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Eight Big Cities with Great Scuba Diving

Believe it or not, there's scuba diving in Los Angeles, Lisbon, Miami and more.

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 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.

Real Life Mermaids or Manatees and Dugongs?

How to tell the difference between a manatee and a dugong and where to dive with these underwater creatures.

Two Florida Divers Discover Mammoth Bones from Ice Age

A portion of the Columbian Mammoth leg was recovered from the Peace River in Florida by two local fossil divers.

Reef Smart Releases New Dive Guide Book to Northwest Florida

Divers will find site briefings for 121 sites across six panhandle counties. Sixty scuba sites include in-depth access information, and 48 have original, 3D maps.

Retired U.S. Air Force Vessel Big Dawg Deployed as Artificial Reef in Florida Panhandle

Okaloosa County sinks 93-foot Big Dawg, a retired U.S. Air Force vessel in the Gulf of Mexico.

No Room For Invasive Species In The Florida Keys

For Earth Week, Rainbow Reef Dive Center in Key Largo hosted conservation dives and an Eco-Fair bringing together divers, brands and nonprofits for our oceans.