For beginning, newly certified divers, planning your first dive vacation is beyond exciting. You went through a lot to learn diving theory and all the…
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Category: Diving News
Professional Underwater Photographer… What’s it like?
Underwater Photographer: Scuba Diver’s Dream Job Let me start out by saying underwater photography is only part of my job. Howard Hall, Norbert Wu, David…
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Hawaii Reopens for Dive Travel
After two frustrating years enduring questionable “science” and outright hostility, I am thrilled to learn that Hawaii will once again be open to divers. I guess it has been for a while, if required testing and mask mandates don’t bother you. However, beginning on 3/26, that’s over.
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DUI Zip Seals on Viking Drysuit
It’s been probably 5 years since I sent my DUI CF200x drysuit to DUI to be retrofitted with Zip Seals. Since then, I’ve made about…
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Project Baseline
In recent months, I’ve had the good fortune to be introduced to Project Baseline. Project Baseline is a not-for-profit, conservation organization that has involved thousands…
View More Project BaselinePacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber Fund
Monterey Divers: Please help keep the Pacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber in business I dive in and around Monterey fairly frequently. I have for decades and I…
View More Pacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber FundPADI Tec40 Course, Lake Tahoe
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to push your diving to the next level, PADI Tec40 is the first step beyond recreational diving. The…
View More PADI Tec40 Course, Lake TahoeSCUBA Divers Left Behind in Florida
http://news.yahoo.com/scuba-divers-left-behind-florida-172315719.html Scuba divers left behind in Florida It seems like every other year or so, we read this headline about SCUBA divers somewhere in the…
View More SCUBA Divers Left Behind in FloridaAlameda Man Killed in Monterey Diving Accident
http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_18738019 Another diver lost his life in Monterey last Saturday. This time it was a 65 year old Alameda man who’d “recently gotten back…
View More Alameda Man Killed in Monterey Diving AccidentEradicating Invasive Lionfish Destroying Caribbean Reefs
Of all the environmental tragedies that I can be upset about, one stands out as unique and potentially more devastating than many that are much…
View More Eradicating Invasive Lionfish Destroying Caribbean ReefsSCUBA Diver’s Body Recovered in Lake Tahoe After Almost 20 Years
[wp_geo_map] http://www.rgj.com/article/20110801/NEWS/110801045/Sheriff-Body-found-Lake-Tahoe-could-from-1990s-accident If there’s one dive in Lake Tahoe that required solid buoyancy skills, the Rubicon Wall is that dive. A diver’s body was…
View More SCUBA Diver’s Body Recovered in Lake Tahoe After Almost 20 YearsEdmund Fitzgerald: Most Famous of Great Lakes Shipwrecks
http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald-36/ I remember hearing the Gordon Lightfoot song when I was about ten or eleven years old. It’s kind of burned into my memory so…
View More Edmund Fitzgerald: Most Famous of Great Lakes ShipwrecksMore Gold From the Atocha
Story: http://news.yahoo.com/florida-divers-treasure-famed-wreck-151015129.html If there’s one thing that I believe all divers have in common it’s that somewhere deep in the recesses of our subconscious minds, there’s a…
View More More Gold From the AtochaHappy Independence Day from JoeScuba
It’s the fourth of July, and I want to wish everyone, especially my fellow divers, a happy and safe Independence Day. It’s a day for…
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When I originally created the JoeScuba blog, I had several informal goals. First, managing a blog is a fun way to stay connected between dive…
View More Join JoeScubaWhile I’m on the Subject of Strange Sightings Underwater…
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View More While I’m on the Subject of Strange Sightings Underwater…Blanket Octopus
I’ve sure never seen one of these! That’s one of the coolest things about scuba diving. On land, you don’t just run out into the…
View More Blanket OctopusIs my SCUBAPRO Titanium regulator compatible with the use of Nitrox or pure oxygen?
I personally love titanium for a regulator material, but it generally isn’t a good choice for tech divers due to incompatibility with high concentrations of…
View More Is my SCUBAPRO Titanium regulator compatible with the use of Nitrox or pure oxygen?Support the USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber
Chamber Day 2011 Catalina Chamber Day is Wednesday, May 4. All proceeds support the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber. Cost is $90, plus $30 for food and…
View More Support the USC Catalina Hyperbaric ChamberJoe SCUBA Diving with a Great White Shark
I guess if I knew the shark was behind me when I posed for the picture, I might have been a little nervous… Yeah right!…
View More Joe SCUBA Diving with a Great White SharkNot a Good Weekend for Divers in CA
http://www.kcra.com/r/27509520/detail.html Two more divers lost their lives last Saturday while diving in California. This pair was part of a group of four divers doing some…
View More Not a Good Weekend for Divers in CACarson High Students Lose Lives SCUBA Diving in Monterey
http://www.mynews4.com/story.php?id=40700&n=122 Two kids lost their lives diving in Monterey over the weekend. Details are limited but indications are that they ran out of air. I…
View More Carson High Students Lose Lives SCUBA Diving in MontereyAqualung Airsource 3 Review
For recreational diving, I’m a big fan of what’s becoming known as the “safe second” stage BCD inflator/alternate air source. I very recently switched from…
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Read Article I read that 22 tons of dead fish have so far been removed from that harbor, with who knows how many more. Amazing…
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