Diving Florida’s Springs

Florida is home to the world’s largest concentration of freshwater springs — the Florida Geological Survey has identified more than 1,000 statewide. There are about 33 first-magnitude springs discharging at least 100 cubic feet (2.8 cubic meters) of water per second.

Rebreather divers enter the Little River Springs cave system

Lateral Training for Injury Prevention

Lateral training targets the abductors, adductors, and stabilizers — muscles that people often overlook in traditional workouts. Training in the frontal plane with these exercises helps correct muscular imbalances and enhances overall strength and control.

Lateral Leg Raise

Humpback Whales in Rurutu

Each year humpback whales migrate from their feeding grounds in the Southern Ocean to the Austral Islands, where they use the sheltered waters around Rurutu as a calving and nursing area. Observers there can document the whales’ natural behaviors with minimal disturbance.

Humpback Whales

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

Exploring the Avelo System

As the field of recreational diving continues to evolve, DAN remains committed to being at the forefront of safety and scientific advancement. The purpose of this article is to educate […]

The Avelo System is a reimagining of buoyancy in scuba diving.

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.