Liz Taylor: A Diver and a Doer

A 2023 inductee into the Women Divers Hall of Fame, Taylor hopes to get people to think about little things they can do every day that collectively can make a big difference.

Liz Taylor outside DOER headquarters

Identifying the Lost Liberator

The small Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) field at Gander, Newfoundland, gained notoriety as the airport to which dozens of international flights were diverted after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Diver Luc Michel ties a heavy line onto the landing gear

TRAVEL SMARTER : Personal Safety While Traveling

WHETHER TRAVELING DOMESTICALLY OR ABROAD, you can take steps to ensure your personal safety. With proper planning, self-awareness, and some common sense, you can enjoy your destination with relative ease by implementing some of the following personal safety practices. 

woman traveling worried about being followed

DAN Dispatch: Monitoring Cardiac Health in Scuba Divers

DECOMPRESSION-RELATED EVENTS typically come to mind when thinking of dive injuries and fatalities. DAN Research’s incident analysis program, however, has shown that approximately one-third of dive fatalities can be traced to a cardiac event, making cardiac-related issues the No. 1 cause of fatalities while diving.

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Program Spotlight: DAN Products Make 2022’s Gear of the Year

SCUBALAB RECENTLY AWARDED FOUR DAN STORE products with spots in their 2022 Gear of the Year lineup in the March 2023 issue of Scuba Diving. Test-team divers reviewed more than 100 products across seven categories and awarded the following DAN items high honors for functionality and value.

2022 Gear of the Year Award

Member Profile: Breathing-Gas Giant Jess Stark

FROM THE ARCTIC CIRCLE TO ANTARTICA, if you’ve ever taken a breath from a scuba cylinder, there’s a good chance that cylinder was filled using a Stark Industries breathing-air compressor. For half a century dive operators and fill stations around the world have been using Stark compressors to fill divers’ tanks, trusting their quality to meet daily demands.

Jess Stark

Diving for Artificial Reefs

IN JUNE 2019 I MADE MY FIRST DIVE after eight months of repairing our home in Mexico Beach, Florida, from the ravages of Hurricane Michael. After finally recovering from the storm, I resumed doing underwater surveys as a volunteer diver for the Mexico Beach Artificial Reef Association (MBARA).

diver at memorial reef

Diving and Dying for Lobster

WITH CLEAR, WARM WATER, dozens of excellent dive sites, and the second-largest barrier reef in the world nearby, Roatán, Honduras, is a premier dive destination and a popular stop on […]

Injured divers at Cornerstone Clinic

Physioshark Team Studies Climate Change Impacts on Sharks

FOR 450 MILLION YEARS some shark species have been apex predators in the aquatic world, helping to balance the fathomless yet fragile marine ecosystem. But even with all their instinctual knowledge we see more and more species on our endangered lists. 

A team member releases a baby shark
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