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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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Sea Hero: Shawn Heinrichs final
Meet Scuba Diving's May 2011 SEA Hero
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Lessons for Life
Staying together and carrying a surface-marker buoy can save your life when stranded
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Spearfishing on Scuba
Two experts debate whether spearfishing on scuba is safer for the diver and the environment
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Two experts weigh in on whether swimming and diving with whales disrupts their natural behavior.
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Lessons in scuba diving safety. This month: A buddy team with different equipment and vastly different experience leads to disaster.
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Two sides of the climate-change coin weigh in on whether sea levels are rising.
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Lessons in scuba diving safety. This month: Thinking past medical problems shouldn’t keep her out of the water, a diver lies on the medical clearance in order to dive.
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Lessons in scuba diving safety. This month: A new dive toy and poor planning lead to deadly consequences
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Seasickness is no way to begin a dive. Here's how to stop it before it starts.
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Poor planning and careless gear maintenance left Allison gasping for air.
Bill's disregard for Scuba 101 turned the perfect dive into a disaster.
A rescue class can save your life and make you a better diver in the process.
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by Jenn Loder Photo by Patricia Warner Was there really ever any doubt that I would dive again?! Ok--honestly--yes, there were a few doubts and obstacles along ...
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Bad news from your doctor doesn't have to mean the end of your diving career.
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When can you safely say the diving day is over?
What to do when you surface down current from the dive boat.
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Balancing your ballast load is a crucial-but often overlooked-key to pinpoint buoyancy control.
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Your diving questions answered.
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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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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 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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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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Ocean Corp. gets divers ready for a dream career seeing the world
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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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The emergency skill you've never practiced may be the one you really need.
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Breathing from the wrong gas supply didn't kill Sam--heart disease and obesity got him first.
Combine shore diving with poor fitness, inserviced gear, bad judgement and a hangover.
In a hurry to be the first person on the wreck, an experienced diver makes a rookie mistake that costs him his life.
Three divers watch their dive boat disappear as they drift helplessly in the opposite direction. What would you do?
Trying to earn a little extra cash, a diver finds himself tethered to a boat propeller.
A series of avoidable mistakes claims the lives of two divers.
Two divers ignore common sense and repeated warnings not to venture into a cave.
Taking a stranger as a buddy, one diver gets more than she bargains for.
Ill-prepared for ocean currents, an out-of-shape diver panics with fatal results.
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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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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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Like automobile drivers in some states, should divers be required to recertify at regular intervals?
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Two instructors debate what age is best to start kids on their way to dive certification.
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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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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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Our experts debate whether Discovery Channel’s popular annual series is educational or just entertainment at the sharks’ expense
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