Quick and Easy rEvo front mounted oxygen manual add valve (MAV)
May 7, 2010 – 2:33 pm | No Comment

I really like the rEvo, its sleek and clean design is well thought out, a pleasure to dive, and even easier to maintain. The one thing that bothers me is that the oxygen add valve. …

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Cave Diver gets electrocuted underwater and survives to tell about it
May 18, 2008 – 10:41 am | One Comment
Cave Diver gets electrocuted underwater and survives to tell about it

Cave diver, Marc Laukien, was diving Madison Blue Cave system in Florida when we was electrocuted underwater. He was able to complete his dive and make it to the surface where they exited the water …

Hugh Bradner, UC’s inventor of wetsuit, dies
May 12, 2008 – 9:14 am | No Comment
Hugh Bradner, UC’s inventor of wetsuit, dies

Hugh Bradner, a UC physicist whose love of the ocean and curiosity about everything in it led him to revolutionize diving by inventing the neoprene wetsuit, died at his home in San Diego at the …

Aquatic Life Break: Thai Freshwater Giant Stingray
May 2, 2008 – 1:17 pm | No Comment
Aquatic Life Break: Thai Freshwater Giant Stingray

This 14ft monster was caught in a Thai river after an extensive search by a biologist looking to study them. They have a 15inch arrow-shaped barb on their tail that can penetrate thru bone. They …

Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans: Google Ocean
May 1, 2008 – 1:10 pm | No Comment
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans: Google Ocean

This is pretty cool if they do it, it will make finding new shipwrecks a whole lot easier. But like Google Mars, I’m not exactly sure how they are going to sell ad space on …

Shark attack off Solana Beach (San Diego, CA) kills man
April 25, 2008 – 8:44 am | No Comment

This is awful but I hope people don’t go shark crazy again.
A Coast Guard helicopter is being sent to assist Solana Beach officials after a fatal shark attack was reported there this morning. A man …

Scripps Institution of Oceanography selling naming rights of new marine species to the highest bidder.
April 7, 2008 – 12:50 pm | One Comment
Scripps Institution of Oceanography selling naming rights of new marine species to the highest bidder.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography will be selling the scientific naming rights for newly described marine species to the highest bidder.
Scientific names for species are the generally two-word Greek/Latin names that are used to identify a …

Woman Diving At Sunken Ship Rescued
April 7, 2008 – 9:36 am | No Comment
Woman Diving At Sunken Ship Rescued

From what I’ve heard unofficially, this woman was finishing her Advanced Open Water course and during her second dive on the Yukon, something went wrong and she was unconscious on the surface. The life guards …