Archive for December, 2007
Recent diving incidents in New Zealand have caused a great deal of concern. Water Safety New Zealand is now urging people to take more care while diving during this holiday season.Deeperblue has reported of the recent deaths in the Bay of Plenty. A man …

December 30th, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
The Durban Harbour has been filled with hundreds of dead fish floating to the surface, alongside the smell of hydrogen sulphide in the air. The Kwazulu-Natal Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said that it may be due to "organic waste", ho…

December 29th, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
Jonah Fisher from the BBC will be will be tracking in the infamous Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean, from a post on the Greenpeace ship. The BBC has set up a travel diary from where you can read his reports over the next two months.The cu…

December 29th, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
NewstalkZB Another incident in New Zealand reports of a man has died in a diving incident at Cape Runaway, the eastern side of the Bay of Plenty.Te Kaha police say the 49-year-old, from Opotiki, had been diving with family at a spot below the Cape Runaw…

December 29th, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
From www.stuff.co.nz: Search and rescue teams are looking for a woman who went missing while on a diving trip near Tauranga. The woman was out with a group of divers near Motiti Island, about 30km east of Mt Maunganui, when she failed to surface abou…

December 28th, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
International AIDA Judge and Freediver Instructor Trainer Karol Meyer of Brazil ( voted Best Female Freediver by ICARE TROPHIE 2007) initiated a Freediving Workshop for the underprivileged young people of the south of the Florianopolis Island (Pantano…

December 28th, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
Middle East Ocean and Science Technology Expo is meeting for the First Time in the Middle EastMEOST 2008 is the first industry led marine exhibition in the vibrant Middle East market to showcase new technology, products, services and solutions from the se…

December 28th, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
William Trubridge, who set a World Record on April 11, 2007 in Unassisted Freedivingby descending to a depth of 82m on one breath of air, without fins, weights or any other form of assistance, has launched his own website. In this purest form of freedivin…

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December 25th, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
The Science Daily has released an interesting article on why diving marine mammals resist brain damage.Freedivers know that humans can only stay underwater for a few minutes until those required gulps of air are needed. Human brains need a constant suppl…

December 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Mantello Brothers Join Forces To Protect Cetaceans with New IMAX (R) 3D Theatre Documentary Film DOLPHINS AND WHALES 3D: Tribes of the OceanSanta Barbara (CA) and London (UK), December 18, 2007 /PRNEWSWIRE/ – Filmmakers and en…

December 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
The Serbian Open Freediving Championships 2008 are to be held in Belgrade, Serbia, at the "Tasmajdan" swimming pool, which is 50 metres in length and has a water temperature of 26 degrees C. The announced date is 16th of February 2008 and will…

December 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
ABU DHABI – A team of field scientists from the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD) this month came across two dugongs trapped in an abandoned drift Gillnet (Al Hayali), close to Abu Al Abyad Island. Dugong are extremely vulnerable in these…

December 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
An international outcry led by Australia has forced Japan to backtrack on plans to kill 50 humpback whales as part of an annual ‘scientific’ whaling programme.However, the controversial Japanese fleet, which is hunting for whales in sub-Antarctic seas, wi…

December 21st, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off
The Telegraph Journal of Canada reports how officials told of a lobster fisherman playing an important part saving an entangled humpback whale off Grand Manan.The whale measured 12-metres and it was finally freed on Wednesday morning after spending the ni…

December 20th, 2007 | Posted in Scuba Diving | Comments Off