
Scientists exploring a deep ocean basin in search of species isolated for millions of years found marine life believed to be previously undiscovered, including a tentacled orange worm and an unusual black jellyfish. Project leader Dr. Larry Madin said Tuesday that U.S. and Philippine scientists collected about 100 different specimens in a search in the [...]
October 31, 2007 | Posted in
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With lethargic grace, the hammerhead shark slices through the blue gloom. It flicks its T-shaped head this way and that, surveying its underwater domain with the surety of knowing that the food chain comes to an abrupt end in its mouth. The shark is cruising some 20 feet beneath me as I snorkel through the [...]
October 31, 2007 | Posted in
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The mysterious “mass suicide” of 152 dolphins washed up on Iran’s coast over the past month has alarmed environmentalists, with the blame pointed at regional fishing practices, officials said on Monday. In September, 79 striped dolphins were found washed up near Jask port in southern Iran, and last week another 73 were found dead in [...]
October 30, 2007 | Posted in
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The 4-year-old boy took a breath, ducked underwater and planted a kiss on the huge whale beside him. A trainer then lifted Huang Yan onto the back of the beluga whale, which is about 30 times his size, and the little boy sat astride the animal’s back as it glided smoothly just under the surface [...]
October 27, 2007 | Posted in
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Egyptian police have halted their search for three missing Russian divers in the Red Sea, and official said Monday, but a private diving rescue service said it will continue the search for another day. The divers went missing in the Red Sea waters on Wednesday while diving at the Elphinstone Reef, southeast of the resort [...]
October 27, 2007 | Posted in
Dive Safety |
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Coral reefs die for many reasons, both from natural disasters and manmade pressures. A reef system that took hundreds of years to grow can be destroyed in a single day. When reefs die, fish populations disappear, fishermen lose their livelihoods, and tourists disappear. Whilst reef conservation is the most cost effective counter-measure, many believe that [...]
October 26, 2007 | Posted in
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Tremendous Value with Uncompromising Performance The Envoy is an incredible value, matching or exceeding the performance of regulators costing much more. If you are looking for an economical regulator that doesn’t compromise on performance or reliability, you can’t do better than the Envoy
Zeagle produces some of the best performing and most reliable regulators made anywhere, [...]
October 24, 2007 | Posted in
Scuba Products |
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Hasankeyf in southeast Turkey has been home to Assyrians, Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans over the past 3,000 years, and has the monuments to prove it. Visitors may soon need scuba gear to see them. Turkey plans to build a $1.7 billion dam to generate power from the Tigris River, which flows through Hasankeyf en route [...]
October 21, 2007 | Posted in
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Early next week, the 140-metre-long Ile de Seine – one of the largest cable-laying ships in the world – will pull into Port Alberni harbour in British Columbia, completing the first chapter of a mammoth research project to unlock the secrets of the ocean depths. The project, known as NEPTUNE, will create a permanent underwater [...]
October 16, 2007 | Posted in
Marine Science |
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For some of the best diving in the Caribbean look no further than the idyllic island of Grenada and its sister islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Located in the Eastern Caribbean, the southernmost end of the Windward Islands and 180 miles north of Venezuela, this Isle of Spice benefits from a pleasant year-round climate, [...]
October 16, 2007 | Posted in
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Once again Matt “Aqua-Man” Johnston will be coming to the Florida Keys to dive with Conch Republic Divers. This year he’ll be here November 2th – 9th, 2007. Last year we had the Today Show cover his dives and in doing so a lot of people who came down to dive with Matt were not [...]
October 15, 2007 | Posted in
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Fort Collins, CO. Scuba Schools International (SSI), the premier education and business organization announces the launch of the new SSI Digital Underwater Photography specialty program at DEMA 2007. The program covers everything that any new or aspiring underwater photographer needs to know to take successful underwater digital photos.
The program includes a high quality full color [...]
October 11, 2007 | Posted in
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Before Ni Nengah Dempi joined the Sekar Baruna women’s cooperative in Tulamben, Karang Asem, it was a daily struggle to feed her five children. The cooperative is located near a number of popular diving destinations some 90 kilometers east of the provincial capital of Denpasar. Dempi and some 28 other women and girls from Tulamben [...]
October 11, 2007 | Posted in
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Spanish marine park’s killer whale has lived up to its name with a frightening attack — smashing a female trainer with its snout, biting her arm and dragging her underwater repeatedly. The trainer, Claudia Vollhardt of Germany, remains in hospital with a broken arm and a badly bruised chest.
The 1.36 tonne male orca, named Tekoa, [...]
October 9, 2007 | Posted in
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