Recent News
Loves Park Dive Museum Surfaces
- Published 06/30/2008
The community of Love Park, Illinois has a new museum. Earlier this year the 1,800-square-foot Lockwood Pioneer Diving Museum, opened its doors to visitors.
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Poseidon Issues Product Safety Notice - Recall
- Published 06/26/2008
A potentially serious defect has been detected in a production run of the Poseidon W50 Bladder, used in conjunction with both the platform and BeSea model BCDs. This flaw deals with a weld in the internal air cell and it is possible that this weld could fail during a dive.
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Second Largest Hyperbaric Chamber to Open Soon in Milwaukee
- Published 06/25/2008
This August the Aurora St. Luke's Medical Centre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin will begin to treat patients in what will be North America's second largest hyperbaric chamber. Milwaukee is a major hub for Lake Michigan shipwreck divers.
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US Prez Election Comes Early and Deep in Florida Keys
- Published 06/23/2008
The US election will be held in November, but divers can get a jump on the big event by visiting the Florida Keys this July. The 'Reefpublicans' and the 'Democrabs' will be squaring off – underwater -- in a well orchestrated special Eel-Ection on July 12th in Looe Key.
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11% of North Americans Want to Go Diving
- Published 06/19/2008
TripAdvisor, a popular Internet website, recently released the results of its annual summer travel survey of more than 4,000 travelers worldwide.
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Featured Articles
Things to Do While Decompressing
- By Stephen Weir
- Published 06/25/2008
- Things to Do While Decompressing
- Unrated
Divers have a new toy for 2008.
Mermaid on the Rocks
- By Stephen Weir
- Published 04/15/2008
- Multimedia
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Has Diver Magazine Hatched a Trend?Swimming our way back to November 2007, Diver Magazine featured Malena Sharkey on the cover wearing nothing but her mermaid costume. The Florida-based diver has a unique moonlighting career as a mermaid model. The issue turned out to be extremely popular. Check out the latest Compari calendar and you will see that Diver has jumped onto the mermaid popularity wave long before it is even close to cresting.
Products Debuting in Scuba Shops Across North America
- By Stephen Weir
- Published 04/10/2008
- Diver News Archives
- Unrated
Equipment manufacturers have been busy all winter preparing for the new dive season. New female-friendly BCs, go-fast swim suits and new comfortable mask straps have already started turning up in dive shops across the continent.American Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps,
holder of six World records, models the new
Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit.
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- By Diver Magazine
- Published 01/1/2007
- Diver Books
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Recent Articles
More Underwater World Records….
- By Stephen Weir
- Published 06/19/2008
- Diving Records...This Month
- Unrated
And the records continue....
January 2008
- By Stephen Weir
- Published 01/10/2008
- Diving Records...This Month
- Unrated
Wrapping up the old year and looking forward to new records in 2008 for underwater firsts!
Dive Records to Round Out 2007
- By Stephen Weir
- Published 12/18/2007
- Diving Records...This Month
- Unrated
Ho Hum. Another month, another underwater world record.