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For The Love Of Sharks: What I Learned During a Week at ‘Shark School’

During a six-day shark Field School in Miami, learning how to perform a shark biopsy and draw its blood (for science) turns this diver into a stronger ocean advocate.

What it’s Like to Tag a Shark

Here’s what it takes to tag 22 sharks in two days, and how shark tagging helps scientists protect them.

Oceanographic Magazine Launches Award for Women in Underwater Photography

The new award aims to spotlight women in dive photography in an effort to encourage gender equity in the industry.

How Creativity is Pulling One Galápagos Scuba Shop through COVID

Scuba Iguana is eyeing Ecuadorian divers as it partners with other local businesses to weather the ongoing storm.

New Scuba Diving License Plate Launches in Texas

A portion of sales will support City of Houston Underwater Mariners, the nonprofit dive club behind the design and launch of the new Texas scuba license plate.

Summer Reads for Scuba Divers

Great books to read this summer, from armchair adventures to dive field guides.

Scuba Diving Lizards Use Rebreather-Like Bubble to Breathe Underwater

The lizards, which are several species of anoles, have evolved to breathe underwater by recirculating air into a bubble that clings to their snouts for minutes at a time.

What it Takes to Make a Shipwreck Playground

Volunteers scout and procure funding to continually add wrecks to Shipwreck Park, a five-square-mile underwater playground in Pompano Beach.

This Florida Art Nonprofit Will Make You a 3D Reef Sculpture for Any Occasion

Anyone can commission a statute from the Ocean Rescue Alliance, which will sink it off the Florida coast to aid reef restoration.