Browsing Month January, 2009
Bahamas: Doing things right !
By Scuba Herald at January 28, 2009 | 3:59 pm | 0 Comment
The Bahamas government has created a marine reserve off the island of North Bimini, preserving critical mangrove habitat and a shark nursery that had come under threat from a resort there. The reserve, which will be protected from most fishing and other "extractive activities," is home to endangered species such as the Nassau grouper and the Bimini boa, as well as a more...
Did you see that fish with 2 heads mate?
By Scuba Herald at January 28, 2009 | 3:55 pm | 1 Comments
The Queensland Government has set up a task force to investigate fish abnormalities and deaths in the Noosa River on the Sunshine Coast. An independent fish expert Dr Matt Landos will join staff from the Department of Primary Industries, the Environmental Protection Agency and Queensland Health in a meeting in Brisbane today. Locals are concerned that agricultural more...
This is why we dive!
By Scuba Herald at January 14, 2009 | 12:20 am | 0 Comment
Video from Jon Baber, enjoying Scuba Diving in more...
Diver looses leg in Florida, horrible accident
By Scuba Herald at January 14, 2009 | 12:05 am | 1 Comments
A Palm Beach County man lost his legs after being run over by a boat while diving near a popular Martin County park Friday afternoon, according to state officials. Robert Murphy, 26, was among divers who were spear-fishing in the St. Lucie River near Sandsprit Park around 2 p.m., said state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Gabriella Ferraro. A more...
Dead Diver in the Blue Hole
By Scuba Herald at January 14, 2009 | 12:02 am | 0 Comment
Divers found the body of a missing scuba diver in Blue Hole, a renowned dive site in Belize. Authorities told ScubaHerald the body has not yet been recovered and identified, however, they believe the remains are an American doctor from Miami, Florida, who disappeared while scuba diving at Blue Hole in 2001. The divers, who found the body at a depth of three hundred more...
Another Bizarre underwater record.
By Scuba Herald at January 14, 2009 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
Most people don't look forward to tackling the pile of un-ironed clothes in their laundry basket. And for John Lynch the decision to pick up an iron on Saturday ended up with him in deep water. As the 38-year-old from Sheringham laboured over an ironing board, he was 12m under water and wearing scuba gear. Mr Lynch was joined by 130 other divers in a former more...
Moko the Dolphins Fails to rescue Whale
By Scuba Herald at January 13, 2009 | 11:56 pm | 0 Comment
Moko the dolphin was too busy frolicking with her human company to save a stranded whale which died on an East Coast beach on Monday. The adult male pygmy sperm whale initially stranded on Mahia beach near the golf club. Moko led a group of stranded whales back out to sea late last year, but Department of Conservation Wairoa field centre supervisor Malcolm Smith more...
