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Want to write for
The SCUBA Stop?
What we are looking for
We want to change the way our educate our readers, whether that
means introducing a revolutionary diving technique, challenging the
dive community to ditch bad practices, refuting common wisdom,
helping pick a great new piece of equipment, or helping plan that
next diving vacation.
If your article can do that, we want to see it.
What we’re not looking for
Most of the articles out there are nothing more than an abstracted
sales pitch or material that does not contain any valuable
information, therefore is useless to the reader.
There are hundreds of other places to push your agenda, advertise
your product or services, or bash a particular diving style. Please
keep your articles positive and your reviews fact based.
How to write an article for The SCUBA Stop
- Use quotes to enhance the article. Make sure that your
quotes, or any descriptive background information, are relevant and
factual.
- Most paragraphs in news articles contain a maximum of three
sentences.
- Articles should be written without bias. You should report
the facts objectively. Steer clear of giving personal opinions in
your article.
- Personal opinions are expected in reviews but should still
remain objective.
- Do not write in the first person.
- Don’t use a lot of flowery descriptive language. Get to
the point.
How to submit an article for consideration
Please use our submission form. We try to review submissions at
least once a week, but sometimes it takes longer. Patience is a
virtue. There are five acceptable formats for the delivery of the final
draft of your article:
- XHTML
- OpenOffice Writer ODT
- Microsoft Word DOC or RTF
- Adobe PDF
- Plain text
If you use XHTML, please limit yourself to clean, simple markup.
The h1 element is reserved for use as a page header, so please use h2
through h4 as needed in your article.
If you use Microsoft Word or plain text, please put link text in
square brackets, with the URL in parentheses following your link text
(or use Textile marks).
Plain text articles will not have any images.
The SCUBA Stop reserves the right to edit articles for format,
spelling, or grammatical errors.
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