DAN Staff Visit French Navy Submarine Base

While staff from DAN’s Research, Safety Services, and Medical departments were attending the recent European Underwater and Baromedical Society conference in France to present their latest work, they were able to visit the nearby French naval submarine base and board an active-duty submarine carrying nuclear warhead payloads. 

French Navy submarine

Beavers: Nature’s Ecosystem Engineers

In search of beavers, my colleagues and I followed the Cap-Chat River on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula to a village of immaculate, steep-roofed houses that shares the river’s name. Near the […]

Beaver swimming

Rasa Memiliki Tujuan

Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona Years Diving: 34 Favorite Dive Destination: Little Cayman is special because of the conservation work our team has done through the Grouper Moon Project and the time I’ve spent there […]

Pelayaran Terakhir

IT IS MAY 1940, AND GERMANY HAS BEEN AT WAR WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM for more than eight months. Tensions are high across western Europe. It appears inevitable that Italy, under the fascist government of Benito Mussolini, will enter the war aligned with Germany. In Naples, Capt. Lorenzo Muiesan of Italy’s SS Umbria, a maritime […]

Menyelam untuk Terumbu Buatan

PADA JUNI 2019, SAYA MELAKUKAN PENYELAMATAN PERTAMA SAYA setelah delapan bulan memperbaiki rumah kami di Mexico Beach, Florida, dari kerusakan akibat Badai Michael. Setelah akhirnya pulih dari badai, saya kembali melakukan survei bawah air sebagai penyelam sukarelawan untuk Asosiasi Terumbu Buatan Pantai Meksiko (MBARA).

penyelam di terumbu karang memorial

A Commitment to Conservation

The waters of southern Florida are famous for their stunning coral reefs and vibrant marine life. This underwater paradise is not only a playground for recreational divers but also vital to many people who depend on it for their livelihoods, including dive instructors. 

Alex Fogg: The Lionfish King

Alex Fogg is known in the dive community for creating the largest invasive lionfish collection and outreach event in the world, the Emerald Coast Open, with tens of thousands of lionfish removed each year during the two-day event. Over the past decade he has personally harvested an unquantifiable number of invasive lionfish from North American waters. 

diver collecting lionfish

RumPowered Research

One of the Atlantic’s last truly wild places is offshore along the wave-exposed northern coast of East Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). 

Guest citizen scientist Amanda Endean works on cleaning the TCRF’s staghorn nurseries.