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Fun With a Smart Phone
Compact digital cameras are fast disappearing in favour of smartphones. How about underwater photography?
An Old Encounter
The mighty St. Lawrence River, in its Quebec section, has swallowed hundreds of wrecks through the centuries, many of them still unvisited.
Al is Coming to Diving
You are about to enter another dimension—a scuba dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop…no, not the Twilight Zone…but the AI Zone! Yes, Artificial Intelligence is coming to scuba diving.
Preventing heat exhaustion
Beautiful sunny days have a way of coaxing us outside for adventuring, exploring, and diving. But it’s important to be mindful during your outdoor activities of the risks of heat-related illnesses— especially in the summer.
You Won't Impress Your Cave Instructor
I am so sorry for disappointing you!” My student apologized as he tossed his cave diving light into the gear crate and dropped his fins beside my truck.
THE PERFECT STORM
WORDS AND PHOTOS BY NICOLE WEBSTER
PROTECTING NAYAANO NIBIIMAANG GICHIGAMIIN
The Great Lakes Watershed
Phil Nuytten: DIVER
Industry luninaries remember diving legend Phil Nuytten, OC, OBC, DSc (hon), LLD (hon): magazine publisher, engineer, innovator, artist, businessman, eccentric, raconteur, magician, writer, husband, father... and-first and foremost-diver. (1941-2023)
Phil Nuytten - SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION ADDRESS
A final Soundings column from DIVER Publisher and Senior Editor Phil Nuytten, taken from his 1995 address to students in British Columbia
NEW DEEP CAVE DIVING RECORD SET IN CHINA
Renowned Chinese cave diver Han Ting surfaced after a 12-and-a-half-hour dive to 910.1 feet (77.4m) in Jiudun Cave, a new Asia deep cave diving record. The dive was a part of the Duan’s Juidun Cave Features (DJCF) project.
Once upon a time in Canada
If you have a passion for diving it can be fun to share it with the right partner. And if you’re single, you might start looking for that partner on a dating app. For Kirk Applejohn it seemed like a good plan.
Your First Liveaboard
One of my favourite experiences is when I am on one of our liveaboard adventures and there are first-time liveaboard guests.
Improve Your Equalization
All methods for equalizing your ears are simply ways to open the lower ends of your Eustachian tubes so air can enter. Most divers learn the Valsalva maneuver, but there are other equalization techniques divers may wish to try.
Solo Diving: Really? Is that safe?
Tech Diving
Toxic Gas Pockets!
Cave Diving
Does size matter?
Shark Diving
Diving With Your Smartphone
Smartphones are quickly entering the mainstream of camera technology, and many divers realize how powerful they are for underwater video and photography.
Mishaps and mistakes
In a perfect world, all our pictures would come out as masterpieces, and we would never make any mistakes. However, we are human, and shit happens.
Sonya Lee
SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR / DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER & DIRECTOR
Lost Shipwreck Ironton discovered
National Marine Sanctuary Researchers Discover a Lost Shipwreck in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Stories of Hope, Saving our Seas
FUTURE OCEANS
SO I MARRIED AN EXPLORER
Being married to a diver, explorer, and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society’s Explorer in Residence mightn’t be for everyone, but for Robert McClellan, the fear of losing your life partner is assuaged by trust and genuine respect
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT ΤΗΕ CRYSTAL CAVES OF ABACO
Divers navigate the glass ceiling of The Bahamas’ most impressive cave system, where Crystal Palace meets Fortress of Solitude
JEWEL OF THE REEF
As divers traverse the globe in search of adventure, respecting and supporting local communities can stimulate ocean conservation at a grassroots level
THE VANISHING
Three quarters of today’s animal species will be extinct within 300 years. Loss of even the smallest marine species affects an entire ecosystem. Extinction of multiple species could transform all our oceans forever.