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Scuba Diving Magazine
Feeling marching ants crawling under the skin of my thighs at 60 feet during decompression, it was clear to me that I was bent.  
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Danny was having one of the greatest days of his short dive career. Conditions were perfect. Visibility seemed to go on forever. Until the grouper he had just speared knocked his regulator out of his mouth and his mask askew. Suddenly, he was in trouble.
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Scuba Diving Magazine
CPR and life support aren't included in basic scuba training — is just learning to dive enough of a challenge for beginners? 
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Conservation agencies say no, so why do so many divers do it anyway?
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Perhaps nothing ruins a dive trip more quickly than an urgent need to “feed the fish” from the railing. Thus, most divers try very diligently to avoid getting motion sickness – but how? What really works?
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Buoyancy Practice
It’s the bane of all divers. We want to go down, but the inherent buoyancy in our wetsuits, our BCs, our lungs and our fat cells are all conspiring to keep that from happening. Here's how to determine how much weight you will need...
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Scuba Diving Magazine
A diver ignoring a nagging pain in her shoulder and neck spends some time in the chamber. What lessons can you learn from this dive accident? 
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Scuba Diving Magazine
From sleeping sharks to the deepest dives these outrageous dive stories aren't just entertaining. These true stories are sure to leave you curious about the outrageous people behind them! 
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Mask Fitting
From buying new dive equipment to taking care of what you already own, these simple tips will help you get the most out of your money. 
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Got a great underwater image? Here's how to get it noticed by photo editors and make money from your hard work.
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Perhaps nothing ruins a dive trip more quickly than an urgent need to “feed the fish” from the railing. Thus, most divers try very diligently to avoid getting motion sickness – but how? What really works?
Related tags: Basic Skills
Buoyancy Practice
It’s the bane of all divers. We want to go down, but the inherent buoyancy in our wetsuits, our BCs, our lungs and our fat cells are all conspiring to keep that from happening. Here's how to determine how much weight you will need...
Related tags: Basic Skills
Mask Fitting
From buying new dive equipment to taking care of what you already own, these simple tips will help you get the most out of your money. 
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Simplify, organize and have fun! Here are six tips to make your day on a dive boat a success.
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A modern regulator is an extremely reliable mechanism. So reliable, in fact, that some divers will take their regs on countless dives and never so much as rinse them off. Yet they keep on delivering air year after year.
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Dive Computers
An algorithm is the mathematical formula a dive computer uses that factors in real-time measurements of depth, gas mix, time at depth—and, depending on the algorithm, potentially lots of other data—to calculate how long you can stay under water with a reasonable degree of assurance that you won’t get hit with decompression sickness (DCS).
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Mask Fitting
It’s no fun diving with a mask that keeps filling with water every few seconds. So the first consideration when buying a mask is how well its skirt seals against your face. Despite claims to the contrary, no one mask fits all. 
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Scuba Diver
 Owning your own Wetsuit. What’s better than wearing a comfortable warmer that molds to your body shape like a second skin? 
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Make the most of your time and money with these simple common sense tips.
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Shore Diving Tips
The major downside to beach diving is all that sand will sneak into your wetsuit and attack your reg if you give it half a chance. To avoid that, gear up at your car, then grab mask and fins and make a beeline for the water.
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Feeling marching ants crawling under the skin of my thighs at 60 feet during decompression, it was clear to me that I was bent.  
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Scuba Diving Magazine
From sleeping sharks to the deepest dives these outrageous dive stories aren't just entertaining. These true stories are sure to leave you curious about the outrageous people behind them! 
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Scuba Diving Photo Editor reports from the Backscatter Digital Shootout at the Little Cayman Beach Resort 
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Lucas Barroso - rebreather diver
Sixteen-year-old Lucas Barroso’s determination to get his rebreather certification is inspiring
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World Oldest Diver
Norman Lancefield is 91 and still an active diver. Read his story, as well as that of Lucas Barroso, Canada's youngest rebreather diver.
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DUI DOG RALLY
Each year, the DOGs – as in DUI Owners Group – participate in a nation-wide road trip that allows thousands of divers to experience drysuit diving for the first time.
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dolphin tail lob
A blog for divers who are making a difference in the fight to save our ocean environment through marine conservation.
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macro seahorse
A collection of quick tips for getting the most out of your underwater camera's macro lens.
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Before you explore your first wrecks, here are a few key pieces of scuba gear you might want to add to your kit.
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wreck diving
Get the most out of your wreck dives with these helpful tips.
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Join DAN this June for Diver Safety Month and pick up some skills that just might save your life. 
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Topic #10: Heart Issues & Cardio Medications
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Topic #9: Managing Dive Accidents & Injuries
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Topic #7: Diabetes
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Your diving questions answered.
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Topic #6: Mood-Altering Meds
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Commonly Confused Signs and Symptoms of DCI
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Your diving questions answered.
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From the May, 2008 issue of Scuba Diving Magazine. Topic #3: Flying and Diving
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Topic #2: Marine Life Injuries
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Got a great underwater image? Here's how to get it noticed by photo editors and make money from your hard work.
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Ocean Corp. gets divers ready for a dream career seeing the world
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Scuba Diving Magazine
For an unexpected way to see the world, train to be an NDT inspector
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OWUSS European Rolex Scholar
The 2011 Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society European Rolex Scholar, Erin McFadden, blogs about her experiences
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Police Diver Trooper Lamardo
On a routine practice dive in zero visibility, discovery of a high-school ring leads to the closing of a missing persons case for police divers
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Sea Hero: Shawn Heinrichs final
Meet Scuba Diving's May 2011 SEA Hero
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Ocean Corporation's Commercial Diving Experience.
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Do you have what it takes to dive inside a water tower, nuclear reactor, shark net or beneath 20 feet of polar ice? Meet the people who do.
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Fifty years ago, a career in diving meant joining the U.S. Navy. Today, people face a wide range of options for diving careers. Commercial divers must be able to thrive under harsh conditions and require education beyond open-water certification.
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What drives poachers and pros to risk polluted water, snake bites, gator attacks and accidental drowning? As much as $100,000 a year.
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Wounded veterans find mobility, confidence & a lifetime of possibilities underwater.
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Thanks to flexible training options, learning to dive has never been easier.
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June 2007 By Moira Honeyman Photography by Tim Calver I'm not sure why this thought comes to me, but kneeling on the sand in 40 feet of water, literally surrounded by Caribbean reef sharks, I decide it's best if I don't look ...
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The Insider's Guide to 12 Great Scuba Destinations
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A beginner's guide to the equipment that makes diving possible.
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How a learn-to-dive vacation changed one woman's life.
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Don't let these common misconceptions hold you back.
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Danny was having one of the greatest days of his short dive career. Conditions were perfect. Visibility seemed to go on forever. Until the grouper he had just speared knocked his regulator out of his mouth and his mask askew. Suddenly, he was in trouble.
Related tags: Lessons for Life
Scuba Diving Magazine
A diver ignoring a nagging pain in her shoulder and neck spends some time in the chamber. What lessons can you learn from this dive accident? 
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In a classic case, panic, claustrophobia and poor decision-making lead to a dive fatality.
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Far exceeding recreational limits leads to death for a new diver
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Scuba Diving Magazine
How understanding the process of clearing your ears can help you save an eardrum.
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Is Getting a Catch Worth Your Life? Holding on to a speared fish causes this diver to drown. 
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Despite off-gassing, flying after diving worsens decompression symptoms this diver didn't recognize
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Basic dive planning, and a simple dive flag, might have averted this disaster.
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A diver makes a difficult decision in an attempt to get help for his buddy while cave diving
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Lessons for Life
Unaware that his body’s aches and pains were symptoms of a potentially larger problem, a new diver continues his dive trip
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Scuba Diving Magazine
CPR and life support aren't included in basic scuba training — is just learning to dive enough of a challenge for beginners? 
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Conservation agencies say no, so why do so many divers do it anyway?
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Ask an Expert: Should You CO Test Every Tank?
CO testing is recommended, not mandatory, and poisonings are not recorded — but is there really cause for alarm?
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Surface Marker - Scuba Diving Magazine
One author says dive-training agencies should teach SMB use, not mandate it, while another says you never really know when you might need it
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Like automobile drivers in some states, should divers be required to recertify at regular intervals?
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Two instructors debate what age is best to start kids on their way to dive certification.
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Two instructors discuss the merits of rescue course, and whether it should be required for all divers   
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Two experienced divers debate whether the dive industry should mandate the use of redundant air systems.
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Two underwater photographers debate whether muck sticks should be used when diving
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Scuba Diving Magazine
Our experts debate whether Discovery Channel’s popular annual series is educational or just entertainment at the sharks’ expense
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