It's settled, but expect no public insight about PADI, 3/23 |
Another Georgia Dive Instructor Guilty, 1/23 |
Socorro Aggressor Fails the Test, dumped at last from the Aggressor Fleet, 1/23 |
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Undercurrent Awarded Grant, 11/22 |
What Happens to Your Unwanted Neoprene Products?, 9/22 |
Mexico's Guadalupe Closed to Great White Diving, 9/22 |
Rude Divers - a Dive Center's Perspective, 9/22 |
Japanese Dive Shop Apologizes, 9/22 |
Advanced Diver, Really?, 9/22 |
Your Trip Reports Are Important, 8/22 |
Bonaire Update, 8/22 |
So, Who Writes Undercurrent?, 8/22 |
U.S. Dive Magazine's Best Diving Destinations, reader's votes only mean they have been there, 8/22 |
Before the Internet, You Called Bob Goddess to Go Diving, 8/22 |
PADI Responds to Cancun Diver Fatalities, 8/22 |
What’s the Significance of “Advanced” in PADI AOW Certification?, 7/22 |
The Yucatan Stonewalls its Diving Deaths, and the streets can be dangerous, 7/22 |
Overtaken by the Race for Certification or Age?, some very experienced divers may be turned away, 6/22 |
Russian Scuba Embargos, 4/22 |
Ninety-Nine Years and Counting, Stan Waterman’s camera brought scuba diving to the world, 4/22 |
Diving With Grim Purpose (continued), 4/22 |
Are All Diving Instructors Up to The Job?, what works in the book may be unsafe in the water, 4/22 |
Want to Enroll in an Underwater Photography Course?, 3/22 |
Your Reader Reports are Important, 3/22 |
Looking for a Diving Job?, 3/22 |
The Valerie Taylor Story, 11/21 |
It’s Not OK to Sell Dive Gear to Libya, rebreather expert in trouble again, 11/21 |
Is Your Computer Too Conservative? Not On Your Life!, 9/21 |
The Loss of a Diving Icon, 9/21 |
A Dream Diving Job in Mexico; no visibility, surrounded by the detritus of human life, 9/21 |
Back in the Water Again, and a look at the options for dive travel, 7/21 |
Diver and Instructor Fitness, 5/20 |
Tough Times in the Dive Travel Industry, resort and boat owners to tell us how they are managing, 5/20 |
Plenty of Tales of Woe Among Traveling Divers, Paid for a trip? Don’t set your heart on a refund, 5/20 |
Airline Ticket Refunds; It’s the Law!, 5/20 |
Can You Trust Your Dive Guide?, are they as careful and responsible as they should be?, 5/20 |
Jack Randall, the Original Fish ID Book Author, Passes, 5/20 |
Undercurrent Readers’ Rescue Australian Wildlife from the Devastating Fires, 5/20 |
Bigger Fish Suffer More from Climate Change, 5/20 |
Diving, Travel, Coronavirus, Chaos, What’s happening to the traveling diver and our destinations?, 4/20 |
Nautilus Liveaboards Gets Flack and Responds Well, 4/20 |
Refunds on Flight Tickets?, 4/20 |
The Excess Weight We Carry, should dive operators reject high BMI, plus-size divers?, 3/20 |
How Much “Fat Shaming” Is There in Diving?, 3/20 |
An Investment for the Gullible, 2/20 |
American Underwater Photography Team Cleans Up Again, 2/20 |
When Your Cabin Mate Gets Sick, can you count on the crew to help you avoid contagion?, 2/20 |
The Conception had been Exempted from USCG Fire Safety Standards, 2/20 |
Kids’ Sea Camp, 2/20 |
A Row Erupts Over a Great White Shark’s Death, 1/20 |
Harrowing Tales from the Red Sea Aggressor I Fire, errors led to the disaster and post-disaster mismanagement, 1/20 |
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Diving Insurance, Legal, & Disputes
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Members, articles with are available to all
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The Red Sea Sea Story Liveaboard Disaster, there's more to the story, 1/25 |
DEMA Working Hard To Pass The Dive Boat Act, 11/24 |
Florida Scuba Charter Skipper Indicted for Manslaughter, 10/24 |
Now, Cancun Has the Customs Banditos, 8/24 |
Boylan Ordered to Pay Minimal Restitution, 8/24 |
Copyright Issues, 7/24 |
The Mysterious Disappearance of Grand Cayman Scuba Tanks, 6/24 |
DAN Insurance: Age is no Barrier, 6/24 |
Should I Insure Old Scuba Gear? , 3/24 |
DAN Accident Insurance, 1/24 |
Conception Captain Found Guilty, in Southern California liveaboard fire that killed 34, 11/23 |
Conception Fire Appears To Have Started in a Plastic Trash Can, 11/23 |
Clarifications to Our September Wetpixel Story, from Adam Hanlon and Dr. Alex Mustard, 10/23 |
Guadalupe Island Closing Cost Big Money , for liveaboard operators and some customers, 8/23 |
The Deadly MY Hurricane Fire, yet another liveaboard tragedy, 8/23 |
Carlton Queen Capsizes in the Red Sea, what happened next, 7/23 |
Legal Remedies for Overseas Injuries Unlikely, 7/23 |
Will Insurance Issues put Caribbean Dive Operators Out of Business?, 5/23 |
A Unique and Serious Injury at Ramon's in Belize , a tough fight for compensation in another country, 5/23 |
Full-face Snorkeling Mask Implicated Again, 5/23 |
Punishment Abroad for Training Deaths, but it will never happen here, 4/23 |
Insurance and the Traveling Diver: Part II, getting the right policy and making it pay, 4/23 |
Free Diver Pipin Sues Netflix for Defamation, 4/23 |
Insurance and the Traveling Diver; Part I, readers tell of woes and triumphs, 3/23 |
Thieves? Maybe, and We Need More Like Them, 3/23 |
Insurance Claim Denied, But I'm a New Person, 3/23 |
Mexico Closes Down Great White Shark Cage Diving , and there are questions why, 2/23 |
Another Georgia Dive Instructor Guilty, 1/23 |
Malta Dive Accident Ruled Involuntary Homicide, CCR and traditional SCUBA do not mix, 1/23 |
Anyone Can Get Bent, So Get Insured, 1/23 |
Conception Deaths Spark New Owner Liability Law, 1/23 |
Conception I-Phone Video, trapped below deck, divers sought a way out, 1/23 |
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Georgia Dive Store Operators Guilty of Bilking the Veteran’s Administration, 10/22 |
Lack of Progress in Implementing Conception Safety Recommendations, 10/22 |
Feds Target Companies Involved in U.S. Shark Fin Trade, 10/22 |
Fishermen versus Divers Comes to a Head in Florida, charged with a felony for freeing fish, 10/22 |
Diving Instructor Arrested, 10/22 |
Advanced Diver, Really?, 9/22 |
Diving Accident Stats are "Inaccurate ... Manipulated ... Misrepresented", 8/22 |
The Perils of Travel Remain in the Time of COVID, a cautionary tale of our times, 8/22 |
PADI Responds to Cancun Diver Fatalities, 8/22 |
Nobody Gets Away Scot Free, diving death shuts down dive operator decades later, 7/22 |
The Yucatan Stonewalls its Diving Deaths, and the streets can be dangerous, 7/22 |
Dolphins versus Divers in War, 6/22 |
Tough Punishment for an Unauthorized Dive Boat Buoy Line, 6/22 |
Scuba Scene – Another Liveaboard Burns, with conflicting perceptions of the aftermath, 6/22 |
Russian Scuba Embargos, 4/22 |
Dive/Travel Insurance Woes?, 4/22 |
Big and Unnecessary Disappointments, the Solmar V leaves passengers with nowhere to go, 4/22 |
U.S. Dive Boat Owner’s Liability Might Increase, 11/21 |
The Ugly American Unmasked, on divers respecting and protecting others, 11/21 |
It’s Not OK to Sell Dive Gear to Libya, rebreather expert in trouble again, 11/21 |
American Gold Salvors Spared Criminal Action, 11/21 |
Wearing Fins on Deck Proves Fatal, and the British boat captain is found liable, 10/21 |
Coast Guard Sued by 34 Families, legal action from The Conception dive boat disaster victims, 10/21 |
The Risk of Selling Second-hand Dive Gear, 7/21 |
The Tragic, Unnecessary Death of an AOW Trainee, is it time to rethink regulating dive instruction?, 7/21 |
Diver and Instructor Fitness, 5/20 |
Tough Times in the Dive Travel Industry, resort and boat owners to tell us how they are managing, 5/20 |
Plenty of Tales of Woe Among Traveling Divers, Paid for a trip? Don’t set your heart on a refund, 5/20 |
Airline Ticket Refunds; It’s the Law!, 5/20 |
Diving, Travel, Coronavirus, Chaos, What’s happening to the traveling diver and our destinations?, 4/20 |
Nautilus Liveaboards Gets Flack and Responds Well, 4/20 |
Refunds on Flight Tickets?, 4/20 |
Why You Need Medical Evacuation Insurance, 3/20 |
The Death of an Insured Diver, and why his wife could not collect, 3/20 |
When Dive Gear Evidence Goes Missing, 2/20 |
The Ins and Outs of Trip Insurance, if you’re over 70, DAN think you’re too old for coverage, 2/20 |
Lawsuit over Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Sting, 2/20 |
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Diving Financial
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Members, articles with are available to all
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Getty Has Not Requested My Images, 1/25 |
Investing in Digital Camera and Expensive Strobes?, 11/24 |
Now, Cancun Has the Customs Banditos, 8/24 |
Selling Used Gear/Underwater Photo Classes - New Undercurrent Blogs, 8/24 |
Customs Banditos, 7/24 |
Passengers Board, but this Aggressor Doesn't Sail, 4/24 |
How Should We Tip the Dive Crew? , whatever makes you comfortable, 4/24 |
Pity the Poor PADI Professional, does the training agency charge too much?, 2/24 |
Is Wetpixel Breaking Bad?, the slippery slope toward fraud?, 9/23 |
Guadalupe Island Closing Cost Big Money , for liveaboard operators and some customers, 8/23 |
Lend A Hand On Your Next Dive Vacation: Part II , save the reefs, maybe save on taxes, 7/23 |
Volunteering for Maldives Whale Shark Research, 7/23 |
Flotsam & Jetsam, 5/23 |
Lend A Hand on Your Next Dive Vacation: Part I , save the reefs, maybe save on taxes, 4/23 |
Those Damn Fuel Surcharges, and not much we can do about it, 3/23 |
PADI Pays Up After a Training Death, It's settled, but expect no public insight about PADI, 3/23 |
How Not to Lose $95 in a Bonaire Tourist Tax Scam , 2/23 |
Conception Deaths Spark New Owner Liability Law, 1/23 |
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Diving Miscellaneous
For Undercurrent Online
Members, articles with are available to all
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Never Know What You'll Find On A Leisurely Dive, In Hong Kong, it was a live 500-pound Japanese bomb, 1/25 |
Sharks on Drugs, 8/24 |
For Americans Traveling to Cuba, 1/24 |
118 Countries and More to Come, 1/24 |
A Journey to the Depths of the Ocean, 11/23 |
Snorkeling in the Slime of a Welsh Bog, 10/23 |
Whalefall, a Diver's Novel Like No Other, 10/23 |
Divers of a Certain Age: Part I, The Freedom to Dive, 9/23 |
Miss a Connection and Arrive Four Days Later, 8/23 |
Avatars' Actors' Amazing Breath Holding Skills, 1/23 |
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Rude Divers Can Ruin Trips (Part II), it's all about competitiveness, 10/22 |
Electronically Tagging Your Dive Bag so You’ll Know Where it Is, 10/22 |
Underwater Texting?, 10/22 |
Going Deeper than Ever, 9/22 |
Rude Divers Can Ruin Trips, thankfully, they are few and far between, 9/22 |
Keeping An Important Discovery Secret, 8/22 |
Amos Nachoum Authors a BIG Book And It’s a Must for Your Coffee Table, 7/22 |
The Bicycle Thief, 4/22 |
Inept Buoyancy Control, 3/22 |
The Boy in October Sky Became a Man Who Taught Astronauts to Dive, 11/21 |
Antigua’s English Harbor Reveals Historic Shipwreck, 9/21 |
Movies for Divers Stuck at Home, 4/20 |
Diving and Politeness: Be Patient and Take Your Place in Line, 2/20 |
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