Date
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Highlights
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| April, 2008 |
Safety Corner - Exercises to keep your back Scuba-Ready |
| March, 2008 |
Safety Corner - Out of Breath |
| February, 2008 |
Safety Corner - Basic Safety Precautions & Insurance |
| January, 2008 |
Safety Corner - "Lessons for Life" |
| December, 2007 |
Safety Corner - A Fin Selection Primer |
| November, 2007 |
Safety Corner - Night Skills |
| October, 2007 |
Safety Corner - Adventures in Live-Aboard Diving |
| September, 2007 |
Safety Corner - Checking Your Dive Gear |
| August, 2007 |
Safety Corner - Dive Flag - Rules & Regs. |
| July, 2007 |
Safety Corner - How to Conserve Body Heat |
| June, 2007 |
Safety Corner - How Deep is Too Deep? |
| May, 2007 |
Safety Corner - Proper Liquid Management |
| April, 2007 |
Safety Corner - Diving Physics, Physiology and |
| March, 2007 |
Safety Corner - Clearing and Ear Safety
Tip Column - 10 Ways to Stay Warm Underwater |
| February, 2007 |
Safety Corner - A Bad |
| January, 2007 |
Safety Corner - Dive Boat |
| December, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Penetrating Questions |
| November, 2006 |
Safety Corner - What to Eat When You Dive |
| October, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Dangerous Creatures/Safety Precautions |
| September, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Dive Courtesy/Civility |
| August, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Dive Insurance |
| July, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Lost at Sea |
| June, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Healthy Travel Checklist |
| May, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Equipment Care |
| April, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Scuba Rescue Plans - Part 2 |
| March, 2006 |
General information |
| February, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Scuba Rescue Plans - Part 1 |
| January, 2006 |
Safety Corner - Survival Gear Failure |
| December, 2005 |
Safety Corner - Malaria - What you should know |
| November, 2005 |
Safety Corner - Acclimatization to Diving in Cold Water |
| October, 2005 |
Safety Corner - Abandoned at Sea:
- How to Prevent
- What to do if it Happens |
| September, 2005 |
Safety Corner - How to Lower Diving Risks |
| August, 2005 |
Safety Corner - Dive Flag Safety |
| July, 2005 |
Safety Corner - Dry mouth, Hydration, Dehydration |
| June, 2005 |
Safety Corner - "Land Sickness" &
"Beach Boo-Boos" |
| May, 2005 |
Safety Corner - Dive Headaches - Cause and Prevention |
| April, 2005 |
Safety Corner - How Deep is Too Deep? |
| March, 2005 |
Safety Corner - Diving Instrumentation
--18 Rules for Safer Computer Usage |
| February, 2005 |
Safety Corner - Panic Attacks in the Water |
| January, 2005 |
Safety Corner - Now That's Using Your Head
-- Equalizing Made Easy
-- Swimmer's Ear
-- Diving With a Cold
-- Vision Correction
-- Nitrogen Narcosis
-- Underwater Panic
-- When Diving Gives You a Headache |
| December, 2004 |
Safety Corner - A Brief History of Scuba Diving |
| November, 2004 |
Safety Corner - Find More Fish - Eight Divemaster Secrets |
| October, 2004 |
Safety Corner - Never Get Lost Again: A 4-Step Program |
| September, 2004 |
Safety Corner - 5 Things You Can Learn from Tech Divers |
| August, 2004 |
Safety Corner - 10 Tips for Better Beach Diving |
| July, 2004 |
Safety Corner - Seven Secrets for Safer Diving: |
| June, 2004 |
Safety Corner - Dive Better, Dive Safer:
-- 15 Seasickness tips
-- 6 Ways to stay warm
-- 10 ways to avoid Nitrogen Narcosis
-- 8 Dive boat Do's and Don'ts
-- 9 Ways to never get lost |
| May, 2004 |
Safety Corner - Dive Better, Dive Safer:
-- 4 Ways to be a better buddy
-- 3 Tips for Out-of-Air Ascent
-- 5 Tips for Mapping a Dive Site
-- 9 Ways to Minimize your DCS Risk
-- 5 Compass Tips |
| April, 2004 |
Safety Corner - Dive Better - Dive Safer |
| March, 2004 |
Safety Corner - Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die
History Segment - Origins of the Bluegrass Dive Club |
| February, 2004 |
Safety Corner - Stop Muscle Soreness Before it Starts |
| January, 2004 |
Safety Corner - Night Skills |
| December, 2003 |
Safety Corner - Suggested items for "Diver's First Aid Kit" and
"Save-a-Dive Kit"
2004 Club Calendar |
| November, 2003 |
Safety Corner - Exercises with a Focus on Diving Benefits |
| October, 2003 |
Safety Corner - The Effects of Weight/Obesity in Diving
Club Weight Loss Challenge |
| September, 2003 |
Safety Corner - Drugs & Diving: Do They Mix? (Part 2/2)
Club Weight Loss Challenge |
| August, 2003 |
Safety Corner - Drugs & Diving: Do They Mix? (Part 1/2) |
| July, 2003 |
Safety Corner - The Missed Briefing
Replacing a Lost C-Card - What To Do |
| June, 2003 |
Safety Corner - An Irresistible Temptation
How to Maintain Your BC |
| May, 2003 |
Mask, Snorkel and Fin Maintenance
How to Wash Your Gear
The Garage: For Cars, Not Gear
Never Do This to Your Gear
Tools You Need
Safety Corner - The Most Important Thing in Scuba Safety . . . . |
| April, 2003 |
Safety Corner - Dangers of Dehydration |
| March, 2003 |
Safety Corner - First-Aid to Save Your Dive - Part 2
On the lighter Side (Top 10 Things Divers Don't Want to
Hear Upon Surfacing)
|
| February, 2003 |
Safety Corner - First-Aid to Save Your Dive - Part 1
Magnetic Navigation (Used by sea creatures) |
| January, 2003 |
2003 Club Calendar
Safety Corner - Jellyfish Stings, Coral Cuts, etc. Prevention &
treatment |
| December, 2002 |
Safety Corner - Sea sickness
Let's Talk Nitrox - an opinion |
| November, 2002 |
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| October, 2002 |
Safety Corner - Even More Diving Rules Changes
On Palau - Update on Jellyfish population after 1999 El Niño |
| September, 2002 |
Safety Corner - More Diving Rules Changes
"Coral Reefs In Rough Shape"
How to Clean Your Regulator |
| August, 2002 |
Safety Corner - Diving Rules Changes
Clowning Around - Facts of interest about Clown fish |
| July, 2002 |
Safety Corner - Diving in Currents
Know What Not To Fix
Stay Smooth, Stay Calm
Will Ear Drops Help or Hurt? |
| June, 2002 |
Safety Corner - Hypothermia |
| May, 2002 |
Safety Corner - How to be a good dive buddy
What is a "Blue Hole"
In the Know: Spotted Eagle Rays |
| April, 2002 |
Safety Corner - Importance of Dive Planning
Reprint from The Caymanian Compass about a dive tragedy |
| March, 2002 |
Safety Corner - Buoyancy |
| February, 2002 |
Safety Corner - Safety Recommendations |
| January, 2002 |
Safety Corner - Cold and Flu Quiz |
|
December, 2001 |
Safety Corner |
|
November, 2001 |
Lessons For Life |
|
October, 2001 |
First-Aid to Save Your Dive: Make Cramps Disappear |
|
September, 2001 |
First-Aid to Save Your Dive: Ear Squeeze |
|
August, 2001 |
Safety First: Are You Dive-Ready?
From Rodale's: First-Aid to Save Your Dive |
| July, 2001 |
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| June, 2001 |
With Safety In Mind: Complacency
|
| May, 2001 |
From Rodale's: Tips for Diving in Surge
|
| April, 2001 |
With Safety In Mind: Flying and Diving
From Rodale's: Runaway Inflation
|
| March, 2001 |
With Safety In Mind: "Scuba sickness" |
| February, 2001 |
With Safety In Mind: Nitrogen narcosis
In the Know: "Fish" tutorial |
| January, 2001 |
With Safety In Mind: Tips to prepare for new dive season
On the lighter Side (Top 5 worst excuses for surfacing with
less than 500 PSI)
|
|
The January, 1999 thru December, 2000 newsletters have
been removed to save space. The contents of these newsletters will
remain here for historical record. If there is any interest in a
particular 1999 or 2000 newsletter, please send an email request to info@BluegrassDiveClub.com |
| December, 2000 |
On the lighter Side (Top 10 excuses for not
earning Open Water certificate)
|
| November, 2000 |
On the lighter Side (The top 10 uses for dive
gear when not diving)
Welcome to the Great Barrier Reef
|
| October, 2000 |
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| September, 2000 |
In the Know: Coral Reefs
|
| August, 2000 |
Stingray City (Grand Cayman) |
| July, 2000 |
On the lighter Side (The top 10 things to say
when a resort course diver is on the dive boat)
|
| June, 2000 |
Great Whites Put The Awe In Jaws
|
| May, 2000 |
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| April, 2000 |
27 Dumb Things That Divers Do |
| March, 2000 |
On the lighter Side (The top 5 signs your
Divemaster is Crazy)
Clownfish & Anemone: A Curious Alliance |
| February, 2000 |
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| January, 2000 |
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| December, 1999 |
In the Know: Go Deep!
On the lighter Side (The top 10 bad Xmas gifts for
divers)
Gear Maintenance: Regulators & Wetsuits |
| November, 1999 |
On the lighter Side (The top 10 signs that
you know more about diving than your instructor)
In the Know: Why do some fish live in only Fresh or Salt Water
and some live in both?
Test Your Knowledge: 9 question trivia test |
| October, 1999 |
Equalizing Made Easy |
| September, 1999 |
What to do if Your Automatic Inflator Sticks
|
| August, 1999 |
What Does a Relaxed Diver Look Like? |
| July, 1999 |
How to Always Surface Near the Boat
Dive Medicine: First-Aid to Save Your Dive (Ear Pain, Sea Sickness,
Cramps, etc.) |
| June, 1999 |
On the lighter Side (The top 5 signs your
dive buddy is a con artist)
In the Know: The Horseshoe Crab |
| May, 1999 |
Stan Waterman Festival Announcement |
| April, 1999 |
Did you Know: How to Reduce Dive Related Stress |
| March, 1999 |
Did You Know: Lure of Deep Water a Danger for Divers -
More Are Exceeding Recreational Limits
On the lighter Side (The top 10 ways to lose an annoying
buddy) |
| February, 1999 |
On the lighter Side (The top 10 things you
won't hear from a dive operator when booking a trip) |
| January, 1999 |
On the lighter Side (The top 5 ways to ruin
the dive for everybody) |