Skin Diver magazine summary: 1974

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January
1974
23,
1
ANDREA DORIA SALVAGE
VISIT A BAHAMA HIDEAWAY
TREASURE DIVER'S LAMENT
SDM'S METAL DETECTOR REPORT

E. Spearfishing... Where Do We Stand?
  1. The Andrea Doria Caper
  2. The Current Club
  3. Butterflies are Fish
  4. Treasure Diving for Fun and Failure
  5. Featuring John C. Peterson
  6. Colonel John D. Craig
  7. The Goldmaster Amphibian Model BF-8 Metal Detector
  8. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
  9. Tor Furumo
  10. Only for a Friend
  11. -49 Degree Check-Out--Alaskan Style
88 $1.00
February
1974
23,
2
ANDREA DORIA'S TREASURE VAULT FINALLY REACHED
ECUADOR'S PRIMEVAL ISLES EXPLORED
PORPOISE - THE HAPPY PEOPLE OF THE SEA
SDM TESTS A SOUPED-UP SUB SCOOTER

E. The Good and the Bad
  1. The Andrea Doria Caper
  2. The Galapagos Trip
  3. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
  4. Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
  5. Under the Cloak of Night
  6. Aquatic Anomalies
  7. The Playful Porpoises
  8. Maine Lobsters
  9. Postal Gallery of Skin Diving Art
  10. SDM Readers React to the Pros and Cons of Spearfishing
106 $1.00
March
1974
23,
3
STELLA MARIS - ETERNAL PARADISE
IN DEFENSE OF SPEARFISHING
BY DALLA VALLE
NEW SHIPWRECK FINDS IN TRUK
TWISTED FATE OF LAST NAZI U-BOAT
EXPOSÉ ON THE CORAL GOUGERS

E. More Chambers Needed
  1. In Defense of Spearfishing
  2. The Twisted Fate of the U-853
  3. Stella Maris--Eternal Paradise
  4. Exposé on the Coral Gougers
  5. Truk's Magnificent Seven
  6. The Egg Cowrie
  7. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
  8. Scuba-eye Sonar
92 $1.00
April
1974
23,
4
Should Chemical Fish Collecting BE BANNED?
Saucer Dive With Captain Cousteau
Guam - Newest Pacific Playground
SDM Tests Super Pack

E. Organize for Survival
  1. Innerspace Flight Training
  2. Guam - Gateway to Micronesia
  3. U.S. Divers' UDS-1
  4. Let's Get It On!
  5. Preserving a Rare But Transient Heritage
  6. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
  7. Squid
  8. Deadly Cocktail?
  9. Comments from the Silent Majority
  10. Beware of Underwater Blackouts!
96 $1.00
May
1974
23,
5
POSTERIZE YOUR PICTURES
HUNDRED MILLION IN TREASURE FOUND?
DIVING FOR CALIFORNIA JADE
SPEARFISHERMAN TAKE AIM ON CRITICS

E. Gauge Your Safety Margin
  1. Treasure of Nuestra Senora de la Maravilla
  2. Bonaire Nightlife
  3. Posterize Those Pix
  4. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
  5. The Spotted Eagle Ray
  6. Jade Cove
  7. Buoyancy Compensator Roundup
  8. Letters from the Silent Majority
  9. Advanced Divers Programs
98 $1.00
June
1974
23,
6
HOW TO BLOW AIR RINGS
ANTI-SHARK WET SUIT REVOLUTIONARY WEAPON
ABALONE - ENDANGERED SPECIES
NAVY REPORT - UDT/SEAL TEAM
TALE OF A SEA DRAGON
EQUIPMENT REPORTS:
SUBSEA MARK 25
AT-PAC
MOULDABLE MOUTHPIECE

E. Take Five...
  1. Revolutionary Weapon
  2. Blow an Air Ring
  3. UDT/SEAL: A Fierce Desire to Succeed
  4. A Second Look at the At-Pak
  5. Bite into Your Own Mouldable Mouthpiece
  6. Featuring Henk Otto
  7. Abalone - An Endangered Species
  8. Tale of a Sea Dragon
  9. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
98 $1.00
July
1974
23,
7
LOCKOUT AT 700'
"PROVO"--LATEST NAME IN RESORT DIVING
NEW GEAR: DIVERS' INSTRUMENT PANELS
A DIVE GUIDE TO L.I., NEW YORK

E. Push-button Diving
  1. Lockout at 700 Feet
  2. Provo
  3. A Diver's Guide to Long Island, New York
  4. Divers' Instrument Panels
  5. Deep Sea Diving is Alive and Well
  6. The Sea Anemone Tealia
  7. Eat Better, Dive Better
  8. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
  9. Divers Witness an Unusual Phenomenon
96 $1.00
August
1974
23,
8
DUMAS DIVES THE DORIA
A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT BY JAMES DUGAN
NEW HORIZONS IN OIL FIELD MINING
HOW TO START A CAREER IN RECREATIONAL DIVING
SDM DIVE GUIDE TO TRUK LAGOON

E. Diving for Numbers
  1. Hard Dives on the Doria
  2. SDM Diving Guide to Truk
  3. Where the Fish Roam Free
  4. The Supersuit by O'Neill
  5. The Greenhouse
  6. PDIC: Certification for a Career
  7. To Spear or Not to Spear
  8. Hors D'Oeuvres for Hogfish
  9. Oil from the Bottom of the Sea
  10. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
88 $1.00
September
1974
23,
9
TOBAGO'S FABULOUS FLYING REEFS
RIDE THE KONA CRUISER
THE SPORT DIVER'S ROLE IN U/W ARCHAEOLOGY
HOW PURE IS THE AIR WE BREATHE?
NEW GEAR:
AMF'S NEW POLY TANK LIFELINER
NIKONOS' AMAZING 15 MM LENS

E. Pre-dive Checklist...
  1. Tobago's Fabulous Flying Reef
  2. Fair Wind at Kona
  3. U/W Archaeology: The State of the Art
  4. Logical Fallacies of Spearfishing
  5. How Pure is the Air We Breathe?
  6. Scubapoker--A $5000 Pot
  7. Bridging the Diver Education Gap
  8. U/W Photography Quick & Easy
  9. Fan Worms
  10. Swimaster Lifeliner
92 $1.00
October
1974
23,
10
The Majestic Purple Medusa
Shipwreck Poem Leads To Sunken Treasure
Dive Bahamas' Great Rum Cay Wreck
Shark Research - Fact or Fiction?

E. What Happened to Watermanship?
  1. Shark Research--Fact or Fiction?
  2. Rum Cay Wreck
  3. Spearfishing Techniques
  4. The Mystery of the Valiant Vessel
  5. Color It Purple
  6. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
  7. The Zip-on Wet Suit
  8. Trapped
  9. Purple Striped Jellyfish
  10. The Ill-fated Arundo
88 $1.00
November
1974
23,
11
A Conversation with Cousteau
Diary Of A Bends Victim
REEF CRUISING - SOMETHING NEW FOR DIVERS

E. Bends is More Than a Pain in the Elbow...
  1. Cousteau...On the Cousteau Society
  2. Diving Thrills in the South Pacific
  3. Reef Cruising in Bonaire
  4. Diary of a Bends Victim
  5. The Lure of Cave Diving
  6. Living Jewels of the Reef
  7. Underwater Photography...A Feminine Focus
  8. San Francisco's Challenge to Wreck Diving
  9. The Long Hose Octopus
  10. Oceanic Products
88 $1.00
December
1974
23,
12
Island Hopping In The BAHAMAS
Origins Of Ancient Antiquities
By Robert Marx
California Wreck Divers
An Extraordinary Club
4400 PSI Scuba
SDM Exclusive Test

E. There Ought to be a Law
  1. Bahamas Bound
  2. Origins of Ancient Antiquities
  3. California Wreck Divers
  4. 4400 PSI Scuba
  5. Sea Grant: A Venture into the Hydrosphere
  6. Crinoids of the Coral Sea
  7. U/W Photography Quick and Easy
  8. A Process We Call Evolution
  9. Del Mar Supplies, Inc.
  10. Where Scorpion Lies
80 $1.00

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