Skin Diver magazine summary: 1963

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January
1963
12,
1
1963 UNDERWATER PRODUCTS
WORLD WIDE CLUB ROSTER

  1. Hialeah's Diving Firemen
  2. Getting the "Bug"
  3. Hannes Keller Deep Dive Expert
  4. California's Diving Game Wardens
  5. Salvage Under the Ice
  6. Meet Miss Driftwood
  7. World-Wide Underwater Club Roster
  8. 6th International Underwater Film Festival
64 $0.50
February
1963
12,
2
THE KELLER STORY
Experiment in Depth
EXPEDITION TO DANGER!
LOST FLEET OF KUBLAI KHAN
DISCOVERY!!
CHRIST OF THE DEEP
Mystery Monster
UNDERWATER CAR CAPER
Italian Frogmen

  1. An Experiment in Depth
  2. Beyond the Sun's Rays
  3. Expedition to Danger
  4. Pennsylvania Pipe Cleaners
  5. Wreck Diving in the Gulf of Finland
  6. Christ of the Deep
  7. Conference on Recompression
  8. The Underwater Car Caper
  9. Ron Church Photo
  10. 6th International Underwater Film Festival
  11. Lost Fleet of Kublai Khan
  12. Diving Scientist of the Bahamas
  13. Shark Molesters
  14. Mystery Monster of the Deep
  15. Italian Frogment Visit U.S.
  16. National Fin-Swimming Meets
64 $0.50
March
1963
12,
3
Latin American Safari
Pearl Divers of Seattle
PIRANHA INFESTED WATERS
GOLD EXPEDITION TO FRENCH GUIANA
UNDERWATER WRECK OF THE SANCTA SOPHIA
FIGHT FOR LIFE

  1. Wreck of the Sancta Sophia
  2. What's a Diving Club Really Worth?
  3. Fight for Life
  4. Expedition to French Guiana
  5. Marineland Photo
  6. Latin American Safari
  7. Adventure at a Leisurely Pace
  8. Exploring the Thermocline
  9. To Catch a Pearl Diver
  10. Territory: Underwater
  11. Dust Bowl Divers
  12. Door County Divers
  13. Wildlife Photography Underwater
64 $0.50
April
1963
12,
4
ANNOUNCING THE SECOND SDM
Summer Scholarship For Marine Science
DEPTH RECORD
Manihiki Mystery Diver
ONE MAN AGAINST THE SEA
UNDERWATER FICTION FEATURE
THE TRAP

  1. Mystery Diver of Manihiki
  2. Fossil Shell Hunt
  3. 1962 Inter-America Underwater Spearfishing Championships
  4. NOGI
  5. The Trap
  6. Submarine Caverns of the Bahamas
  7. Gar Rodeo
  8. Maryland Police Divers
  9. Black Magic
  10. Leave it to the Experts
  11. Fred Baldasare . . . A Man Against the Sea
  12. It's a Long Hard Road
64 $0.50
May
1963
12,
5
SKEENA RIVER TREASURE
UDT
MISSION UNDER THE SEA
Spearfishing for Science
DIVING VACATIONLAND
Bermuda Barbados
Hui Kai Club
Club Mediterranee
Miss International Beach-Temptress Contest

  1. Mud Puppy Hunt
  2. Skeena River Treasure
  3. Mission Under the Sea
  4. Club Mediterranee
  5. Research Submarine
  6. 6th International Underwater Film Festival
  7. Spearfishing for Science
  8. Barbados
  9. Hui Kai Deep See Club
  10. Bermuda, "Isle of 1000 Wrecks"
64 $0.50
June
1963
12,
6
UNDERWATER REGULATORS
FEATURED APPARATUS MANUFACTURED BY
DACOR DEMONE
DESCO NORMALAIR
HEALTHWAYS
ROSE
SPORTSWAYS VOIT
SEAMLESS SCUBAPRO
U.S. DIVERS WHITE STAG
SPECIAL REPORT by BEV MORGAN
A Complete Analysis of How Air is
Metered on Demand Under Pressure

  1. Focus on Regulators
  2. One-Stage, Two-Hose Regulators
  3. Brand Names and Breakdowns on One-Stage, Two-Hose Regulators
  4. Bev Morgan Photo
  5. Explanation of Upstream and Downstream Valves
  6. Two-Hose, Two-Stage Regulators
  7. Brand Names and Breakdowns on Two-Hose, Two-Stage Regulators
  8. Elgin Ciampi Photo
  9. Single-Hose Regulators
  10. Explanation of Balanced First Stage
  11. Brand Names and Breakdowns on Single-Hose Regulators
  12. David Hurst Photo
  13. Explanation of Piston Action First Stage
  14. Brand Names and Breakdowns on Piston Action First Stage Regulators
  15. Brand Names and Breakdowns on Full Face Mask Compressed Air Breathing Units
  16. Discontinued Regulators
64 $0.50
July
1963
12,
7
Lapland Gold
CB Radio for Divers
Link With Life
OCTOPUS WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Men of the UDT RESERVE

  1. Divers' Fair
  2. Lapland Gold
  3. Citizens Band Radio for Divers
  4. 1963 World Octopus Wrestling Championships
  5. A Light in Hornsby Sink
  6. Men of the UDT Reserve
  7. Link With Life
  8. Small Craft Navigation
  9. A Giant Step in Conservation
  10. Photo "Enrolling in a School"
  11. Underwater Society of America Fourth Annual Convention
  12. Supplement to World-Wide Roster of Underwater Clubs
  13. Diving the Julians
  14. Night Diving
64 $0.50
August
1963
12,
8
Winners Announced!!
JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP SERVICE TO DIVING
"Do It Yourself"
FLOATS - GUNS - AQUARIUMS - DETECTORS - SLURPS
PHOTOGRAPHY - INTERCOM - GLIDER - SAFETY VEST

  1. Small Craft Navigation
  2. Part I--Principles of Underwater Camera Housing Construction
  3. Part II--Box Type Underwater Camera Housing
  4. Part III--Cylindrical Underwater Camera Housing
  5. Part IV--Underwater Flash Attachment
  6. Underwater Intercom
  7. Salt Water Aquarium
  8. Built-In Safety Vest
  9. Sea Glider
  10. Underwater Metal Detector
  11. Build Your Own Slurp Gun
  12. Make Your Own Addict Gun
  13. Let's Build a Surf Float
  14. Getting the "Bug-Picking" Bug
64 $0.50
September
1963
12,
9
DREAMBOAT . . .
two man submarine
South American Fiction Adventure
AGUAS ALTAS DE ORO
PLUS UNDERWATER STORIES FROM:
New York . Australia . California . Canada
Florida . Maine . Washington . Great Lakes

  1. Diving Australia's Great Barrier Reef
  2. Diving The Coast of Maine
  3. Small Craft Navigation
  4. Salvage, Anyone?
  5. Aguas Altas de Oro
  6. Diving Historical Canada
  7. Straight-Down Dive
  8. Dream Boat
  9. Operation "Giant Stride"
  10. From a Mile High . . . To 100 Feet Deep
  11. A Day Off For Diving
  12. Reef-Arama
  13. Octopus Safari
  14. Diving "Big Mac"
  15. River Diver
  16. Marine Technology Program
64 $0.50
October
1963
12,
10
SPECIAL BONUS
Underwater COLOR Photos!
GOLD Comes In Quartz

  1. The Treasure of Silver Shoals
  2. Gold Comes in Quartz
  3. Plucking the Bird
  4. Tractor Salvage in Arctic Canada
  5. Midwest Spearfishing
  6. Recipes for Carp
  7. "San Diego" Rendezvous
  8. Blowfishes of the Red Sea
  9. Lost Cannons of Terceira
  10. Search for the CSA Raleigh
  11. The Escape
  12. Don't Rock the Boat
62 $0.60
November
1963
12,
11
5 pages of . . . BEAUTIFUL UNDERWATER COLOR!
Treasure of Silver Shoals
Mantas, Turtles, Tourists
Lost Fossils of Chesapeake Bay
Deep in a Florida Grotto

  1. "Playful Octopi"
  2. Whale Tale
  3. Deep in a Florida Grotto
  4. Mantas, Turtles, Tourists
  5. The Treasure of Silver Shoals (Part II)
  6. Winner . . . 1963-1964 Miss International Beach Temptress Contest
  7. Adventure Fijian Style
  8. Beneath the Oil Rigs
  9. Lost Fossils of Chesapeake Bay
  10. Meet the New U.S. Spearfishing Team
  11. Story of the Brain (coral, that is)
  12. Bad Day for Bugs
  13. Tiger Under The Sea
  14. "Shooting the Gulf"
  15. Scallops à la Petrie
  16. To the Keys for Scenes and Treasure
68 $0.60
December
1963
12,
12
UNDERWATER COLOR From:
CALIFORNIA
CARIBBEAN
ILLINOIS
FLORIDA
PHOTO STORY
UNDERWATER SPEARFISHING CHAMPIONSHIPS

  1. SDM Annual Index
  2. Treasure of Silver Shoals
  3. How to Find a Wreck
  4. Ice Dive
  5. Torpedo Below
  6. Scorpionfish of the Red Sea
  7. Chained Giant
  8. Treasure Island of the Pacific
  9. Bahama Pro
  10. Underwater Spearfishing Championships
  11. Toughest Thing in the Sea
  12. Christ of the Abysses
  13. How to Win a Festival
  14. Underwater Lamp-Camera Combination
  15. Mesoscaphe
68 $0.60

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