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 Tobago's Carnival Under the Sea
Posted by: Cindy on Feb 01, 2010 AD - 03:06 AM
Caribbean island set to host the first ever dive festival, June 11-18, 2010.
Tobago, sister island to the home of the world famous cultural explosion, Carnival, and a classic example of old-world Caribbean charm, will be taking the party beneath the sea this year with its first dive festival. Themed Underwater Carnival, the event is designed to showcase the destination’s rich and diverse eco-system and the explosion of marine life that can be found off the island’s shores. Hosted by the Tobago House of Assembly Tourism Division (THA), the Association of Tobago Dive Operators and with the support of the Tourism Development Company (TDC), the week-long event is scheduled to take place from June 11-18, 2010...
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Eudi Show 2010
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 23, 2010 AD - 12:03 PM
The XVI edition of Eudishow, the European Dive Show concerning the underwater activities will take place in the New Rome Fair from 29th February to 3rd March 2008, in the wider context of Blue Big, an exhibition entirely dedicated to the sea, in conjunction with Boat Show and Gommoshow (pneumatic boats). Three of 12 Blue Big Exhibition pavilions are dedicated entirely to the underwater activities of Eudishow...
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Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 23, 2010 AD - 12:03 PM
The 2010 Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival Show is scheduled for Saturday February 27, 2010, and will be held at Washtenaw Community College's Morris Lawrence Building at 4800 East Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105...
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 Robert’s Grove Belize Dives Into 2010 with 5 Stars From PADI International
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 23, 2010 AD - 12:02 PM
Placencia, Belize, January 20, 2010 --(PR.com)-- PADI International has just awarded The Inn at Robert’s Grove Dive Center with 5 Stars, a distinction given to progressive PADI Dive Centers that PADI says, “Excel in providing dive consumers with a full range of diver education programs, equipment selection and experience opportunities that actively promote aquatic environmental awareness.” Furthermore, PADI explains, “A PADI 5-Star Dive Center is active in its community presenting a professional image, better than the norm of the marketplace.”
In addition to its regular daily 2-tank dive trips and certification courses, Robert’s Grove Dive Center, also offers the only Nitrox (enriched air) dive program available in southern Belize...
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Adventures Under the Sea at the Cazenovia Public Library
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 23, 2010 AD - 12:02 PM
(Cazenovia, NY) As part of Cazenovia’s annual Winter Festival, the Cazenovia Public Library is hosting photographer Dr. Christopher Dascher, who has traveled the planet to capture images of the undersea environment. Children and adults alike are invited to escape the winter by going on an underwater adventure with him on Saturday, February 6th at 10:15 a.m. in the Library Community Room...
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New World Record Set by Brit Diver
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 23, 2010 AD - 12:02 PM
Thirty-two-year-old Will Goodman, from Borehamwood, U.K., has just set a new world record by spending forty-eight hours, nine minutes and seventeen seconds on the seabed off the coast of Indonesian island Lombok, last week...
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 The Year of the Rebreather
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 23, 2010 AD - 12:02 PM
Poseidon Discovery — now available för 10,000 diving instructors all over the world.
TDI™ (Technical Diving International™), the largest technical certification agency in the world, is now offering training in the sports diver Rebreather, also known as Poseidon Discovery. TDI is seen as an innovator always bringing new, exciting and functional diving techniques and programs to the general diving public...
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 Poseidon Invests in US
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 23, 2010 AD - 12:01 PM
Starts new company in the U.S. to boost growth
Since Poseidon Diving Systems launched Poseidon Discovery, the world's first rebreather for recreational divers, demand has risen steeply all over the world. To meet the U.S. demand and to support the American market, Poseidon now has registered Poseidon Diving Systems Inc., with a centralized warehouse in The Woodlands, TX and a Corporate office in Los Angeles, CA...
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Palau Dives Into 2010
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 06, 2010 AD - 07:45 PM
Palau, Micronesia is making a splash in 2010. The string of over 586 islands in the western corner of Micronesia is using its most abundant feature, water, to shape activities for the coming year. Here is a roundup of what visitors can expect...
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New Hope for Missing Scuba Divers with New Surface Detection Device
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 06, 2010 AD - 07:44 PM
A revolutionary new product for scuba divers could put an end to worrying trend of divers being lost at sea. The H.E.L.P. (Handheld Emergency Location Pinpointer) is a simple yet effective piece of equipment that enables divers to signal their location to boats and other potential rescuers.
When divers are separated from their boat by currents, engine failure or other circumstances surface currents can quickly cause them to drift out of sight. In the early 1990s a group dubbed the “Palau Six’ by the press went missing in the early 1990’s whilst exploring Peleliu in Micronesia. Despite surfacing from their dive in the vicinity of their dive boat they could not be picked up immediately to engine trouble. It was an hour before the boat was operational by which time the group of five Japanese divers and a dive guide had drifted out of sight. The divers had no effective emergency signaling device and though the boat captain searched for the lost divers for three hours his efforts proved fruitless. A massive search and rescue operation was put in place but it was not until three days later that the bodies of three of the unfortunate divers were located. The others were never found!...
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