The 1000th specimen of the world’s largest and most cryptic fish, the whale shark, has been identified thanks to global efforts by hundreds of ‘citizen scientists’ and eco-tourists. ECOCEAN, the group behind a unique, award-winning* conservation effort to save the ...
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How to Kill a Novice Diver
THE coronial inquest into the death of honeymooning scuba diver Tina Watson was told yesterday it would be “very easy” to kill an inexperienced diver underwater. Barrister Damien Atkinson, representing dive operator Mike Ball Expeditions, posed the scenario in cross-examining ...
Read More »Mystery of the headless diver resurfaces again
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 ...
Read More »Scuba Killer waits Extradition order
A Rhode Island dive shop owner is facing extradition to the British Virgin Islands, where he is accused of killing his wife during a scuba diving trip in 1999. more stories like this US marshals arrested David Swain yesterday at ...
Read More »Scuba Diving in Dahab
A land of magnificent World Heritage sites and a thousand tourist clichés, Egypt was enticing visitors for millennia before Thomas Cook first steamed up the Nile. It was in Egypt that the Holy Family sheltered and Mark Antony flirted. Napoleon ...
Read More »First Dive Trip ends in Explosion
When Battle Ground’s Mike and Brenda Dobbs booked a two-week vacation to go scuba diving in the waters around Belize, they expected to be amazed by the underwater views. It turned out the most shocking thing they saw was above ...
Read More »Scientists living underwater
Students, faculty and staff who are interested in learning more about the health of marine ecosystems–particularly coral reefs–and those who want to learn about how scientists conduct research while living underwater will soon have a unique opportunity. Art Trembanis, UD ...
Read More »Scuba Diving in Jamaica
Jamaica is being considered a possible site for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Underwater Cultural Heritage Regional Centre. Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange, told JIS News that Jamaica is at the “top ...
Read More »HydroOptix Double-Dome Dive Mask
By Jon Kranhouse Growing up in Southern California in the early 60’s, listening to the Beach Boys… it was inevitable that I would become a “water baby.” Mom introduced me to swimming when I was three, and I started ocean-snorkeling ...
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