_Scuba Diving_ Photo Editor heads to the Backscatter Digital Shootout at the Little Cayman Beach Resort

How did an underwater photographer get this photo of a Pacific black dragonfish (_Idiacanthus antrostomus_)? He was part of a project documenting deep-sea animals found in Monterey Bay, California. Jason Bradley partnered with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and Moss Landing Marine Labs to gain special access to both live and collected deep-sea organisms, to reveal what lives in these distant alien habitats.

What's it like to lull a shark to sleep? Cristina Zenato: I could pet it for hours — I love my sharks that much. Sometimes I imagine taking one home and petting it while reading a book on the couch. Find out more about sharks on scubadiving.com.

Thanks to the Submerge with SCUBAPRO tour, fans of SCUBAPRO dive equipment enjoyed exclusive opportunities to try out their latest and greatest gear at five great Florida diving destinations: Jupiter, Pompano, Islamorada, Venice and Crystal River.

Another amazing destination is due to be added to the already impressive list of diving destinations that are visited by the Siren Fleet, this time it’s the must see destination of Fiji.

The two-week Florida roadshow brought together SCUBAPRO gear and experts, Scuba Diving’s ScubaLab director John Brumm and other magazine staffers, and dozens of divers, some of whom had traveled from as far away as Jacksonville, Florida, and Mississippi to check out ScubaPro’s Meridian and Galileo Luna dive computers, A700 and C300 regs, GO BCs and Seawing Nova and Gorilla fins.

The award-winning dive center is ramping up its multi-lingual instruction offerings.

The Submerge with SCUBAPRO gear demo tour hit Pompano Beach on May 9, offering free equipment trials, informative gear presentations, discounted boat dives with Pompano Dive Center, a tasty barbecue lunch and all the good times participants could handle.

Casey Key is a barrier island at the southern end of Sarasota County, in Nokomis, Florida. The exclusive island is home to the popular Nokomis Public Beach, which is where SCUBAPRO and Florida Underwater Sports hosted the fourth Submerge With SCUBAPRO event.