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Close Call for Renowned Underwater Photographer Fred Buyle
Michele Monico reports:
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Tanya Streeter to teach from Turks and Caicos
From January 22-29, during the peak whale-migration season
in the Caribbean in 2009, ten times world record holder freediver Tanya
Streeter, will be resident at the
Amanyara resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands and sharing her knowledge wit...
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Scuba diving found to threaten coral reef systems
In an abstract from a paper produced by the Department of Marine Biology in the University of Vienna, studies on the impact of scuba divers in the northern parts of the Red Sea demonstrate how scuba diving threatens coral reef systems.
The paper says tha...
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Missing British Diver feared dead
An experienced scuba diver feared dead after
vanishing while exploring a sunken wreck near Malta have said they will do
everything they can to bring him home. Family and friends of Paul Swain,
49, had to make the heartbreaking decision to...
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Seven Mile Diver dies at 86
Swiss oceanographer and engineer Jacques Piccard,
known for having developed underwater vehicles for studying ocean currents died
on Saturday 1st November, aged 86.
He is one of only two people,
along with Lt. Don Walsh of US Navy, to have explored...
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Canadian Smashes National Freediving Dynamic Record
Jana
Strain, a Canadian Freediver and resident of Santa Monica,
CA, set a new Canadian and North American
Women’s Freediving Record with a swim of 171 meters (560 feet) in two minutes
and eighteen seconds at Pepperdine
University. Jana
bro...
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UAE Freediver goes for National Records
The 4th Dutch Open Freediving Pool competition has its first Emirian competitor this year, whose dream to freedive was realised just one year and half ago.
Hailing from Abu Dhabi, local businessman Adel Ali Abu Haleeqa, has been dreaming of holding his b...
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Scientists believe that fish show signs of imminent tsunami
Asia News:
Fish could be providing a new tsunami warning, according to Sri Lankan
scientist Ariyaratne. Apparently some species have abandoned the Sumatra
seabed, moving toward the coast of Sri Lanka, which could indicate a submarine
eart...
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Oslo Ice Challenge - Freediving Comp under Ice
The world's
first freediving competition under ice, will be held in Oslo, March 7th - 8th 2009. The website says "Diving under the ice is a fantastic experience that we would
like to share with as many as possible. The safety will be just as good as ...
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Virgin Birth in a shark tank
National Geographic:
For the second time in history, new
DNA evidence shows that a female blacktip shark in Virginia fertilized her own
egg without mating with a male shark. This is the second time scientists have
used DNA testing to verify shark ...
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New Croatian Freediving Record
Goran Colak is not escaping any Great White sharks in Croatian waters, but is certainly speeding up his distances with his new National Record. Goran attempted a record in the Dynamic With Fins discipline in the town of Sisak, near Zagreb. He says t...
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Great White Shark encounter in Croatia
Austrian Times:
A spearfisherman survived a bite by a massive 20ft Great White Shark as he swam off the
Croatian coast with pals.The 500lb monster took a piece out of
43-year-old Damjan Pecek's leg as he swam underwater near the remote Adriatic
isl...
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Freaky Fish Contest for Halloween
Oceana has
just launched their 3rd-annual Freaky
Fish contest in honor of Halloween, in which supporters can vote for their of
13 ghoulish sea creatures. The 13 freaky contestants will be highlighted on the
Oceana blog throughout October, and readers...
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Scuba diver dies off La Jolla
Dive training
standards may be questioned after two divers were diving in at least 150 feet
(40 metres) of water in La Jolla, San Diego,
when one diver ran out of air and
attempted to share air with his buddy, to make it to the surface. John ...
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Wetpixel and DivePhotoGuide relaunch UnderwaterCompetition.com
Wetpixel
& DivePhotoGuide are proud to announce the relaunch of their joint venture with UnderwaterCompetition.com.
This will be a series of international photo competitions, hosted between their
popular underwater photo & video websites.
The...
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Atlantis will not release captured whale shark
A national polemic arises
as the executives of the Palm Atlantis (Dubai),
have announced that they will not release the whale shark that they captured
from the waters of the UAE almost a month ago.
Atlantis announced the
capture of the juvenile whale...
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2 New World Records for the Russians
The Molchanov family score a double whammy this week in the Europe Evolution Cup, being held in Lignano Saabbiadoro, Italy.
Natalia Molchanova scored a 214 metre Dynamic with Fins swim and her son, Alexei Molchanov swam 250 metres DYN beating Dave Mulli...
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Dolphin gives birth in captivity in Dubai
The first offspring from the Atlantis family of dolphins has
been born at Dolphin Bay, the new dolphin encounter and education
centre at the Dubai resort.
The calf, as yet unnamed, was born to a dolphin called Butters in a
special maternity pool withi...
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113 new shark and ray species announced in Australia
While 1000s of sharks are being massacred world-wide, DNA
evidence has helped identify 113 new species of sharks and rays—including a skinny saw
shark, a swell shark, and a river shark— scientists
announced Thursday. Nearly ha...
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Bleak future for sharks in the UAE
Photograph: Barbara Lang-Lenton
Following
the screening of "Shark
water" in Dubai, hosted by the Emirates Diving Association (EDA), Mr.
Ibrahim Al-Zubi, Environmental Advisor for the EDA, was invited last Friday to talk about sharks LIVE...
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