Cape Town er en kosmopolitisk, levende og moderne by. Kendt for sine smukke vartegn ved Taffelbjerget og Cape Peninsula, er Cape Town en populær destination for dykkere, der kommer for at udforske hendes farverige tangskove, historiske vrag og glitrende rev.
The discoveries in the Baltic Sea are unprecedented and have revealed shipwrecks hundreds of years old. Two of them are with great certainty cargo vessels from the Netherlands, while the third and largest is supposed to be a Scandinavian vessel.
All three shipwrecks stand like ghost ships almost unscathed in total darkness on the seabed at a depth of approximately 150 meters and beyond the reach of modern fishing vessels.
In order to obtain the best footage, two Swedish photogrammetry experts Ingemar Lundgren and Fredrik Skorg from the company Ocean Discovery took part in the expedition. An underwater robot equipped with an advanced camera brought thousands of images to the surface and reproduces with great precision a virtual image of the wrecks as they actually appear.
The pictures are so detailed that you get the feeling of being able to walk around a ship that sank hundreds of years ago.
The newly-found wreck lies off the coast near Villanova di Ostuni, some 19 miles from Monopoli.
First believed to be found by Italian divers in 1999, it was later determined in 2020 that the wreck thought to be Regent was in fact the Italian submarine Giovanni Bausan which had been sunk by the RAF in 1944.
Now, it seems another dive team has had better luck in identifying Regent. She rests off the coast near Villanova di Ostuni, some 19 miles from Monopoli, upside down in 70m of water. The apparent victim of a mine.
Äpplet som var bestykket med 64 kanoner da blev søsat i 1629 blev bygget af samme skibsbygger som det berømte 69 meter lange Vasa som nu er udstillet på Vasamuseet i Stockholm, hvor det nu udgør en af Sveriges mest populære turistattraktioner.
The V-1302 John Mahn was a fishing trawler requisitioned by the German navy during the Second World War and sunk by UK bombers in 1942. It has rested at 30 metres below sea level in the Belgian North Sea ever since.
Together with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, bio-engineer Josefien Van Landuyt examined samples of sediment in the area around the sunken John Mahn. In doing so, she aimed to discover whether old shipwrecks in the Belgian section of the North Sea continue to affect microbial marine life.
V-1302 John Mahn var en fisketrawler, der blev rekvireret af den tyske flåde under Anden Verdenskrig og sænket af britiske bombefly i 1942. Lige siden har vraget ligget hen på 30 meters dybde i den belgiske del af Nordsøen.
Sammen med Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences har bioingeniør Josefien Van Landuyt udtaget prøver af sedimentet i området omkring vraget af John Mahn med det formål at belyse hvorvidt og hvorledes gamle skibsvrag i den belgiske del af Nordsøen påvirker mikrobielt havliv.
That feeding or attracting wildlife with food to enable better viewing opportunities by ecotourists (i.e. provisioning tourism) has the potential to alter the natural behaviour and physiology of animals has long been well established.
But how the physiological state of wildlife might be related to the nature and magnitude of these effects remains poorly understood.
Today, our oceans are suffering more and more damage at the hands of large corporations that seem to have no regard for the severe harm that they’re causing. This attitude of making business-related ambition the top priority—even at the expense of the environment—is one of the main threats to the ocean, its inhabitants, and the humans who live in close contact with it.
The186-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has voted for the first time to regulate the trade that kills millions of sharks every year.
DEMA is only just over but Master Liveaboards is not pausing for breath. After a successful week in Orlando catching up with friends, old and new, it’s time for Black Friday.
There are some amazing deals on the way, starting on the 25th November. Everything is under wraps for now, but guests will be able to save up to 50% on new bookings on upcoming departures across the fleet!
