Aqua Lung USA is recalling Titan DIN 1st Stage Scuba Regulators and Titan/Conshelf DIN Scuba Adaptors sold nationwide from January 1997 to September 2008. Over-tightening of the DIN retainer by a technician during installation can result in the retainer breaking under pressure, a rapid escape of air from the scuba cylinder, and the regulator detaching [...]
September 13, 2008 | Posted in
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Bottlenose dolphins suffering from food shortages may be killing their sibling species to take out the competition, scientists have warned.
A series of dead porpoises and young bottlenose dolphins washed up the country’s coastline have borne the animal’s teeth marks.
But the appearance of the body of a rare baby Risso’s dolphin on a beach in the [...]
September 7, 2008 | Posted in
Eco News,
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Oceana released the results of a new study today that finds a strong economic incentive for protecting living ocean resources. Sea the Value: Quantifying the Value of Marine Life to Divers shows that scuba divers are willing to pay more to see healthy corals, sharks and sea turtles.
“Divers are personally invested in the oceans and [...]
August 28, 2008 | Posted in
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The largest-ever post-war salvage operation on the Thames has discovered seven shipwrecks up to 350 years old. They include a warship that was blown up in 1665, a yacht converted to a Second World War gunboat, and a mystery wreck in which divers found a personalised gin bottle.
The vessels, in the Thames Estuary, are just [...]
August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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PADI or SSI? Who will fight and who will win this new market: Scuba Gnoming .
Yep, welcome to the Scuba-stupid news of this Friday! This time we go to Scotland, the land of William Wallace and … mmm Celtic Football club, and of course: Scuba Gnoming, the underwater gnomes!
Because an Edinburgh architect (with a lot [...]
August 14, 2008 | Posted in
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Wetsuit diving? Drysuit diving? Nah… that is so 90’s! Let’s try bubble suit diving. Yep. something different, somehting that you will be able to use just to look like an underwater bug. Don’t believe me? Read it here:
During his post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flynn partnered with his colleague John Bush to [...]
August 12, 2008 | Posted in
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So we hope you had a good week, and if you want to feel better, you can start thanking god, this 2 crooks don’t leave in your town. Divers: Meet the worst crooks and liars in British diving history:
A pair of professional divers swindled £250,000 from the Health Service for treating bogus cases of the [...]
August 8, 2008 | Posted in
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In a joined effort of the Curaçao Chess festival, Lion Dive & Beach Resort, Seaquarium and a couple enthusiastic chess players, an underwater chess tournament was organized on August 2nd and 3rd 2008. On Saturday August 2nd, the Dutch international chess masters Robin Swinkels and Hans Böhm played each other and the next day it [...]
August 5, 2008 | Posted in
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Your Business Name:
ScubaVision Productions
What is your Business about:
Video Production
What are your diving services and what is the best thing about your scuba diving services/product?
Production of underwater video programs, educational programs, dive site tours and other special marine related programs.
What is your Dive Business Philosophy:
We strive to make the viewers feel like they are [...]
August 4, 2008 | Posted in
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We jut found this in Wired Magazine, and yes.. it seems insane, and for sure you will get crazy wanna-be Rambo-Divers that go and buy this lethal Knife.
“No, the Wasp Injector Knife is not a weapon for dispatching Vanderbilts and Roosevelts (although doubtless it could be pressed into this service). It is a surgical stainless [...]
August 3, 2008 | Posted in
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We don’t want to be Ironic, but it seems that us, divers, we believe that we can simply dive any wreck in the world.. and sometimes we may forget that some wrecks may be, are not suppose to be dives. Well, today another diver died in the Andrea Doria.
This time, is was Houston man has [...]
August 2, 2008 | Posted in
Dive Safety |
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We all know that Italians are a bit crazy, but this time… we are pretty much sure.
Specially when we are talking about diving! Today, Italy’s Vittorio Innocente has set a new world record in underwater cycling, pedalling his specially adapted bike to a depth of 65 metres in the sea near Genoa.
The new mark bettered [...]
July 31, 2008 | Posted in
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Jayne Bloom, 38, an IT consultant and experienced diver, is believed to have suffered a fatal attack of the “bends” while exploring Second World War wrecks off the remote islands of Micronesia.
She was diving with her fiancee Jeffrey Keep, a diving instructor, in the Truk Lagoon, a 50 mile stretch of water full of Japanese [...]
July 31, 2008 | Posted in
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A former scuba instructor at the University of Alabama has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of one of her students in class last year.
Allison Rainey Gibson, 44, turned herself into authorities Friday after being indicted by a grand jury last month.
Student Zachary Moore, 21, died from an air embolism in April [...]
July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Taken from News.com.au – Australia:
MIRACLE dive couple Richard Neely and Allyson Dalton told the truth about their 19-hour ordeal at sea, a top-level investigation has found.
Investigators, in a soon-to-be-released report, have backed the version of events by the British scuba instructor, 38, and his American girlfriend, 40.
The experienced divers – with 2000-plus underwater dives each [...]
July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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