Posts Tagged ‘Rhode Island’

Newport Rhode Island dive guide

// June 21st, 2010 // 2 Comments » // USA Dive Guide

A playground for the wealthy since the 1700s, Newport, R.I., is better known for its annual jazz festival, sailing competitions and rows of stately mansions than for its diving. However, if you’re invited to “go for subs” while in this New England resort hamlet, grab your dive gear, because it probably isn’t a lunch date.

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4 Great American Shark Dives Florida dive guide

// June 21st, 2010 // 1 Comment » // USA Dive Guide

Not since last century’s slaughter of whales has an animal been so doggedly hunted. And talk about bad press: The fearsome, loathsome shark has long since replaced Moby Dick as the symbol of all that we puny humans fear about the sea. No wonder we kill them by the millions, for their fins, for their cartilage, for the sheer hell of it.

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