Setting Up a Home Fitness Gym

Achieving and maintaining a healthy fitness foundation helps you safely enjoy diving. Time and money are the most common barriers to regular exercise, so a home gym can be a practical and cost-effective solution for fitting workouts into your busy schedule. It eliminates a commute to the gym and membership fees.

woman on cycle machine

Smalltooth Sawfish

Equipment: Olympus PEN E-PL10, 14-42mm zoom lens with a wet wide-angle diopter, AOI Octo housing, two Sea & Sea YS-D3 strobesSettings: 1/50 sec, f/13, ISO 250Location: Florida Keys, Florida Smalltooth […]

Smalltooth sawfish

What To Look for on a Dive Boat

When you are in an emergency while diving from a boat, you and the crew can’t waste precious moments looking for safety equipment. Whether on a day boat or liveaboard, some safety items should be readily available.

Gaming Introduced Me to a New World 

I’m 14 years old and a newly certified scuba diver. I’ve heard that many years ago divers got certified because of Jacques Cousteau or an old TV show called Sea Hunt, but those were way before my time.

Teenage male plays game “Subnautica”

Dive Incident Reporting System

In 2012 DAN released a tool for divers to report dive accidents to help us quantify their severity and frequency. We revitalized the reporting process to make it easier and more efficient and relaunched it in 2021.

Diver receiving oxygen

Shark Deterrents

Many divers seek interactions with sharks, but others actively seek to avoid them. As long as sharks are in the water, people will look for ways to reduce the lethality of a shark bite or decrease encounters altogether. 

shark feeding

Continuing Education for Dive Professionals

Many professional and occupational fields — such as medicine, engineering, accounting, and insurance — require continuing education to maintain a current certification.

Dive professional speaking about dives around Wolf Island

When Tiny Toxins Fight Back

Sometimes the tiniest critters can pack the greatest punch. Phytoplankton, which are unicellular microalgae, can cause mass mortalities of animals such as dolphins and manatees and be the source of serious human illness.

phytoplankton

Ray Dalio

You don’t have to dive very deep into the world of finance to be aware of Ray Dalio. Journalist Bill Whitaker interviewed him in 2019 on the campus of Dalio’s firm, Bridgewater Associates, and introduced him this way: “This week on 60 Minutes we met Ray Dalio.

Dalio pilots an underwater DPV through a massive school of tropical reef fish

A Brief History of IMAX Underwater

In 1992 I received a call from Graeme Ferguson, a co-founder of IMAX Corporation, that changed the course of my career.

underwater photo shoot with a squid