An email has been languishing in my inbox for months regarding the release of Triangle, the latest novel in the Seeds of Civilization undersea adventure series.

New novel is set 2,100 feet deep in the “lost city of Cuba” Little is known about the actual discovery of “MEGA”—a city submerged in more than 2,000 feet of water off the Western tip of Cuba. While secrecy still clouds the real site, Archer takes his readers on a fictional tour of the underwater ruins and reveals some amazing connections to both the island of Cuba and the mysteries of the Bahamas.

I haven’t read the book and passing it along if you’re into this sort of thing.

Web badges…they’re everywhere. It’s nice to see a consistently sized graphic image replace boring text links although they can become like those super-annoying animated GIFs when overused.

In any event, I couldn’t find a scuba diving logbook badge so I created one with images borrowed from Google Images, Photoshop, and Brilliant Button Maker. Download, use, enjoy.

In mid-January Divester posted about Scuba Diving Safety written by Dan Orr and Eric Douglas. Dan is President of DAN and Eric has written Flooding Hollywood that I mentioned at Divester.

Eric dropped me a note a few days ago that Scuba Diving Safety is available for pre-order. Price is $21.95 and ships in April.

If you’d rather dive into some fiction check out Eric’s other novel and short stories.

While I was writing for Divester I maintained a list of news sources by way of RSS. I’ve made them available for download (OPML format) if you want to make your life a little easier when searching for diving news. You may find them more useful than the DiveClips web site.

One of my common complaints about the scuba diving web-blogo-sphere is the vast number of sites that are redundant or left to die without any activity. I’ve another hundred or so sites that didn’t make it into my RSS reader, most of them falling into this category.

For visitors coming here after news of Divester’s retirement, hello!

It was a great run thanks to Willy’s devotion. Sadly, there isn’t a replacement for Divester and where you thnk it would exist (something centralized from PADI or ScubaDiving.com), it doesn’t. But you can be sure that wherever you find Willy, you’ll find the center of the diving blogosphere.

My personal blog (hint: you are here) is a hodge-podge of topics but stick around. I’ll resume posting “eco-ocean-friendly” stories for subjects that really light me up. If you’re a recent Mac convert or considering becoming one, stay tuned for a project I’m launching in mid-February.

Drop me a note if you keep a blog and I’ll add you to my RSS reader.