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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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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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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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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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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