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Welcome to the New Year, a year full of possibilities and, hopefully, diving. Scuba Diver magazine continues to go from strength to strength. The GO Diving Show in the UK in March promises to be even bigger and better in 2023, with more exhibitors, outstanding guest speakers from around the world and fantastic visitor participation activities. Our North America edition goes from quarterly to bi-monthly, and we have a new mobile-friendly platform for the online digital version of all three magazines.

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Wakatobi

A state-of-the-art dive school and Southern Great Barrier Reef scuba diving and spearfishing operator has opened this summer in a popular Queensland tourist town – and they are here to change the game.

Diveplanit continues its upwards trajectory with the acquisition of the dive travel portfolio of New Zealand travel agency, travel&co.

Scubaspa Indonesia

Travellers to the beautiful Cook Islands will be the winners from the announcement in early December 2022 that Jetstar is launching nonstop flights between Sydney and Rarotonga from 29 June 2023*.

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF), in partnership with K2 Studios, has just released a set of lesson plans to help middle school students dive into a new IMAX film, Ocean Odyssey.

The Aggressor Adventures fleet has expanded in the Egyptian Red Sea with the arrival of the luxurious Red Sea Aggressor III.

Q: I was recently diagnosed with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). I’m seeing a physical therapist to resolve the vertigo and move the otoliths (crystals) out of my inner-ear canals. If my symptoms are resolved, and I am not experiencing vertigo, do you know of any pressurerelated issues concerning BPPV that I should be aware of while diving

family dive adventures

Monthly round-up of news from our SSI dive centres and professionals www.divessi.com

Mares

How many divers love to travel overseas for a dive holiday? How many can afford to do this too often? Jayne Jenkins has somewhere to satisfy a love of muck on the doorstep

Mike Ball Dive Expeditions

Hervey Bay Dive Centre

If you like ‘big stuff’, Palau is the capital. One of the best places in the world to dive with sharks, mantas and big schools of pelagic fish, including jacks, barracuda, snapper and bumphead parrotfish. Diveplanit Travel’s Deborah Dickson-Smith shares a few reasons to add Palau to your dive bucket list

Palau is on every diver’s ‘Big Stuff Bucket List’, but just because it’s on your list, doesn’t mean that it is within your budget. So, what is the best way to dive Palau without breaking the bank?

Diveplanit Travel

Mike Bartick heads for Cozumel, Mexico, in search of more weird-and-wonderful blackwater subjects

Siladen Resort & Spa

Alex Mustard explains how to get that ‘wow factor’ from Big Scene Wide Angle

Sealife

Encounters with large marine creatures are always special, but few are as endearing and downright awesome as being in the presence of the giant oceanic manta ray (Manta birostris), as Don Silcock explains

Suunto

PT Hirschfield chats to scuba instructor and co-founder of South Australia’s Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries (EMS) Carl Charter

Scuba Diver Australia and New Zealand has teamed up with Aliqaum Kids in giving a forum for the voice of the new generation. This is not about science or conservation, this is going right back to the fundamentals of why we love to explore the ocean. In order to take an interest and care about anything in the ocean world, firstly our kids need to have fun and enjoy the oceans - the place which one day they will be the custodians.

Scuba Clinic

New Zealand Diving

While diving is an enjoyable and relatively safe activity, divers should never forget that it involves using life-support equipment to venture into an environment that’s not conducive to human survival.

Dan World

Technical diver Kurt Storms pays a visit to the final resting place of the Salem Express, which tragically took the lives of hundreds of people when it sank late at night enroute back from Saudi Arabia

Dive Rite

Volivoli

Underwater Sports Diving Centre

Go Diving 2023

Scuba Diver North America Editor Walt Stearns makes a memorable passage through the Flores Island group on the Arenui luxury liveaboard;

Works With Different Browsers

Scuba Diving

Dive Smarter

Nigel Marsh takes a closer look at the fascinating and unique fishes divers can see Down Under

Mark Evans: One of the biggest developments in the world of diving this year was the news that Apple had added recreational scuba diving to its latest product, the Apple Watch Ultra, via the Oceanic+ app.

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Prodivers

Conservation Corner

Arenui

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