Known for their striking colors, patterns and forms, nudibranchs are found in seas all over the world. Sculptor Gar Waterman’s fascination with these sea slugs extends beyond his aesthetic appreciation for their unique, organic form. Because most nudibranchs have a life span of less than a year and adapt rapidly to changes in their environment, they help scientists understand the impact of global warming on ocean health. With each nudibranch that he has cut, chiseled and polished from stone, Waterman hopes to communicate their quirky beauty and scientific role.
LUIZ ROCHA, PH.D., HAS BEEN A MAN ON A FISH MISSION since he was a young boy exploring the waters in his small coastal hometown in Brazil. He investigated tidepools, had fish tanks when he was 5 years old, and was declared a future scientist by his third-grade teacher …
Intronisée en 2023 au Women Divers Hall of Fame, Mme Taylor espère inciter les gens à réfléchir aux petites choses qu'ils peuvent faire chaque jour et qui, collectivement, peuvent faire une grande différence.
Lorsque vous en avez le plus besoin, DAN est là pour vous aider. Nous coordonnons les évacuations d'urgence et couvrons les frais de nos membres jusqu'à concurrence de US$500 000 par personne. Chaque membre de DAN a droit à ces services d'urgence ainsi qu'à une assistance voyage, médicale, juridique et personnelle.
Traditional copper and brass deep-sea dive helmets often attract the modern dive community’s attention. International interest recently spiked when a helmet believed to be from the dawn of American professional diving sold for a record-setting $54,000 in Wichita, Kansas.
DAN has introduced the Research Grant Program, designed to push the boundaries of dive safety through innovative research. The program will support studies that develop robust theories and empirical evidence that contribute to safer dive experiences.
When we pack for a trip, our minds are usually filled with checklists that include passports, boarding passes, medications, and an extra phone charger. We rarely consider if we are […]
Octopuses hole up in small dens, are quite excellent at camouflage and are most active at night, so not all divers have seen one on a dive. But biologist Matthew Birk, who studies octopuses, felt that never having seen one in the wild was a blemish on his career and sought to remedy the situation on a trip to Santa Catalina Island off Southern California.
IN 1983-84, REEFS THROUGHOUT THE CARIBBEAN, FLORIDA, AND BERMUDA experienced one of the greatest mass mortalities of a marine species ever recorded when an unknown waterborne pathogen killed more than 98 percent of the Diadema sea urchin population.1 In February of this year, divers in St. Thomas noticed many of the Diadema were suddenly no […]
Le petit terrain de l'Armée de l'air royale canadienne (ARC) à Gander, Terre-Neuve, s'est fait connaître comme l'aéroport vers lequel des dizaines de vols internationaux ont été détournés après les attaques terroristes du 11 septembre 2001.
