SCUBA DIVING INDUSTRY™ MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 2025
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ADVERTISERS 2 & 3 Aggressor Adventures 7 Shearwater Dive Computers 8 Aggressor Adventures 9 Books by Dan Orr/Best Publishing 10 Dive BVI’s 50th Anniversary 11 Divers Alert Network (DAN) 13 Alex Brylske’s Book by Reef Smart 15 Bahamas Ministry of Tourism 16 Fort Young Hotel Dive Resort 19 Coltri Compressors 21 The Dive Shop @ Cape Eleuthera 23 Deep Blue Adventures Travel 25 All Star Liveaboards 26 Barefoot Cay Resort, Roatan 28 Best Publishing Scuba Books 29 Blue Force Fleet Liveaboards 30 ScubaWeather.com 31 SeaCure Custom Mouthpieces 32 Stream2Sea Reef Safe Products 33 Wayne B. Brown Book 33 SSI/Scuba Schools International 35 Fog-X Mask Defogging Film 36 Clear Story Coach 36 Make A Di ff erence Challenge 36 Scuba Show 2026 East & West 37 Sea Experience, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 38 NAUI’s 65th Anniversary 40 Dive Industry Young Professionals 41 2026 Dive Show Schedule 44 Clines 3rd Q Dive Survey Results 45 Neal Watson’s Bimini Scuba 46 ScubaRadio 48 Visit Cayman Islands | ISDHF 49 Diveplanit Travel Planners 51 Explorer Ventures Liveaboards 52 DEMA Association 53 Level Up, Marketing Minutes & From Behind the Counter Podcasts 54 2024/25 Article Index
PAGE 6 SAFETY Dan Orr: An Incident in Scuba Diving is an Accident that Didn’t Happen PAGE 5 FROM THE PUBLISHER Jerry Beaty Was Right - It All Starts in the Dive Shop PAGE 10 TRAINING Al Hornsby: Store Policies and Staff Training – Is Everyone on the Same Page? PAGE 12 ECO PRO Alex Brylske, Ph.D.: Why the Scuba Industry
PAGE 20 TRAVEL David Prichard & Lily Mak: Dive Travel Planning Checklist for Groups PAGE 24 BUSINESS EDU Cathryn Castle Garcia: 7 Books That Will Supercharge Your Dive Business in 2026
PAGE 38 BUSINESS EDU
Shelli Hendricks, Ph.D.: How to Find a Mentor that’s Right for YOU!
PAGE 39 RETAILING
PAGE 42 TRAINING Kramer Wimberley: Inspiring a Generation of Ocean Advocates Through the CARES Youth Diving Program PAGE 46 RESEARCH Terry Cummins, Ph.D.: What Is Sustainability – Seeking A Definition (Part 1) PAGE 50 TRAVEL Carlos Lander: Nicaragua’s Corn Islands – A Crossroads of History, Culture, and Adventure Gretchen M. Ashton: Highlight the Fitness Features Found in Modern Dive Computers
PAGE 27 RETAILING
Gil Zeimer: To Pee or Not to Pee: “Urine” Good Company
PAGE 30 TRAVEL Jeffrey Bozanic, Ph.D.: Antarctica Beyond Tourism – A Scientific Expedition for Your Ad- vanced Clients
Needs More Self– Generated Data
PAGE 17 TRAVEL
PAGE 18 TRAINING Patrick Hammer: Are You Giving Money Away? Barry Lipsky: Vessel Incident Survival – Firefighter Principles Every Liveaboard Diver Should Know
PAGE 34 TRAINING Margo Peyton:
Training Your Staff to Safely and Effectively Teach Kids to Dive
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