A lot of divers I know start taking decongestants a few days before a dive trip. Fearing a sinus problem will be a real headache (no pun intended) while diving, they often take Sudafed to dry up their sinuses. However, thanks to a revision in the USA Patriot Act, buying Sudafed just got a lot tougher. In fact, you can't buy it over the counter anymore.
The renewed USA Patriot Act, signed into law in March, includes the "Combat Meth Act," which is aimed at reducing production of methamphetamines, made from pseudophedrine (a major ingredient in Sudafed). In 2004, Sudafed ...
One of my New Year's Resolutions for 2007 is to take more photos. I'm going to do this with the small point-and-shoot I own currently, but I'm very seriously considering an upgrade. This weekend, in fact, I was at Best Buy, checking out camera systems. One of the cameras I saw was Casio's EX-Z1000, a minuscule camera with a gigantic LCD screen. As I was handling the camera, two hippies came up to me and started looking, too. "It's small," I said. "It's gotten good reviews online," one of the hippies replied. If nothing else, Casio seems to be getting ...
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Not every underwater shot that the pros squeeze off is spectacular, of course. We only see the best ones. If you're aching to create shots like the pros, then maybe you should check out Jack Connick's Digicam Tips. Purveyor of Fantasea housings and a fine shooter himself, Jack has compiled a digicam Q&A from his mailbag.
Providing tips from how to light a wreck, to how to achieve those cool black-background effect, Jack explains things clearly yet concisely. If you're brand new to shooting underwater, you might not understand all the jargon Jack uses, but if you're gunning to take ...
A few weeks ago, we caught wind that some of Truk's wrecks were leaking toxic chemicals. Facing the two-pronged attack of both time and dynamite fishers, there have been accusations that the wrecks have been leaching toxic chemicals and threatening the poor island's coastline. Is it true?
Well, the eloquent and observant Jack Connick just returned from Truk. Enjoying a glorious week of diving, which included 20 dives on some of the world's most famous wrecks, Jack noted that several of the old wrecks do, indeed, appear to be deteriorating (thanks, possibly, to overzealous divers?), but there's nary a mention of ...
It ain't always about fish. Sometimes a beautiful reef-scape is why divers dive.
Radio DJ captured this gorgeous shot of a healthy carpet of coral...um...somehwere. (I can't be more specific, since he didn't tag it with a location.) However, there's an anemone fish in the yellow-ish soft coral in the lower ...