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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
How understanding the process of clearing your ears can help you save an eardrum.
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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
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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Scuba Diving Magazine
Two instructors debate what age is best to start kids on their way to dive certification.
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BC Maintenance
Follow these 8 tips to keep your BC in good working order and ready for your next dive.
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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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Join DAN this June for Diver Safety Month and pick up some skills that just might save your life. 
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Two instructors discuss the merits of rescue course, and whether it should be required for all divers   
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13 tips to extend the life of your drysuit.
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How to ensure your drysuit valve operates safely
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Sean makes a solo night dive, and his lack of training leads to tragedy. This is a true story, but the names have been changed. 
By not properly servicing her gear after a long dive layoff, Jane pays a heavy price.
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For a head start in exploring the underworld, here’s a look at what it takes to be a cavern diver.
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After their unattended boat disappears, Bob and Bill find themselves deserted with no emergency plan, and no way to call for help.
Alex's new drysuit should've provided his most comfortable dive yet.
Ocean Corporation's Commercial Diving Experience.
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Your diving questions answered.
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A step-by-step, piece-by-piece guide to caring for your dive gear.
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Put those tech-diving skills to use on these amazing sites.
There's more to diving than "60 feet for 30 minutes, back on the boat with 500 psi" if you have the right tools, training and mind-set for the expanding world of recreational tech diving.
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Because at 100 feet, everybody gets narced.
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In Rescue Diver training, our writer learns to save a diver in distress, and manages to save his pride in the process.
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Proper weighting is a moving target that changes with every dive. Find it with our exclusive buoyancy calculator.
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How to radically stretch no-deco limits and live to tell about it.
How long will a tank last you at a given depth? Here's how to find out.
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Not afraid of the dark, are you? Conquer your fear of night diving with our 12 essential rules for after-hours fun. Plus: Nine nights you'll never forget and four lights you shouldn't dive without.
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If something went wrong on your next dive, would you be the hero or the helpless bystander?
Make your next dive cruise your best vacation ever.
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With some tips from this ancient discipline, the Eagle could replace your octopus.
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Plus: Diving after a root canal and a cold and flu quiz.
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How to keep your local chiropractor off your back.
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Divers Alert Network answers your questions monthly.
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American divers are making a bigger splash these days. How fat is unfit?
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Plus: tips on airway control, a DCS quiz, and steps for treating sea urchin wounds.
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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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Why diving beyond your fitness level and not properly controlling your buoyancy can be fatal.
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Most of the time when we are diving, we are relaxed and swimming slowly, doing little more than finning along the reef. The level of fitness required for those circumstances is only slightly higher than that required to sit on your couch and ...
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Sean makes a solo night dive, and his lack of training leads to tragedy. This is a true story, but the names have been changed. 
By not properly servicing her gear after a long dive layoff, Jane pays a heavy price.
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After their unattended boat disappears, Bob and Bill find themselves deserted with no emergency plan, and no way to call for help.
Alex's new drysuit should've provided his most comfortable dive yet.
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Poor planning and heavy exertion turned Bill's dive toxic.
A subtle equipment malfunction gives Karl a nasty surprise.
Dive accidents, close calls & how you can avoid them.
Dive accidents, close calls & how you can avoid them.
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Two industry experts debate the pros and cons of sinking ships and other structures to serve as man-made reefs.
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Two industry experts debate the ethics of shark feeding.
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Two industry experts debate whether spearfishing is a hazard or an efficient way of taking only what you need.
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Two industry experts debate whether snorkels are still relevant equipment or relics of a past diving age.
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Industry experts present both sides of the dolphin debate so you can be the judge.
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Two dive-industry experts weigh in on the pros and cons of “treasure hunting” so you can make an informed decision.
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