Even after the Coast Guard suspended its search for missing Rockledge diver Nikki Cuomo, her family, friends and fellow divers refuse to give up. They spearheaded a search that included five private planes and several boats, and elicited hundreds of ...
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Aquanauts Begin Undersea Mission In The Keys
Six scientists have begun a nine-day mission in the world’s only permanent working undersea laboratory to study changes to corals and marine life off the Florida Keys. The scientists will live underwater and broadcast their activities over the Web to ...
Read More »Studying stress while diving with Sharks
The professor who investigates the psychobiology of stress is getting unwanted attention from the hungry leopard shark. The professor hovers under 20 feet of water. She clutches a container of delightfully stinky goodies — chopped shrimp, squid, krill — and ...
Read More »BuddyCall: Meet the next great thing
Scientific divers of New Zealand are proud to introduce Buddycall®- a device that will revolutionize personal underwater signaling and emergency response. It brings a new dimension to diver safety and communication. It is not only smart. It is practical, and ...
Read More »Second Life : Virtually PADI? Or Virtually Stupid?
So we get the whole idea of E-learning. You connect your PC, you get information about how to dive, you do your little knowledge reviews and then you arrive to the dive center ready to dive…. right? Yep, bye bye ...
Read More »Biologists amazed as manta rays spotted off California coast
An unusual sighting occurred on the coast this week when three large manta rays were spotted about eight miles off Dana Point. Brian Woolley, captain of the Sum Fun boat out of Dana Wharf Sportfishing, at first thought the ripples ...
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