No matter where you go scuba diving, you’re swimming into a zoo of tiny crustaceans called copepods, the most common animals in the world.
Beth McCrea
Surprise your buddies with the perfect picnic for divers with our top picks for a fun, scuba-themed day out of the water
Whether you love solo travel or are just lacking a dive buddy, the extra fees often facing lone travelers are a drag. Here are our top tips for traveling alone and avoiding the dreaded single supplement.
Our inner geek, always fiending for new scuba gear squealed with delight after recently stumbling on ReefBox, the world’s first subscription box geared toward divers.
Whether you’re swimming with big animals, macro critters, or in coral gardens, you’re also diving into an entire world of microscopic plants called phytoplankton.
Forget the boring, classic postage stamps everyone uses for their mail. You can buy ocean stamps online that showcase your love of the sea. Here are nine of our favorites from around the world.
Whether due to injury, money, time, illness, or off-season, there’ll likely be some months you’re landlocked. Here are 10 tips on what to do when you can’t dive.
Forget the traditional Valentine’s Day presents and make February 14th a day your love won’t forget with one of these romantic gifts for your dive valentine.
An open-water dive instructor driving along the beach noticed large, dark shapes swimming close to shore and was shocked to discover mantas in Florida.
In 2015 and 2016, Palau suffered from both an El Niño and a severe drought. The combination wreaked havoc on the famous population of golden jellyfish at Jellyfish Lake.
Diving can be especially hard on your hair. Here are our top eight tips to help tame your diver’s mane, leaving your locks lustrous instead of a dry, frizzy mess.
One of the planet’s most diverse environments once contained 220,000 acres of oyster reefs. Now decimated, young scuba divers and students from the Billion Oyster Project are working to restore it.
With the holidays just around the corner, these five delightful dive reads for young children can make the perfect present for the ocean-curious youngsters on your list.
With Halloween fast approaching, who doesn’t like a scary story? The books included here are enthralling examples of haunting dive reads, and feature stories that will remain with you long after Halloween is over.
Meet the shark activist who draws “Oh, Dakuwaqa!,” a series of cartoons that’s delighting scuba divers and scientists while helping change people’s misconceptions about sharks.
Forget all the other lists you’ve seen. This ultimate dive trip prep and packing list is the only checklist you’ll ever need to plan the perfect dive trip.
There’s usually no harm in a little white lie, but these 10 lies scuba divers tell themselves can inflict some serious damage.
Revel in this trove of nine enchantingly fanciful and marine-based collective nouns, including the charmingly named smack of jellyfish.