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Thirty years after the movie thriller ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ hit the silver screen “sQuba” is the first car that can actually ‘fly’ under water.
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Date: Tuesday February 19, 2008
Mysterious creatures from the deep have been discovered in waters off the east Antarctic land mass.
These glassy tunicates were discovered thousands of metres under the sea.
Scientists from around the world cruised waters in three ships and trawled at depths of 2,000 metres.
Voyage Leader Dr Martin Riddle says during 20 days of [...]
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Public release date: 15 February 2008
Boston MA: Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space.
As a result of scientific studies showing that bottom trawling kills vast numbers of corals, sponges, fishes and other [...]
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14 February 2008
Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today congratulated the rock lobster (crayfish) industry in the lower North Island after they announced their intention to voluntarily reduce their catch for the coming season.
The CRA4 Rock Lobster Industry has agreed not to fish around 60 percent of their annual catch entitlement for the new fishing season starting [...]
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Thursday, 14 February 2008, 2:59 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government
Minister Jim Anderton and Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick have today announced the next step in protecting New Zealand’s marine environment.
The country has been divided into 14 coastal regions to create a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that reflect the diversity of New Zealand’s marine environment. [...]
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This Sunday, 24th February, Sea and Ski Greenlane are holding a Spearfishing Open Day from midday onwards.
You have the opportunity to try out various freediving suits, fins and spearguns in the pool and staff from Beuchat will be there to advise you on what best meets your needs. All Beuchat gear will be at a [...]
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Diving in Canada is said to be on par with the best temperate-ocean diving in the world, so naturally while the bourgeois pose on the winter ski slopes the less narcissistic slip beneath the waves…
The green and the white: the Mars of the future!
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8 February, 2008
In December last year, a New Zealand commercial fishing vessel accidentally caught a large amount of deepwater coral while bottom trawling for orange roughy over seamounts near the Chatham Islands.
Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today that it was disappointing that this much coral was taken. “This was an unfortunate event, as no fisher [...]
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Winners of the Ministry of Fisheries Photography Competition have been announced.
A member of AUUC, Ali Perkins, has had her image Diver admires tube sponge selected for display in an exhibition at The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington. The competition’s winning entries, together with a selection of highly commended entries will be on [...]
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So you’ve seen the deadliest catch on Discovery channel, right? Those Alaskan King Crabs look pretty big and tasty, so being in Canada I thought I should try some…
The red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) - a large decapod, reaching a carapace width of 11 in (28 cm) and a leg span of 6 ft (1.8 [...]
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