TABLE OF CONTENTS SCUBA DIVING INDUSTRY® MAGAZINE • JUNE 2026
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ADVERTISERS 2 Divers Alert Network (DAN) 3 Aggressor Adventures 6 Books by Dan Orr/Best Publishing 7 Bahamas Ministry of Tourism 8 The Dive Shop @ Cape Eleuthera 10 Barefoot Cay Resort, Roatan 11 All Star Liveaboards 12 Alex Brylske’s Book by Reef Smart 13 Fort Young Dive Resort, Dominica 15 Scuba Do Rag Apparel 15 Explorer Ventures Liveaboards 16 Clear Story Coach 17 Dive BVI 17 Fog-X Mask Defogging Film 18 Blue Force Fleet Liveaboards 19 Visit Cayman Islands | ISDHF 20 Sea Experience, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 21 NAUI 21 Deep Blue Adventures Travel 24 Family Divers/Kids Sea Camps 25 Stream2Sea Reef Smart Products 27 Lita’s All Natural Insect Repellent 27 SEI/Scuba Educators International 28 Neal Watson’s Bimini Scuba 29 Diveplanit Travel Planners 32 Sau Bay Resort & Spa, Fiji 34 CORAL Reef Alliance 35 ScubaRadio 37 Caradonna Adventures 38 X-Ray Magazine 39 Dive Industry Video Podcasts 41 Aqaba Blue: Ocean Future Show 48 Scuba Storyteller by Gil Zeimer 48 SSI/Scuba Schools International 49 Dive Industry Young Professionals 50 2026 NOGI Awards Gala @ DEMA BACK COVER DEMA 53 Level Up, Marketing Minutes & From Behind the Counter Podcasts 54 Article Index
Standards vs. Judgment / William Cline
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"Don't Tell Me No. Tell Me How!" The Power of Adaptive Scuba Training / Dan Orr 12 Dive Supervision: Anticipating Your Divers’ Predictable Risks / Al Hornsby BUSINESS EDU 16 QR Codes Are Cool Again: Turning Scans Into Sales / Cathryn Castle Garcia 49 Rebuilding Scuba Starts at the Dive Store / Harry Truitt RETAILING 14 Do You Have a Planned Maintenance Program? / Je ff Cinciripino 22 More Than a Dive Store: How Community Carries a Business Forward / Jo Mikutowicz TRAINING 23 Teaching Scuba Better: Standards vs. the Instructor’s Responsibility / Tom Leaird 24 A Beautiful Way to Serve Families and Grow Your Business / Margo Peyton 26 Transit Time Is Opportunity, Not Downtime / William Cline TRAVEL 27 Malaysia’s Dive Show: Diving’s Next Generation? / Peter Symes 30 How to Position Komodo for the Right Dive Traveler / Mark B. Hatter TRAVEL FEATURE 40 A Group Travel Guide to The Maldives / Christopher P. Weaver & Michael Salvarezza PHOTO PRO 32 Finding Personality in Familiar Marine Life / Steven Lopez, MSc & Dr. Carmen Obied ECO PRO 34 When Coral Collapse Happens in Real Time / Alex Brylske, Ph.D. 36 Shark Stewards: Turning Conservation Into Customer Engagement / Gil Zeimer 38 Marine Turtles on the Brink / John Christopher Fine, J.D.
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