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This article, while specific to one dive site near Seattle, illustrates how scuba myths can get entrenched and how, with a few phone calls you can help fellow divers. The Edmonds Underwater Park (more formerly know as the Bruce Higgins Underwater Park) is located not far from Seattle, Washington and just north of the Edmonds [...]

Here are our @ScubaGadget Tweets you may have missed from the Northwest Dive and Travel Expo 2010 held May 22 and 23 at the Tacoma convention Center. We will have a full report in a few days. More exhibits, nice mix of travel and equipment vendors. Seemed less crowded then last year. Numbers after the [...]

Scuba Gadget reporters will be reporting live from the show floor at the 2010 Northwest Dive & Travel Expo in Tacoma on Saturday, May 22, 2010 via Twitter (@scubaGadet) and the Scuba Gadget blog. If you see us at the show, say hello and give us tip on what product or service you think should [...]

Pete Naylor’s awe inspiring photo at the right does a better job than any words I can conjure up to illustrate why we are passionate about diving, more passionate about diving cold water, claim that B.C. diving is the best in world at any temperature, and why diving with Porpoise Bay Charters will likely be [...]

If you have been to either of the first two NW Dive Expo’s you know it is a phenomenal and world class dive event. But Rick Stratton and his great team at the Dive News Network on not resting on their laurels. This year the show is not only bigger and more diverse, there is [...]

A new dive shop has arrived to patch the hole left by the failure of Smokey Point Dive Center and the Underwater Sports closing of their Everett Washington store. We stopped in for a look and found Evergreen Diver Service to be a very friendly, clean and moderately sized dive shop. Their main brands are [...]

Scuba Schools International (SSI) today and National Geographic are sponsoring a traveling speaker series that kicks off with Nat Geo photographer Paul Niklen. Niklen grew up in a small and remote Inuit community on Baffin Island with no radio, no TV and no telephone. Here are a few of the Paul Niklen events scheduled. For [...]

It’s the tail end of Harbor seal pup birthing time in the Puget Sound in Washington State and perhaps in your area, too. If you frequent the beaches, as we do, you’ve probably seen a seal pup resting peacefully on the shore. The resting pups are often so still and quiet they can seem injured or [...]

Even if you are an avid NatGeo nerd, you will still find plenty of remarkable facts you did not know about the GPO (giant Pacific octopus) in the new book Super Suckers The Giant Pacific Octopus and Other Cephalopods of the Pacific Coast by James A. Cosgrove & Neil McDaniel. The first lesson the book offered [...]

Like Port Hardy (see article) Quadra Island diving is one of those dives you must dive before you die. The best image of diving here is to image a weightless flight along the cliffs of an alien planet completely covered with life in all the colors of the best tropical dives. A couple of our [...]