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https://www.bsee.gov/newsroom/latest-news/statements-and-releases/press-releases/bsee-issues-offshore-energy BSEE has completed an Environmental ImpacT Statement on the fate "decommissioning" of offshore oil and gas platforms and related infrastructure off Southern California. In the document...

https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/the-dive-review-1235694419/ Seems the plot is a familiar one, just this time in a cave

I seem to be reading a lot of treasure hunting/shipwreck diving books this winter. Doing so is a great activity for passing long nights of an Alaska winter. I recently continued my discovery of books related to Florida treasure seekers with Randy Lathrop's A Treasured Life: Surrenduring to the...

I just finished reading Hunt for Gold by John Fine. The book is a series of vignettes that primarily focus on Bob "Frogfoot" Weller. Fine presents a biographical sketch of Weller's life starting with his youth, continuing through his tours of duty in the US Navy, his techical career, on...

After responding to a fire in which his fiance and fellow firefighter died, Matt leaves the force to go tramping about on his boat, First Light. A couple of years later, behind on the payments and running short on funds, Nck returns to his boyhood home in Dartmouth, England. While working...

Plot: A group of scientist trapped in an underwater lab realize the only way to escape is to walk across the seafloor to an abandoned platform only to discover they are being stalked by monsters. Filming in Liquid Space: The Challenges of Making Fox's "Underwater." - LaughingPlace.com and one...

Lots of speculation on other threads about causes, etc, and rhe expressions of loss that many of my friends feel compelled me to express my reflections of the Conception in the larger context of my diving in Socal many years ago. Hope those with troubled spirits find peace Covediver's Log...

Few details are available Marine scientist dies during dive in Southeast Alaska

I was scanning the offerings on scuba fiction at Amazon recently and came across Demon's Treasure by Shane Barker. The blurb, like most blurbs, is designed to catch your attention; this one did that "A fortune in gold and silver lies buried in the wreckage of a lost treasure galleon...

Article from Outside magazine explains the trend of dive watch max depth getting deeper. I diagree with the authors assertion that a 100m dive watch is all that is needed for diving, although few people use one anymorr Why Are Dive Watches Built to Go Deeper than Nuclear Submarines?

Gunshots and Gumbo on the Gulf Back in the early 1990s, I had an opportunity to teach at Dauphin Island Sea Lab at the entrance to Mobile Bay. Right next door was Fort Gaines, which with Fort Pickens on the east side of the Bay comprised two forts which played an important role in the Civil...

Henry Kaiser: The Great Explorer | Premier Guitar Henry Kaiser bought his first guitar and slide the day he heard Sonny Sharrock, and immediately set off on his 45-year career as an improviser—playing on more than 300 albums, performing and recording around the world, and establishing musical...

The Final Voyage of the Sea Explorer by Douglas Boren is a young adult (YA) novel that tells the story of Josh and Jimmy, two recent high school graduates embarking on a week-long live aboard cruise in the Bahamas. Their diving formerly confined to inland lakes of cold water and low visibility...

The Right Way to Read a Dive Watch "By the late 1980s, the advent of the digital dive computer sounded the death knell for the traditional dive watch. Nowadays, nary a diver on a boat can be seen wearing an analog watch, despite its continued benefit as a backup device or for a navigational aid...

The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver | Atlas Obscura

Seven Dive Watch Myths Debunked Some of these are classics and have made their way into the proverbs of diving

Many divers attribute their interest in diving to Sea Hunt Covediver's Log: Sea Hunt, Mike Nelson, and the Popularizing of Scuba Diving Was the show's influnce a cause or effect of greater trends in underwater recreation? A short essay explores the relationship.

Latest missive about old time beach diving in California Covediver's Log: Southern California Beach Diving--Getting in is Half the Fun beach versus boat or both.

Lisa Vandergriff, a well-known and respected instructor in Alaska, passed away at her home in Kona last week. She certified numerous folks in the Last Frontier and continued her avid diving with her husband Jerry and friends at Kona Diving Company after moving to the bid island a few years ago...

I see a lot of these stories. This is the first that states while the show did not motivate the author to learn to scuba dive, it was none-the-less an inspiration and motivation. Nice story My debt to ‘Sea Hunt,’ and to my dad