month, year
| vol, num
| front cover
| cover text | articles (E = Editorial)
| # of pages
| cover price
|
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?
- The Andrea Doria Caper
- The Current Club
- Butterflies are Fish
- Treasure Diving for Fun and Failure
- Featuring John C. Peterson
- Colonel John D. Craig
- The Goldmaster Amphibian Model BF-8 Metal Detector
- U/W Photography Quick and Easy
- Tor Furumo
- Only for a Friend
- -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
- The Andrea Doria Caper
- The Galapagos Trip
- U/W Photography Quick and Easy
- Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
- Under the Cloak of Night
- Aquatic Anomalies
- The Playful Porpoises
- Maine Lobsters
- Postal Gallery of Skin Diving Art
- 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
- In Defense of Spearfishing
- The Twisted Fate of the U-853
- Stella Maris--Eternal Paradise
- Exposé on the Coral Gougers
- Truk's Magnificent Seven
- The Egg Cowrie
- U/W Photography Quick and Easy
- 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
- Innerspace Flight Training
- Guam - Gateway to Micronesia
- U.S. Divers' UDS-1
- Let's Get It On!
- Preserving a Rare But Transient Heritage
- U/W Photography Quick and Easy
- Squid
- Deadly Cocktail?
- Comments from the Silent Majority
- 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
- Treasure of Nuestra Senora de la Maravilla
- Bonaire Nightlife
- Posterize Those Pix
- U/W Photography Quick and Easy
- The Spotted Eagle Ray
- Jade Cove
- Buoyancy Compensator Roundup
- Letters from the Silent Majority
- 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...
- Revolutionary Weapon
- Blow an Air Ring
- UDT/SEAL: A Fierce Desire to Succeed
- A Second Look at the At-Pak
- Bite into Your Own Mouldable Mouthpiece
- Featuring Henk Otto
- Abalone - An Endangered Species
- Tale of a Sea Dragon
- 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
- Lockout at 700 Feet
- Provo
- A Diver's Guide to Long Island, New York
- Divers' Instrument Panels
- Deep Sea Diving is Alive and Well
- The Sea Anemone Tealia
- Eat Better, Dive Better
- U/W Photography Quick and Easy
- 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
- Hard Dives on the Doria
- SDM Diving Guide to Truk
- Where the Fish Roam Free
- The Supersuit by O'Neill
- The Greenhouse
- PDIC: Certification for a Career
- To Spear or Not to Spear
- Hors D'Oeuvres for Hogfish
- Oil from the Bottom of the Sea
- 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...
- Tobago's Fabulous Flying Reef
- Fair Wind at Kona
- U/W Archaeology: The State of the Art
- Logical Fallacies of Spearfishing
- How Pure is the Air We Breathe?
- Scubapoker--A $5000 Pot
- Bridging the Diver Education Gap
- U/W Photography Quick & Easy
- Fan Worms
- 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?
- Shark Research--Fact or Fiction?
- Rum Cay Wreck
- Spearfishing Techniques
- The Mystery of the Valiant Vessel
- Color It Purple
- U/W Photography Quick and Easy
- The Zip-on Wet Suit
- Trapped
- Purple Striped Jellyfish
- 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...
- Cousteau...On the Cousteau Society
- Diving Thrills in the South Pacific
- Reef Cruising in Bonaire
- Diary of a Bends Victim
- The Lure of Cave Diving
- Living Jewels of the Reef
- Underwater Photography...A Feminine Focus
- San Francisco's Challenge to Wreck Diving
- The Long Hose Octopus
- 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
- Bahamas Bound
- Origins of Ancient Antiquities
- California Wreck Divers
- 4400 PSI Scuba
- Sea Grant: A Venture into the Hydrosphere
- Crinoids of the Coral Sea
- U/W Photography Quick and Easy
- A Process We Call Evolution
- Del Mar Supplies, Inc.
- Where Scorpion Lies
|
80 |
$1.00 |