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REASONS TO GO
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DIVING IN 2016
Arm yourself with these
incontrovertible justifications
for going out and getting wet
this year
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ASIA DIVE EXPO
96 THE
The region’s best dive show
FROM THE EDITOR
is all grown up...
We’ve all been there. You’re booking your next bucket-list dive trip and you
get that inevitable look, the look that says, “I think you’ve got a problem”,
and implies that you need some sort of intervention. And then they see you
drooling over that new BCD (check out p45), and the eyebrows go up while
they ask you (pointedly) how much you think diving might be taking over
your life.
Some people just don’t get it.
Well, fret not; we’ve put together 61 irrefutable reasons why you really
should go diving in 2016. Arm yourself with just a handful of these and not
only will you be able to shut down that judgemental nonsense once and for
all, but they’re soon going to be asking you for tips on where and how to
get certified. You can then casually and confidently refer them to the more
than 80 enticing dive operators listed from page six… Just be sure to have
your “I told you so’s” ready for when they come back with the bug!
On the cover
Give in to your diving
cravings in 2016
www.uw360.asia/SDAA
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Alert Diver
From DAN Asia Pacific
Stephen Frink
(You’re welcome.)