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Alert Diver is the dive industry’s leading publication. Featuring DAN’s core content of dive safety, research, education and medical information, each issue is a must-read reference, archived and shared by passionate scuba enthusiasts. In addition, Alert Diver showcases fascinating dive destinations and marine environmental topics through images from the world’s greatest underwater photographers and stories from the most experienced and eloquent dive journalists in the business.

Alert Diver is the dive industry’s leading publication. Featuring DAN’s core content of dive safety, research, education and medical information, each issue is a must-read reference, archived and shared by passionate scuba enthusiasts. In addition, Alert Diver showcases fascinating dive destinations and marine environmental topics through images from the world’s greatest underwater photographers and stories from the most experienced and eloquent dive journalists in the business.

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existence to the region’s volcanic origins. We have come<br />

to the epicenter of marine diversity, and we are keen to<br />

dive into this cauldron of creation.<br />

Armed with macro lenses, we submerge to taste the<br />

waters at The Brewery. Poking along this shallow sandy<br />

slope off Lembata Island, we find weird and wonderful<br />

critters aplenty: a wonderpus showing off, a brightyellow<br />

winged pipefish, psychedelic nudibranchs, leaf<br />

fish and a bold peacock mantis shrimp on walkabout. At<br />

night the action heats up with squid following us around,<br />

creepy devil scorpionfish and stargazers, a variety of<br />

crabs and so much more lurking in the shadows. This<br />

easy and productive site is one of many excellent muck<br />

dives on our 13-day itinerary. During dinner and the first<br />

of many slideshows we learn it was discovered by Aussie<br />

shark-diving legend Valerie Taylor.<br />

Batu Tara Volcano on the island of Komba<br />

in Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands sends<br />

up a plume of ash. The volcano’s summit<br />

is almost 2,500 feet above the Flores Sea,<br />

but this stratovolcano actually rises nearly<br />

10,000 feet from its base beneath the<br />

waves. One of numerous active volcanoes<br />

in the area, Batu Tara has been very<br />

active since 2006 with regular explosive<br />

eruptions of ash and rocks.<br />

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