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    Diving Car
    Rinspeed presented its new sQuba, the worlds first diving car, at the Geneva Motor Show. The car is not only able to drive on roads autonomously with a push of a button (thus without a driver, passenger or further assistance), but can also transform into an amphibious vehicle which can be submerged in water up to 10 meters (33 feet).
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    Be a Diver
    Part of DEMA's new Be a Diver national advertising campaign, this is just one of the tools to be used by DEMA and its members to grow the industry.
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    Temple of Doom - Mexican cenote
    Cenote Esqueleto also known as Temple of Doom is located off of Coba Road outside of Tulum. (Yucatán, Mexico). There is approximately a 300 yard trek through the jungle from the road. The cavern area is about 20 feet below ground level so the easiest entry to the cenote is to jump. There is a ladder for exiting.

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  • Published in X-Ray Issue:   15 - Feb 2007
    Caribbean
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    The Yucatan Peninsula is located in the south of the contiguous Mexican states. The ground here is heated by the tropical sun—35°C makes for a hot and impassable jungle. The bogs—littered with iguanas, snakes and crocodiles—are drying up. A rare trop-ical storm suddenly and unexpectedly flies up from the Caribbean Sea. Black clouds, peals of thunder, bright lighting, squalls of wind and rain last no more than 15–20 minutes and again the damp stuffy mind-melting weight of the stifling heat returns. It is not the best place to dwell for the white man. But this land saw an era over 1000 years ago, when it was occupied by a surprisingly small-in-stature, dark-skinned people—the Maya.
    Download pdf: Riviera Maya
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  • Published in X-Ray Issue:   07 - Oct 2005
    AustralAsia
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    Tasmania’s Southwest National Park and World Heritage Area is the land that time forgot, and most of the civilized world has never heard of Bathurst Harbour. It is the home of the world’s oldest living plant, Kings Holly (Lomatatia tasmanica) discovered in 1934 by the late Deny King, an environmentalist and local legend who lived in the area most of his adult life earning his living mining tin. On the banks of the Old River, bushwalkers able to penetrate the closely guarded secret location can admire a 10,500-year-old Huon Pine Tree. From the bird hide near the Melaleuca airstrip, you can watch the mating dance of a pair of orange bellied parrots, a species which breeds only in this region and has been saved from extinction by volunteers and the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service. Apart from the rare flora and fauna, the landscape is as rugged and spectacular as any wilderness on earth.
    Download pdf: Black Water Diving
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  • New Bonehead T-Shirts by Ralph Hagen
    The funniest cartoonist in diving -- get Ralph Hagen's new Bonehead Shark cartoons on high quality t-shirts, apparel, caps, mugs, teddy bears, tote bags and more. A percent of all sales goes to ocean conservation, so you can do a good deed and give yourself and your buddy a chuckle at the same time!
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    New Bonehead T-Shirts from Ralph Hagen for folks in the UK & EU
    Live in the UK/EU? No problem. You can still get the new Bonehead Shark cartoons by Canadian diver and syndicated cartoonist, Ralph Hagen, through our store on ShirtCity.com with quick and easy EU shipping rates.

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  • DIRrebreather: Nitrox Rebreather Diving
    Cedric Verdier
    This book is dedicated to Nitrox rebreather diving and the basic principles and skills that every rebreather diver should know and master. It covers some topics like balance and trim with a rebreather, risk management, and proper Nitrox dive planning.


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  • Volcanic eruptions wiped out ocean life
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    Undersea volcanic activity triggered a mass extinction of marine life and buried a thick mat of organic matter on the sea floor about 93 million years ago, which became a major source of oil, according to a new study at University of Alberta in Canada.
  • Volcanic eruptions wiped out ocean life
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    Undersea volcanic activity triggered a mass extinction of marine life and buried a thick mat of organic matter on the sea floor about 93 million years ago, which became a major source of oil, according to a new study at University of Alberta in Canada.

  • Ozeaneum - Window on the oceans and seas
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    Officially opened by Chancellor Angela Merkel last week, the Ozeaneum, Germany is Europe’s biggest window on the marine environment in the Baltic and North seas and the North Atlantic Ocean.

  • New Zealand widens fishing ban to save dolphins
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    The critically-endangered Maui’s dolphins, living only along the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island, gets better protection from 1 October 2008, as set net and trawl fishing will be banned in more of the areas where Maui’s dolphins and Hector’s dolphins range.

  • Satellite tagging research to help turtle population survive
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    The population of leatherback turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean has plummeted by over 90 percent in the last 20 years. Researchers hope by satelitte tagging this ocean faring creatures, will give some insight which can help the species survive.

  • US researchers looking underwater in the Gulf of Mexico in search of first Americans
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    A 12-person research team explore an area near the Florida Middle Grounds 100 to 200 miles off Florida's west coast at depths of 40 to 110 meters. They will study ancient submerged coastlines in the northeastern Gulf to determine where early Americans, known as the Clovis culture, might have lived more than 12,000 years ago when the underwater terrain was dry land.

  • Aqualung issues limited recall of Apeks TX, ATX and XTX 2nd Stages
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    (Via press realease from Aqualung) - This is limited to those 2nd stages/octopus that have not undergone an authorized annual service.

  • Yemen's Socotra Archipelago new World Heritage
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    The Socotra Archipelago has been dubbed the Galápagos of the Indian Ocean. Here you find a diverse marine life. At the moment there is only one dive operator at the island, so this is still considered virgin diving.

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    Dominica Dive Fest 2008
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    Dive Fest is an annual event, now in its 14th year, organized by the Dominica Watersports Association (DWA) to focus attention the sport of diving, to educate the public about scuba diving as a tourism product and possible career path, and to raise awareness about Dominica.
    11 Jul 2008 - 10:00 - 20 Jul 2008 - 18:47  | Dominica, Caribbean  | Dominica Dive Fest

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