The Marine Life Society of South Australia’s literature collection includes a range of periodicals on the subject of diving. The magazines listed below were donated by Steve Selbach of Elite Dive Academy, Peter Horne, Andrew Hunter, Diving Adelaide, Sam Powrie and Steve Reynolds. The collection is available to access at the Port Environment Centre in Port Adelaide.

The following collections are incomplete (there are spare copies of some issues):

“Advanced Diver Magazine” – No.13

“Asian Diver” – Issues from Oct 1998 to Jan 2003

“Asian Geographic” – June- Aug 2000 (a single magazine)

“Asia-Pacific Alert Diver” (DAN) – Issues from July 2000 to Dec 2010

“Australasia Scuba Diver” – Issues from Oct 2001 to Issue 6, 2010

“Australian Scuba Diver” – Issues from Sept 1996 to June 2001

“Dive Pacific” – Aug 2002 (No.71), issue No.85, Apr/May 2007 (No.99)

“Dive” – Mar 2002, Feb 2011

“Diver” – Oct 2000, Feb 2002, Nov 2002

“Diver” (Canadian) – Nov 2002

“Divers” – Issue No.1

“Diving Adventure” – Issue No.1

“Immersed” – Issues from Fall 2002 (7/3) to Summer 2003 (8/2)

“Petersen’s Photographic Magazine” – July 1979

“Photographic World” – Vol.3 No.1 (Jan 1980)

“Rodale’s Scuba Diving” – June 1992

“Scuba (BSAC) – June 2013 (No.19)

“Scuba Diver” – Dec 84/Jan 85 to Apr/May 1986

“Skin Diver” – Mar 1977 to Dec 1987, July 2002, Oct 2002

“Sport Diver” (PADI) – Fall 1979 to Mar/Apr 1981, Apr 2001, Dec 2002

“Sport Diving” – Issues from Mar/Apr 1987 to Mar 2005 (No.108), plus Aug/Sept 2010 (No.141) and Papua New Guinea special issue

“Subaqua Scene” – Sept 1985

“Tauchen” (Europe) – No.8 Aug 2005

“The Scuba Diver” – Vol.1 No.2 Feb 1982, Vol.2 No.2 July 1983

“The Undersea Journal” (PADI) – Issues from 1999 to 2004

“Undersea – The PADI Undersea Journal” – Issues from 1999 to 2002

“Unterwasser” (Germany) – 6/1999, 3/2002

“Underwater World” – Dec 1979

“West Coast Diver” – Nov 2005

“Submerged Nation” (AMCS) – Issue No.3

“Dive Log Australasia” – July 2014 (No.312) to May 2016 (No.334)

“Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic” No.29, Winter 1990

“Skindiving in Australia & the South Pacific” – Vol.10, No.4 to Vol.15, No3

“Skindiving in Australia & New Zealand” – Vol.6 No.5 to Vol.10 No.1

“Scuba Diver Australia & New Zealand” Issue 18

“Scientific American” August 1995 (featuring “The Physiology of Decompression Illness”)

“Ocean Realm” Magazine of the Sea 1996 – 2000 (From the Sam Powrie Collection)

By Steve Reynolds

Steve Reynolds is the current President of MLSSA and is a long-standing member of the Society. Steve is a keen diver, underwater explorer, photographer and is chief author of the Society's extensive back catalogue of newsletters and journals.

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