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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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