Skin Diver magazine summary: 1962

month, year	vol, num	front cover	cover text | articles (E = Editorial)	# of pages	cover price
January 1962	11, 1		FICTION THE LONG SNORKEL-- BY CLARE BOOTHE LUCE 1962 AQUATIC BUYING GUIDE DEEP DIVING LAWS OF SALVAGE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL--COLLECTORS ITEM FIRST ISSUE RERUN Aboard the U.S.S. Spinax The Laws of Salvage Buying at the Backbone Diving the Caribbean Frey and Church Photos Bermuda Scuba Tour Ciampi and La Porte Photos Winter Exercises Ichthyology Research Principles of Deep Diving The Long Snorkel Crystal Springs Incident Return to Lost Spring SDM's First Issue	112	$0.50
February 1962	11, 2		Announcing SDM's Teenage SUMMER SCHOLARSHIP FOR MARINE SCIENCE See Pages 34 & 36 Fiction Special: QUEST OF MUNGO GRAY UNDERWATER FIRE FIGHTERS AMAZING SHARK TEETH UNDERWATER TV IDOL LLOYD BRIDGES Sea Hunting The Quest of Mungo Gray An Ichthyologist at Eilat Shark's Teeth! Return To Yuba Astrojet Up...Up...And Away! Underwater Firefighters Anchors Aweigh?? Before the Dikes Principles of Deep Diving Aqua-Holics Anonymous Recompression	64	$0.50
March 1962	11, 3		La Jolla's Beautiful UNDERWATER CANYON THE DYING DOMINATOR KILLER WHALE! STATE BY STATE DIVER'S DIRECTORY AIR EQUIPMENT LESSONS Submarine Canyon The Dying Dominator Principles of Deep Diving Underwater Olympic Games International Underwater Film Festival Organized Instruction? Killer Whale! Lobster	64	$0.50
April 1962	11, 4		AIR UNDER PRESSURE UNDERWATER FLASH PROBLEM HINTS UNDERWATER RESEARCH SAVES PILOTS SUNKEN SUB... SIGHTED SAME DOWN A LONG, LONG TIME NEW JERSEY TREASURE HYDRO-CORAL Underwater Research Saves Pilots First Annual Fish Count Ocean Check-Out For a Long Long Time Diver's Air Supply Hydro-Coral Sunken Sub...Sighted Same International Underwater Photographic Exhibition Underwater Flash Problems	64	$0.50
May 1962	11, 5		Vasa Report DO FISH SLEEP? AIR FORCE MOVIE-MAKERS Beach Temptress Contest Report on the Vasa New Safety Aid Air Force Movie-Makers Miss International Beach Temptress Diver's Air Supply Diving the Nine Mile Reef Do Fish Sleep?	64	$0.50
June 1962	11, 6		THE WONDERS OF WATER SPECIAL FEATURE UNDERWATER PROPULSION DEVICES RIVER IN THE SEA N.A.U.I. Instruction Course - June 17-23 Underwater Propulsion Devices The Wonders of Water Scavenger Dive River in the Sea NOGI=FISH	64	$0.50
July 1962	11, 7		UNDERWATER LOG SALVAGE DIVING IN MONTEZUMA'S WELL Dr. Gilbert and the Shark Bubbling Up An Anchor Twenty Feet of Mud Wet Suits Underwater Log Salvage Monster Bubble of Lake Fenton Recompression Montezuma's Well G. I. Hard Hat Summer Cruise Miss International Beach Temptress	64	$0.50
August 1962	11, 8		UNDERWATER FEATURES Personality Spotlight Driftwood Junior Fin Fans News Current & More SURVIVE ON SEA WATER? Wonders of Weeki-Wachee BLACK TUNNEL EPIC National Diver's Directory Weeki Wachee Springs A Good Day Sponge Divers of Lebanon The Tunnel Happy Skin Diver Prison Dive One Way Street and Sea Monster Ice Dive Military Para-scuba High Altitude versus Diving Locusts of the Sea The Built-Up Speargun Metal Detector Baltic Treasure Trove Survive on Sea Water??	64	$0.50
September 1962	11, 9		Do It Yourself . . . UNDERWATER FLASH ATTACHMENT New Submersible DEEPSTAR Thrilling True Adventure HAZARD BELOW Elgin Ciampi Photos Bob Kendall Photo Money Grows on Trees Hazard Below Underwater Flash Attachment Deepstar Barbers of the Sea History of a Diving Club Chasms, Caves and Coral Saint David's Island Rock Lake Pyramids Taravana Hank Frey Photo	64	$0.50
October 1962	11, 10		Sea Snakes DEEP DIVE UNDERWATER CONTRACTORS Ron Church Photo Deep Dive Underwater Flower Garden Operation Clean-Up Underwater Olympic Games Underwater Archaeology Ron Church Photo A Quarry Story Sea Snakes Ron Church Photo International Underwater Contractors Operation Cray Chase Sirens Screaming Towvane Fresh Water Sponges	64	$0.50
November 1962	11, 11		Treasure of Cayman Cove FIRST UNDERWATER COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS YUBA GOLD Divers Eliminate Death Trap Yuba Gold Hedgehog in the House Diving in the Land of Maņana Miss International Beach Temptress Treasure of Cayman Cove MUREX of Lebanon Civilian Hardhat Hank Frey Photograph Death Trap Service to Divers Oceanography Is Their Business Underwater Bears The Compleat Horn Rimmed Diver Surfing Champs Police Skin Divers I Married a . . . Fish First Color Underwater Photographs	64	$0.50
December 1962	11, 12		FRESH WATER SCUBAZOOLOGY OUR VANISHING UNDERSEA WRECKS ADVENTURE AT FLINDERS REEF Miss International Beach-Temptress Runners-Up BERMUDA SCUBA TOUR LAKE TAHOE REGATTA Quest of the Griffon Harrah's Tahoe Regatta Fresh Water Scubazoology Third Annual Glasspar Derby Winner Service to Diving Diver's Paradise . . . Grand Cayman Wreckage . . . Its Preservation and Identification Miss International Beach Temptress Runners-Up Our Vanishing Wrecks Adventure at Flinders Reef Visiting Oceanographer Aircraft Recovery Seminar High-Speed Ektachrome Core Sampling Iowa's Lake Okoboji Sketchbook Beneath the Sea Second Annual Bermuda Scuba Tour Charts for Divers SDM Annual Index, 1962	64	$0.50

Abbreviations

• G.I. = galvanized iron / government issue / general issue (historical word origin, only)
• MUREX = Mediterranean Underwater Research and Exploration
• N.A.U.I. = National Association of Underwater Instructors
• NOGI = New Orleans Grand Isle Scuba Divers International
• U.S.S. = United States Ship

Comments

• November 1962: The article "The Compleat Horn Rimmed Diver" is probably humorously based on the very old book The Compleat Goggler, which was advertised in some issues from this year.