Editorial
Quadriplegic Athlete from St. Cloud learns to scuba dive
By Scuba Herald at December 9, 2007 | 4:16 am | 0 Comment
Aaron Cross has spent recent weeks traveling to schools throughout Minnesota and other nearby states, sharing motivational messages with students and stressing the importance of setting and achieving goals. But Cross isn't all talk. The 32-year-old St. Cloud man, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a bicycling accident when he was 15, hasn't let anything stop him from more...
Mystery of the headless diver resurfaces again
By Scuba Herald at November 17, 2007 | 4:20 am | 0 Comment
Lionel "Buster" Crabb, the ex-Navy diver who slipped into the waters off Portsmouth 51 Aprils ago and was never seen alive again, resurfaced yesterday with the usual froth of hot air. Known to have been poking about the hull of the Russian warship Ordzhonikidze that brought Soviet President Nikita Krushchev to Britain, his body was found 14 months later minus its head. more...
4 year old boy swims with beluga whale
By Scuba Herald at October 27, 2007 | 6:02 am | 0 Comment
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 of the water. "Today was OK," Huang Yan said nonchalantly after swimming more...
Go and Dive with Matt
By Scuba Herald at October 15, 2007 | 4:23 am | 0 Comment
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 able to do so. This year is different. We will have spots available on the boat with Matt and on more...
Lazy divers bring new hope for local women in Indonesia
By Scuba Herald at October 11, 2007 | 4:00 am | 0 Comment
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 now work carrying diving equipment the more...
Leave the whales alone…
By Scuba Herald at October 9, 2007 | 8:31 pm | 0 Comment
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, unexpectedly turned on Ms Vollhardt more...
Go to Jail and learn to dive!
By Scuba Herald at December 5, 2006 | 6:32 am | 0 Comment
Open Water Prisoner Diver? A landlocked California (PADI home state!) men's prison aims to keep inmates from returning to jail by putting them in deep water - training them for undersea construction and dam repair. A landlocked California men's prison aims to keep inmates from returning to jail by putting them in deep water - training them for undersea construction and more...
