Skin Diver magazine summary: 1960

month, year	vol, num	front cover	cover text | articles (E = Editorial)	# of pages	cover price
January 1960	9, 1		DONNA DAVISON, 9-YEAR-OLD DIVETTE KILLER WHALES MYSTIC MIDRIFF FISH PRINTS GAR HUNT SEA LION GEOLOGISTS Geologic Mapping Underwater Juggler Rocks in their Heads Gar Hunt 9-Year-Old Divette Killer Whales Are Whales a Serious Threat to Small Boats? Five Miles to the Beach Seals and Sea Lions Mystic Midriff Don't Knock the Rock Paradise or Pitfall Fish Prints Guernsey Isle Diving Northeast Awards Banquet Chicago Divers Search for Missing Judge Why I Am a Skin Diver	64	$0.35
February 1960	9, 2		WATER MANIPULATORS 8-ft. BARRACUDA SIGHTED MALIBU SURF FESIVAL MONSTER OF TUMACH 1960 Aquatic Equipment BUYING GUIDE UNDERWATER POLICE MYSTERY OF AVE DEL MAR Scuba Speed Challenge Personality Spotlight Water Manipulators Eight Foot Barracuda Sighted Malibu Surf Festival Monster of Tumach Mystery of "Ave Del Mar" Divers Fashions U.S. Divers Company Ozark Diving Dacor Corporation Legislation Can Be a Booby Trap Rebels Attack U.S.S. Cairo Michigan Boasts 56 Underwater Troopers Sportways Houston Convention Plans Healthways Results of SDM Reader Survey World-wide Roster of Underwater Clubs	104	$0.35
March 1960	9, 3		C0NTINENTAL SHELF SAUCER TESTS ABOARD CALYPSO BULGARIAN DIVERS RECOVER GREEK AMPHORAE CHICAGO'S PHENOMENAL FRAME CAMEOS IN CORAL IDAHO MAGIC DIVERS My Days Aboard the Calypso Bulgarian Divers Recover Amphorae The Phenomenal Frame Here We Go Again, and Why International Treasure Hunt Filter System for Oil Lubricated Compressors Check and Re-Check Your Scuba Air Supply Book Review--Salt Water Aquariums in the Home Sea Rovers Take St. Nick Underwater Spanish Underwater Scenery Painter Divers Fashions Cameos in Coral You Are There in Houston	64	$0.35
April 1960	9, 4		WIN-A-GLASSPAR DERBY LOST SPRING SURFER SAFARI THAT BIG WHITE ELEPHANT Kid-Kidnapper Surfer Safari Drowned or Suspended Animation That Big White Elephant Lost Spring High Pressure Air Cylinders La Paz = Fish You Are There In Houston Flotsom & Jetsom Divers' Fashions Record Review 1961 Bids for Inter-America "Win-A-Glasspar" Gamefish Diving Derby Cold Water Retrieve	80	$0.35
May 1960	9, 5		TRUE STORY ON SEA MONSTERS SHARK ENCOUNTER Diving Science FABULOUS CAPE SAN LUCAS NATIONAL DIVING PATROL Make Your Own KILLER GUN Sea Monsters Fabulous Cape San Lucas Max Gene Nohl Shark Encounter Duration Underwater The Magic Shop They'll Dive Anywhere Flotsom & Jetsom 1959 A.A.U. Convention Report Make Your Own Killer Gun Additional Roster of Underwater Clubs Miss International Beach Temptress Contest Northwest Clipper Ship Rediscovered	80	$0.35
June 1960	9, 6		RARE PURPLE CORAL DISCOVERY HISTORY OF THE DIVERS FLAG DEATH AWAITS THE DARING SPECIAL ISSUE BOATING EQUIPMENT FOR DIVERS History of the Diving Flag Rare Coral Discovery Once Upon A Time (Fiction) Death Awaits the Daring Sal si Puedes How to Start a Club Diver's Eye (Electronic Locators) Compact Wagon Uniform Laws Help Boating Safety How to Load and Carry Small Boats The Med's the Place...with the Club Méditerranée Capt. Cousteau's Miami Visit To the Keys on a Raft Tube Method of Mouth-to-Mouth Respiration United States Team to the World Championship National Diving Patrol Fish, Fish and More Fish Golden Doubloon Leaves for Caribbean Treasure You Are There in Houston Women's Spearfishing Competitions Miss International Beach Temptress Personality Spotlight Delinquent Lexicon of Diving Terminology	96	$0.35
July 1960	9, 7		KILLERS ON LOOSE SHARK CENSUS IN THIS ISSUE: COMMERCIAL ABALONE DIVING THE LAST DIVE PRESSURE, EARS, DRUGS New Orleans Grand Isle Pressure, Ears, Drugs Commercial Abalone Diving Guide for a Beginning Skin Diver The Last Dive The Big Splash Shark Census Sixth Annual Boston Sea Rovers Clinic National Association of Underwater Instructors Diverse Heads U.S. Team to World Championships Depth Record Decade of Progress New Underwater Books Underwater Society of American Convention Greater Los Angeles Council Competitions Power Divers Underwater Spearfishing World Records	80	$0.35
August 1960	9, 8		NEW WORLD'S RECORD 480 lb. BLACK SEA BASS GOLD DIVING BONANZA AMERICAN GIRL TO CROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL UNDERWATER The Gold Diving Bonanza Mineral Rights and Regulations Buy, Sell and Hold Gold Legally Prospecting and Mining Where to Sell Gold Parachuting for Gold Gold and Where to Find It Prospecting the Hard Way Gold Diving Books A New Hazard Nationals Underwater Spearfishing World Record National Association of Underwater Instructors New Orleans Grand Isle Bottom Scratchers Record Holder Plans to Cross English Channel Underwater	72	$0.35
September 1960	9, 9		UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY ISSUE Miss International Beach-Temptress 1960 Winning Photograph My Search for the Perfect Underwater Camera Outline for a Successful Marine Photography Career Underwater Movies Expand Scope of Scuba Cinematography Underwater Past, Present and Future of UW Photography National Club . . . Underwater Photographic Society A Ship, Camera and Clear Water Aqua Cases and Accessories Pictures at Random	64	$0.35
October 1960	9, 10		GLASSPAR CONTEST RESULTS FEATURING DIVING IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC World Underwater Spearfishing Championships Glasspar Diving Derby Puka Paradise Crays, Kingies and John Dorsies Diving the Philippines Majuro Tropical Spearfishing Killer Clams Adventuring in the Deep Great Barrier Reef New Caledonia Land of Competition	64	$0.35
November 1960	9, 11		WE FIND OUR TREASURE SHIP CAVE DIVERS GIANT KELP--KEY TO THE FUTURE UNDER ICE FOR DEPTH National Association of Underwater Instructors Training Course Giant Kelp--Key to the Future Runners Up--Miss International Beach-Temptress Contest Denmark Can Join It Too Instrument of Death Scubatorium Cool Sport in a Hot Place We Find Our Treasure Ship My Son Rob Escape to the Blue Depths Under Ice Deep Dive Images of the Deep Ohio Cave Divers Cuban Divers Investigate "La Coubre" Greatest Diver of Them All Canadian Divers Explore Montmorency Falls "Granite State" Becomes Divers Playground Nubbles Meet Southwest Pacific Coast Championships Fiesta of Five Flags	64	$0.35
December 1960	9, 12		$361,000,000 TREASURE CACHE U.D.T. HELL WEEK RUSSIA UNDERWATER SHOOTING THE TUBE Shooting the Tube With My Teeth and Two Good Divers Recompression Russia Underwater UDT Hell Week Diving into the Past I Made My Hobby Pay Off Tricks of the Trade Spearfishermen Threatened by Department of Fish and Game Itazuke Sea Rovers Underwater Game Preserve Underwater Channel Swim $316,000,000 Treasure Map Original Spear-Fisher Waterlung Rescue Underwater Endurance National Underwater Photographic Exhibition Fourth Annual Underwater Film Festival	64	$0.35

Abbreviations

• A.A.U. = Amateur Athletic Union
• U.D.T. = Underwater Demolition Team

Comments

• March 1960: Article index misspells "Amphorae" as "Amphora."
• June 1960: Index says "Rare Purple Discovery," article says "Rare Coral Discovery."
• June 1960: This purple coral discovery was in Farnsworth Banks in Southern California, which later became a reasonably well-known diving destination.
• August 1960: Index says "New Orleans-Grand Isle Scuba Tourney," article says "New Orleans Grand Isle."
• September 1960: Index says "Past, Present and Future of UW Photography," article says "Past, Present and Future of Aquatic Cameras."