For more than 40 years, DAN has been here to help divers, dive professionals, and health care providers stay safer and better prepared. With its vision of making every dive accident- and injury-free, DAN Medical Services offers an array of essential services trusted by millions of divers worldwide. DAN’s new video highlights some of the ways DAN is here to help divers — before, during, and after emergencies…

Wrecks, walls, and worms all feature prominently in British Columbia’s high octane, highly adventurous Discovery Passage
Words and Photography by Russell Clark
Row and Be Damned, a signature site of BC, known for its lack of bare rock. Photo: Russell Clark
As Editor of DIVER magazine, one of the first questions I get asked by people is “where’s your favourite place to dive?” I think the question is a little unfair, like choosing a favourite movie or song, different dive sites and locations suit different moods and adventures…

Words and Photography by Tiare Boyes 
Photo: Tirare Boyes
Docks are easily overlooked historical markers, reflecting the individual communities that have used them. They have provided an essential link between land and sea, as well as shelter for mariners. Docks also have provided an important place for social connection between isolated neighbours…

By Steve Lewis
Should we consider instructors wearing full face masks with one-way coms? Photos courtesy: Craig Mainprize / Ocean Reef UK & Malta
I was blind to the possibilities…and all the time it was staring me in the face. Every few circuits around the sun, some well-meaning public-relations maven sends out a press-release notifying the dive industry of yet another innovative technology or wonderfully-conceived piece of dive kit that will “Change the Way We Dive”…

Words and Image by Maxwel Hohn
Do you have a fondness for complex tasks and enjoy being underwater? Photo: Maxwel Hohn
When people think about commercial divers, they might picture a hardhat diver on an offshore oil rig, hundreds of feet below the waves, welding together steel structures and pipes…