Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Ali Perkins
DAN (Divers Alert Network) Project Dive Exploration
Project Dive Exploration (PDE) is the most extensive study of recreational diving ever conducted. With affiliate programs in Europe and Southeast Asia, DAN’s goal is to record more than one million dive profiles to produce statistically accurate analyses of dive profiles, diver characteristics, and diver behavior.
Project Dive Exploration is [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Ali Perkins
Last August, as a team at the North Pole prepared to plunge more than two miles to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, some of the dozens of specialists who staged the dive engaged in a time-honored ritual: drawing on foam cups, decorating more than 100 of them.
SEA SHRINKS FOAM Cups and their messages back [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
Story Highlights
- In the past 20 years percentage of fish stocks facing collapse has doubled
- Global fishing industry employs 200 million people, generating $80 billion a year
- Irresponsible fishing methods like bottom trawling responsible for species extinction
HONG KONG, China (CNN) — It is commonly said that we know more about the Moon than the deep [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
New Zealand has received the worst possible ranking, last amongst 130 countries, for its protection of threatened species, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report (T&TCR).
Care for the Wild International chief executive, Dr Barbara Maas, who is currently in New Zealand, says, “The T&TCR provides a timely wake-up call for [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
Fishery officers intercepted hundreds of illegal paua and dozens of undersize rock lobster returning from the East Coast at a checkpoint northeast of Opotiki on Easter weekend.
Fishery officers and members of the Police Commercial Vehicle Investigation Unit (CVIU) undertook a series of check points and vehicle stops during Easter weekend.
Ministry of Fisheries East Coast compliance [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
A new dive shop has launched in Onehunga in the last couple of weeks.
You’re invited to their opening.
Date: 28th March 2008
Time: 4pm onwards (to 6:00 or 7:00pm)
Location: 116 Onehunga Mall
Opening discounts, spot prizes and a few beverages.
Dive Shack
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
Consumers are loving the southern bluefin tuna to death, writes Andrew Darby.
WITH southern bluefin tuna, it seems it’s all about muscle.
This fish is an anatomical extreme of muscular exertion. Powered by a large heart and warm blood, it’s a rare combination: a burst-of-speed predator and a long-distance cruiser.
The same flesh sends sashimi chefs into culinary [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
A boater who was killed when a stingray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal’s poisonous barb, a medical examiner said today.
Judy Kay Zagorski, 57, of Pigeon, Michigan, was in the front of a boat travelling at 40 [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
A woman who died after a stingray leapt onto her boat in the Florida Keys was probably killed by the sheer force of the creature’s weight rather than its poisonous barb, initial reports indicate.
Judy Kay Zagorski was sunbathing on a boat when the 34kg spotted eagle ray “jumped” from the water and struck her in [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
It is the moment a scientist patted a ferocious Great White Shark that burst out of the water alongside his boat off the coast of Australia.
The shark had been lured to the boat with chunks of bait as part of tests on a “Shark Shield” - an electronic device designed to ward sharks away from [...]
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