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Well, it’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. We watched Mythbusters last night (I love that show!) which featured a two hour episode on de-bunking shark myths. Here is a synopsis of what we learned:

Sharks DO respond negatively to magnets unless they are hungry and there is the smell of fish in the water. Then [...]

While prepping for a recent dive, a mom and her young daughter approached me. The mother went on to brag that are child, who looked to be about eight years old, had just done her first scuba dive. My first thought was that it would have been nice to get those first hundred dives under [...]

Call me fussy but I, like you, find the new airline baggage policies annoying. Paying for extra baggage! Here are some things you should know about these new policies with the three major U.S. airlines:
American Airlines: If you bought your domestic tickets on or after June 15, 2008, expect to pay $15 each way for [...]

REVIEW: Like its namesake marine animal, APS Mantaray fins (and its older twin the Deep Outdoors 6-Gill) are unique among an ocean of dive fin choices. In most dive shops the fin choices are seemingly split into only two sub-species, the paddle fin and the split fin. Mantarays are of one the few fins that [...]

Aqualung has issued two recalls for their regulators. The Apeks TX/ATX/XTX 2ND stages which have not yet undergone an authorized annual service could have been incorrectly assembled (more info at http://www.aqualung.com/us/content/view/285/). Also, the TITAN DIN regulators whose serial number is lower than 6062501 or TITAN/CONSHELF DIN adaptors that are marked 300 BAR MAX which can be [...]

The new “Swim With Gentle Giants” program at the Georgia Aquarium which allows swimmers and divers to enter the tank with the whale sharks is being criticized by some marine experts. The LA Times reported that Jean-Michel Cousteau and George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural [...]

The Swedish dive gear manufacturer Poseidon announced that they have discovered a manufacturing error on the inner bladder on their W50 wings that can cause the seam that holds bladder halves together to break. They have issued a recall of bladders marked with batch number 5445 that were sold between September 2007 and June 10, [...]

Two stops on the DiveRite Tech Tour 2008 are coming to the Puget Sound. Saturday, July 19, 2008 at the Les Davies Pier, Tacoma and Sunday, July 20, 2008 at the T-Dock, Mukilteo
Demo’s run approximately 9-4. Try out a Dive-X Scooter, Dive a Bonica HDDV Video camera and Get footage of you and your buddies, [...]

While the images of sun drenched Caribbean seas, colorful coral and an abundance of pelagic sea life may stir fantasies of diving in exotic lands, you may not realize the price such beauty has taken on the environment. Your beachfront resort may have replaced mangroves. Your hot shower in the Serengeti may be using precious [...]