month, year
| vol, num
| front cover
| cover text | articles (E = Editorial)
| # of pages
| cover price
|
January 1972
| 21, 1
|  |
FACE TO FACE WITH WHITEY
ALUMINUM TANKS FOR SPORT DIVERS
FENZY '70 TEST REPORT
FATAL DIVE IN POLLUTED WATERS
WESTERN SAMOA DIVING'S NEW FRONTIER
E. Double Trouble?
- Face to Face with White Death
- Western Samoa
- The Ultimate Underwater Camera Rig
- Aluminum Diving Tanks for 1972
- Fenzy 70
- Mother Lode's Pockets of Gold
- Ocean Gallery
- Environmental Termites of the Florida Keys
- Fatal Dive in Polluted Waters
- Dunlop C-Craft
- Sportsways--The All American Diving Line
- Live Beneath the Sea
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92 |
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February 1972
| 21, 2
|  |
EXCLUSIVE!
SUNKEN JAPANESE SUB FOUND
Lost Since WW II With Crew Still Aboard
NEW ANTI-SHARK WEAPON
ALL ABOUT EELS
DIVE UNDER THE OIL RIGS
Pollution Monster on Rampage
E. Open Water Checkouts...Continued
- Submarine
- A New Look at Louisiana's Oil Rigs
- The Patch Reefs of Andros
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- The Farallon Shark Darts
- Eels and Their Eerie Fascination to Divers
- Death Trap
- How to Select a Commercial Deep Sea Diving School
- Chrysler Deluxe Sport Fury
- Orcas Second Annual Orange County U/W Film Festival
- White Stag has Gone Deep
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88 |
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March 1972
| 21, 3
|  |
1/2 MILE TRIP IN WORLD'S LARGEST U/W CAVE
ECOLOGY CANCER SPREADS
SHOULD WOMEN DIVE?
REPORT - LIGHT METERS U/W
UPTIGHT SHOTS WITH TELEMACRO
JERSEY'S WRECKNAUTS - A NEW BREED OF DIVERS
E. Cloud with a Silver Lining
- Diving in the World's Largest U/W Cave
- Red Coral Diving in the Mediterranean
- Tele-macro
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- U/W Speaker System
- New Jersey Wrecknauts
- What Every Girl Should Know about Diving
- Earth Day April 22
- Florida's Ecology Cancer Spreads
- Sacramento Film Festival
- Midwest Film Festival
- Our World Underwater
- Dacor is Going Places
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80 |
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April 1972
| 21, 4
|  |
TRAPPED - in the middle of a SHARK FRENZY
QUEST FOR MONTEGO'S GIANT SPONGES
SDM TESTS TWO BOATS FOR DIVERS
CHICAGO'S KING OF THE WRECK DIVERS
THERMAL POLLUTION - A HOT ISSUE
E. Accident Reports are Tools...Not Weapons
- The Predators
- A New Look at Montego Bay
- Quarry Diving in Pennsylvania Dutch Country
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- Richard T. Race
- Transparent Treasure
- Banded Coral Shrimp
- Thermal Pollution in the Chesapeake
- The Pro 24
- Bonair II Inflatable Boat
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96 |
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May 1972
| 21, 5
|  |
BASKETBALL'S JERRY LUCAS DROPS ONE IN FOR DIVING
Photo Reports:
* SPACE AGE BOX FOR HASSELBLAD EL
* SEE-THROUGH HOUSING FOR SLR'S
* HONEYWELL STROBE CASES
Mantas Every Morning
SDM Tests Low Priced Inflatable
Trash Explosion Threatens Mankind
Discover The Truth About Mae West
Cayman's No Man's Land Teems With Marine Life
E. The Resort Course...Don't Sell It Short
- The Ten Mile Banks
- Mantas Every Morning
- A Diving Safari to Bonaire and Curaçao
- Housing the Hasselblad EL
- The Ikelite SLR System
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- The Truth About Mae West
- The Trash Explosion
- Catching the Canadian Colossus
- Basketball Star Jerry Lucas Accepts Diving's Challenge
- The Hutchinson Nautisport Atlanta
- Seamless/Nemrod--Hands Across the Sea
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98 |
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June 1972
| 21, 6
|  |
DIVE INTO WORLD WAR II
THE SEARCH FOR BIG RUBY
REVOLUTIONARY BACK PACK
MYSTERY SHIP FOUND
DIVERS TRAIN FOR 2500 FT PLUNGE
E. Is Competetive Spearfishing Obsolete?
- War Relics of Truk Lagoon
- The Pupukea Labyrinth
- Fly 'n Dive Bimini
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- Put a Little Easy in Your Dive
- Heck of a Wreck
- The Search for Ruby Thatcher
- Trash or Habitat?
- A Cure for the Common Starfish
- Tomorrow 2500 Feet
- Aqua-craft Inc.--It's the Little Things That Count
- Marine Archaeology
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98 |
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July 1972
| 21, 7
|  |
SHARK SENSE
WHAT NOT TO DO
SDM List of Dive Medics
EXCLUSIVE SDM INTERVIEW:
Cousteau's Showcase Of The Sea
E. Diving's Most Serious Threat
- Shark Sense
- Lure of the Rhone
- The Undersea World of Santa Cruz Island
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- The ACR Firefly Rescue Light
- Diving Doctors
- Cowries
- A Window into the Federal Pork Barrel
- Basic Etiquette for Divers
- Man Sea '72
- Mako Engineering
- Locating a Dive Spot at Sea
- Captain Cousteau's Showcase of the Sea
|
90 |
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August 1972
| 21, 8
|  |
54 PEOPLE & A SHIPWRECK
AN ARCHAEOLOGY ADVENTURE
Every Diver's Friend The Porcupine Fish
Be Kind To Your Web-Footed Friends
Great Shipwrecks On The East Coast
Cayman - A Paradise In Peril
Unsinkable Dory For Divers
E. [no title]
- Love Affair with a Shipwreck
- Grand Cayman--A Paradise in Peril
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- Diver Surface Float
- The 2K20--A Gold Plated Knife from AMF Swimaster
- New Jersey Shipwrecks
- The Porcupine Fish
- The VBMU
- Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends
- Beginner's Luck
- The Unsinkable Dell Quay Dory
- Sea Suits is Wet Suits
- The Quiet Pioneer
|
90 |
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September 1972
| 21, 9
|  |
ANCIENT MAN RAISED FROM WATERY TOMB
SEWAGE OUTFALLS CAUSE CANCER
GIANT PILLARS OF JAMAICA
YOUR WEB-FOOTED FRIENDS - PART II
E. Wanted: One Diving Hero
- Up from the Well of Time
- Jamaica Diving Holiday
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- U/W Pickup
- The HAE-7G Cartable Compressor
- First Aid for Pressure Related Diving Accidents
- The Gentle Giant
- Cone Shells
- A California Horror Story
- Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends
- The Avon S550
- The Starcraft 20' Islander I/O
- Wreck-quiem of an East Coast Wreck Diver
|
82 |
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October 1972
| 21, 10
|  |
AFRICA'S TREASURE ALLEY POURS FORTH ITS RICHES
Dive For The Loch Ness Monster
The Collectors And How They Do It
VIRGIN ISLANDS' GRAVEYARD OF BONES
Pollution Fighters - Diving's New Heroes
E. An Incomplete Picture...
- 800-foot Descent into the Monster's Lair
- Scuba Diving in France
- The Bone Wreck...and the Sunken Ships of Anegada Reef
- The Konica Marine C35
- Wreck Divers Lament
- Diver's Guide to Unexploded Ordinance
- South Africa's Treasure Alley
- Crab Pods--Protection or Propagation?
- Pollution Fighters--Diving's New Heroes
- Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends
- My Friend the Moray
- Parkway: Business First, but Fun
- The Collectors
- "Unloaded" Powerhead--One Hand Gone
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88 |
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November 1972
| 21, 11
|  |
$100,000 CIVIL WAR TREASURE RECOVERED
JAPAN'S FIRST SCUBA - 1918
ALL ABOUT REGULATORS
LIFE CYCLE OF A CALIF. LOBSTER
TERMITES IN RETREAT
BIOGRAPHY OF A MASTER DIVER
E. Double Trouble?
- Scuba Class in Paradise
- Ohgushi's Peerless Respirator
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- Selecting a Regulator
- $100,000 Civil War Cache Found
- Questions I've Been Asked
- The California Spiny Lobster
- Termites in Retreat
- Biography of a Diver's Hero
- Imperial Manufacturing: Are You a Turtle?
|
82 |
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December 1972
| 21, 12
|  |
ZERO In A lonely Pacific Grave
XMAS DIVING HOLIDAY
Do Something Different in '72
EAST COAST ARTIFACT EXHIBIT
A Mind-blowing Collection Of Ships Relics
SPONGE SPECTACULAR
Superb Photos By A Master
CHAMBER TREATMENT FOR BENDS
What Will You Do If It Happens To You?
TAKE YOUR INSTAMATIC UNDERWATER
A Housing Available For Every Instamatic Made
E. Where Did They Go Wrong?
- Zero Reef
- The Saga of the Cannons of Diamond Rock
- East Coast Wreck Artifact Exhibit
- The Great Lakes
- Chamber of Horror
- Different Kind of Christmas
- Saltwater Aquarium
- The Hellephone
- Underwater Photography Quick and Easy
- Rip Currents
- Sponges
- Farallon Industries: The Most for the Most
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90 |
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