Scuba Diving & Adventure Sports Guide
Joe 
Updated August 27, 2022 This is the forty-fifth in a series that introduces and describes the various dive services and sites for worldwide liveaboard dive safaris. This one focuses on the best liveaboard destinations for advanced divers. For other “Best” reviews of liveaboards and destinations, go to “Best Liveaboards & Destinations Lists” on the top … Read more
Updated August 16, 2023 Ultimate Scuba Diving Equipment Checklist Rationale – How to Use this List This scuba diving equipment checklist is a long one that includes most items of gear you might conceivably want to include for basic recreational diving. It is not to suggest that everything described here is necessary, but it can … Read more
Chumphon Pinnacle Batfish – Chumphon, Thailand (Courtesy of TripAdvisor) Updated November 21, 2022 This is the one hundred and thirty-eighth in a series of reviews of the best dive resort locations around the world. In this post, the focus is on Chumphon, Thailand. In addition to this series on dive resort locations, the best … Read more
Updated September 27, 2021 My friend, Don Degener, spent several seasons in Nome, Alaska dredging for gold, much like the Pomrenkes and Emily and others on the Bering Sea Gold TV series. One day, July 22, 2012, he had just finished a dive and was climbing the ladder back onto his dredging barge, the Maverick. … Read more
”It’s immense,” Degener said of the Kursk, which was photographed in the Barents Sea. Updated June 24, 2023 I met my best friend Don Degener when we were in first grade at Graden School in Parkville, Missouri in 1958. We crossed paths occasionally for some years after that playing together at school and in … Read more