An image of a fabulous father has won the top prize in The Wildlife Trusts’ category of the British Society of Underwater Photographers (BSoUP) / DIVER Print Competition 2009. Robert Bailey scooped first prize this year, with a shot of a male corkwing wrasse building a nest among a backdrop of powder puff-like corals.
With its [...]
April 12, 2009 | Posted in
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Eagle Creek – USA resident Juana Marian Gilnett, 42, died as a result of a scuba diving accident in Hood Canal east of Seattle in northwestern Washington.
Gilnett had been diving with a 44-year-old Portland resident Bryan Southard on the afternoon of Sunday, March 22, near Sund Rock, when the two lost track of time and [...]
April 8, 2009 | Posted in
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We all know that all companies try to sell us scuba diving watches… but what if your scuba watch is just a master piece. Ok… I know what you are thinking, oh god.. he is trying to sell us a watch of an advertiser… well… no really, but I bet it will be lovely to [...]
April 7, 2009 | Posted in
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So it seems like with dogs, Sharks bite and eat (you) depending of your body language based on Mike Rutzen a top diver (and a pretty brave guy) that dives with great white sharks without a cage. How cool is that? While he isn’t the first to do it, he’s taken shark diving to a [...]
April 7, 2009 | Posted in
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The Indian Ocean Explorer live-aboard scuba diving tourist boat popular with British diving enthusiasts carrying a crew of seven has been boarded by Somali pirates near the Seychelles, hundreds of miles from the hijackers’ lair on the East African coast.
The Indian Ocean Explorer had just dropped her passengers on Assumption Island when she was attacked, [...]
April 3, 2009 | Posted in
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Tokyo offers its residents many pleasures, but scuba diving hasn’t been one of them, until this week. To launch their latest luxury resorts in Okinawa, InterContinental Hotels Group and its partner in Japan, ANA Hotels, suspended a pair of scuba divers off the Sony Building in Ginza, Tokyo’s premier commercial district.
The stunt, orchestrated by McCann [...]
April 3, 2009 | Posted in
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A man who faked his own death in an alleged scuba diving accident has been arrested by police in Vegas for trying to cheat money out of a casino.
John Sung Park, 29, from Buena Park, CA, was detained earlier this week by Nevada Gaming Board officers after being spotted by staff at MGM Grand Casino [...]
April 3, 2009 | Posted in
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Finally this moment has arrived. The moment where Scuba Diving is completed. where we can all say: We did it. Yes guys, this is it… Paris hilton scuba diving…. is this as good as it gets? well may be it is… may be this is the final objective of any dive center, to have the [...]
March 17, 2009 | Posted in
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Thai marine police on Tuesday found the body of a missing scuba diver floating near the site where a boat sunk in a sudden storm after a diving tour to the Similan Islands, leaving six foreigners and a Thai national missing and believed drowned.
“We found the body of a Western woman but we couldn’t identify [...]
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February 19, 2009 | Posted in
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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 [...]
January 28, 2009 | Posted in
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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 [...]
January 28, 2009 | Posted in
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Video from Jon Baber, enjoying Scuba Diving in Fiji
January 14, 2009 | Posted in
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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 [...]
January 14, 2009 | Posted in
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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 [...]
January 14, 2009 | Posted in
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