July 2025 Scuba Diving Industry™ Magazine

SCUBA DIVING INDUSTRY™ MAGAZINE • JULY 2025

CONTENTS PAGE 5 FROM THE PUBLISHER How Big Are We as a Global Industry in Terms of Sales? PAGE 7 SAFETY Dan Orr: What Does Age Have To Do With It?

ADVERTISERS 2 & 3 Aggressor Adventures 6 Divers Alert Network (DAN) 8 Books by Dan Orr/Best Publishing 9 Big Animals Global Expeditions 10 Aggressor Adventures 11 Take Our Subscriber Survey & Win 13 Alex Brylske’s Book by Reef Smart 15 Neal Watson’s Bimini Scuba 16 Sea Experience, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 16 Stream2Sea Reef Safe Products 21 Barefoot Cay Resort, Roatan 26 Make A Di ff erence Challenge 28 Fog-X Mask Defogging Film 29 Blue Force Fleet Liveaboards 31 Sau Bay Resort & Spa, Fiji 32 Deep Blue Adventures Travel 32 Volivoli Beach Resort, Fiji 33 X-Ray Magazine 34 New Podcast Series for Retailers 35 SeaCure Custom Mouthpieces 35 ScubaRadio 36 Visit Cayman Islands | ISDHF 37 Diveplanit Travel Planners 39 Explorer Ventures Liveaboards BACK COVER DEMA 41 Level Up Video Podcasts 41 Marketing Minutes Video Podcasts 41 Level Up: From Behind The Counter Video Podcasts 42 Article Index 21 ScubaWeather.com 23 All Star Liveaboards 24 Clear Story Coach 26 Wayne B. Brown Book

PAGE 17 PHOTO PRO

PAGE 25 RETAILING Shelli Hendricks, Ph.D.: Managing Peak Season: Stop Burnout Before It Starts PAGE 26 INNOVATION Gil Zeimer: Garmin’s SubWave Sonar Technology

Amos Nachoum: Behind The Lens: Mobula Rays are Diamonds in the Sky

PAGE 18 TRAVEL

PAGE 19 RETAILING Michael and Rachael Welling: The Giant Stride: We Bought A Dive Shop – Now What? PAGE 20 TRAINING Gretchen M. Ashton: Creating a Healthier Scuba Diving Business with a Fitness Profit Center David Prichard & Lily Mak: Planning That Long-Haul Group Bucket List Trip

PAGE 28 TRAINING

PAGE 9 TRAINING

Joel Silverstein: Time to Tighten the Standards in Nitrox Gas Analysis

Al Hornsby: Accidents in the Blue Too-Often Aren’t Accidents ‘Out of the Blue’ PAGE 11 BUSINESS EDU William Cline: Shark Forward: Stay Sharp in Mid-Summer PAGE 12 ECO PRO

PAGE 33 TRAVEL

Peter Symes: Attersee Lake in Austria, Diving in the Alps

PAGE 34 RETAILING Jeff Cinciripino:

Keeping Divers Diving by Selling the Big Three PAGE 38 INDUSTRY NEWS John Christopher Fine, J.D.: Dr. Sylvia Earle’s Focus On Ocean Conservation

PAGE 22 BUSINESS EDU

Alex Brylske, Ph.D.: Training a Complete Diver: Attitude is Everything

Cathryn Castle Garcia: Vision, Values, Mission: Making Statements That Benefit Your Business

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