The dreaded morning-after feeling could be a thing of the past after scientists in South Korea came up with a technique that allows drinkers to avoid a hangover, Sky News reported Thursday. A team of researchers added extra oxygen to drinks and found that the body was then able to metabolize the booze quicker and eliminate the alcohol quicker — cutting down the after affects. Healthy humans were given 8 ounce and 12 ounce drinks containing 19.5 percent alcohol by volume — all with different amounts of oxygen added. The results, documented in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and

Pretty crazy Brit considering that Mitch and I were contemplating going for the record this summer. We were planning on breaking the old record of 28 hours underwater. I guess the Brit new something was up and decided to go for it big time!! Well hats off to you my friend across the pond, you really out did yourself, 48+ hours under the water is pretty amazing stuff.

BY SUSAN COCKING SCOCKING@MIAMIHERALD.COM Miami Herald Just in time for 2010, Miami-Dade County is about to get its largest artificial reef deployed by and for the sport-diving community. A local scuba diving organization called Miami-Dade Reef Guard Association (MIRA) -- headed by Miami Beach dive operator Mike Beach -- said that the 210-foot freighter Sea Taxi is scheduled for sinking off Key Biscayne on Dec. 30. With help from Miami-Dade County's Department of Environmental Resources Management, workers from the Bruce Schurgar Company are slated to put the ship down in 100 feet of

Just in time for 2010, Miami-Dade County is about to get its largest artificial reef deployed by and for the sport-diving community. A local scuba diving organization called Miami-Dade Reef Guard Association (MIRA) -- headed by Miami Beach dive operator Mike Beach -- said that the 210-foot freighter Sea Taxi is scheduled for sinking off Key Biscayne on Dec. 30. With help from Miami-Dade County's Department of Environmental Resources Management, workers from the Bruce Schurgar Company are slated to put the ship down in 100 feet of water. ``This will be the first wreck we've had in

Want to take a stroll down memory lane. Then bust out your old log books and start digitizing them onto your profile at ScubaNation. I recently started adding in my first dives as a newly certified diver in the Boston area. I was 18 years old and diving Marblehead and Nahant. Usually shore diving but also off of a 10 foot zodiac. Awesome stuff. Got to relive those beautiful summer days in Boston when catching lobsters and seeing sand sharks was all we dreamed about. Henry and Aaron both members of the Nation have done the same. With 40+ and 38 dives logged respectively they both have taken

Social Media has taken the world by storm!! And has swept with it scuba divers worldwide. Scuba divers are pretty savvy when it comes to new technology and the internet; it seems with the dawn of social media divers worldwide connected in a way like no other sport, passion, or common interest group. On Facebook I have friends (total strangers at first really) from England, Indonesia, Australia, Italy, Germany, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Japan, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, and many more just because we share the same love of the ocean. I get a friend request from

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