How Jacques Cousteau Was Like Carl Sagan

Chris Mooney wrote the following article for Discover magazine a few weeks ago.  Most diver are familiar with Jacques Cousteau or his son Philippe Cousteau.   If you don’t know much about Jacques this will give you a more insight.  Enjoy
Last night, along [...]

Many of us who have been diving for a FEW years have been in many places known to divers throughout the world.  But every so often we find a place that is off the beaten path and Homestead Crater in Utah is one of those place.
Inside the crater is a thermo pool and dive center. [...]

The Key West Dive Center, the premier center for all things related to Key West diving and tours, will be offering special Fantasy Fest rates and trips for the hundreds of thousands of revelers who descend on the southernmost island of Key West during the last week of October. The center hopes to [...]

Starfish are mysterious creatures. Some people and articles I have read say they should be called sea stars because of their shape and their lack of relationship to fish. I had never taken an interest in them until recently when I visited Alaska and kayaked on the Tatoosh Islands. The Tatoosh are located north of [...]

Galapagos Shark
Off the west coast of Ecuador in South America lays a paradise for scuba divers known as the Galapagos Islands. Made up of 13 major islands and 45 islets, all volcanic in origin, the island chain provides incredi-ble diving for all experience levels. The islands were made famous in 1831 as the inspiration for [...]

Use a Strobe
Though not always necessary, strobes can really make a huge difference to your underwater photographs. A strobe helps introduce light thereby adding true colors to your photographs and reducing that blue/cyan hue on all your pictures. A strobe also helps freeze motion, and get higher shutter speeds from your camera, which is crucial [...]

This site usually does not publish articles about scuba accidents and death, however there has been an increased number of UNTRAINED people using hookahs to dive and more accidents are happening.  Scubaology wrote an article about SNUBA a while ago.

This article was published in the Tampa Tribune by Neil Johnson.
TAMPA – It’s easy to see [...]

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Playa Del Carmen, Mexico The Riviera Maya Divers Alliance announced the first free entry recreational and technical Scuba Diving Photo Contest in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico during the week of December 5th to 12, 2009, which includes photos opportunities in the Yucatan Caves, Caverns and on the second largest barrier reef in the [...]

I recently found a good site for looking at scuba videos  http://www.scubadivingtube.com/ The site show places to dive and also reviews equipment.
It you have a few minutes check it out.  Maybe even bookmark it.

Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco today to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive vortex of floating plastic trash estimated by some researchers to be twice the size of Texas.
The bobbing debris [...]