Selected Articles From Previous Issues of Diver Magazine

November 2005 Close Encounters with a mild-mannered mollusc Text and photography by Fred Bavendam "While I had been clearing my mask, the octopus had begun to drag the strobe, still attached to the camera and a second strobe, towards a cave at the base of the ledge. For more than five minutes we grappled. The octopus was so strong I couldn't pull the strobe free using force alone."

December 2005 Diving the Edmund Fitzgerald Thirty years later the Edmund Fitzgerald has lost little, if any, of its mystique. Immortalized in song by Canadian Gordon Lightfoot, the loss of this Great Lakes ore carrier is a story retold in haunting lyrics: "And every man knew, as the Captain did, too, T'was the witch of November come stealing...... The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times. For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald..." In this exclusive feature, publisher Phil Nuytten recalls his unforgettable experience...

February 2006 Deep Sea IMAX Text by Neil McDaniel Imagine an underwater camera the size of a chest freezer, that weighs 1,400 pounds (635kg), requires two cameramen to operate, and yet shoots only three minutes of film at a time. Sounds absurd, doesn't it? But that's the reality of shooting IMAX 3D underwater and last September/October I had a front row seat on the action. It was my good fortune to work on the soon-to-be-released production - Deep Sea 3D - as part of the crew here on the British Columbia coast.

March 2006 100 Years of Sponge diving Text and photography by Phil Nuytten "Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if there were no sponges." Tarpon Springs celebrates a century submerged.