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 New Mini Wide Angle Lens for Divers
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:31 PM
A must have lens for divers,the SL973 fits SeaLife ReefMaster Mini (SL320) and ECOshot (SL321) digital cameras. Get closer to the subject and still fit everything into the picture...
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 DAN Lowers Cost on DEMP Student Handbooks
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:31 PM
The Goal: Create Better Prepared Divers
To underscore the value of the Diving Emergency Management Provider program and its ability to give divers a better understanding of how to care for an injured diver, DAN® has reduced the price of the student handbook materials...
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 A Mothers Day Tribute to the Male Seahorse... Nature's Mr. Mom
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:29 PM
“We are using seahorses and their relatives to address one of the most exciting areas of research in modern evolutionary biology: the origin of complex traits,” Jones said. “The brood pouch on male seahorses and pipefish where females deposit eggs during mating is a novel trait that has had a huge impact on the biology of the species because the ability for males to become pregnant has completely changed the mating dynamics.”
Male seahorses are nature’s real-life Mr. Moms – they take fathering to a whole new level: Pregnancy. Although it is common for male fish to play the dominant parenting role, male pregnancy is a complex process unique to the fish family Syngnathidae, which includes pipefish, seahorses and sea dragons...
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 Philippine Danajon Bank Reefs Targeted for FISH Project
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:29 PM
Danajon Bank is a very rare geological formation because it comprises two sets of large coral reefs that formed offshore on a submarine ridge due to a combination of favorable tidal currents and coral growth in the area. It is believed that the reefs were formed over the last 6000 years.
Danajon's double barrier reef is a larger and better-defined structure than other known double barrier reefs in the world. The outer reef lies 11 km offshore, and is composed of several units up to 23 km long each. The inner barrier is 2 km wide and separated from the littoral by an inshore channel 26 m deep at most.
Danajon Bank, the only documented double barrier reef in the Philippines and in the whole of Southeast Asia, and which covers parts of the provinces of Bohol, Southern Leyte and Cebu, is one of the four target implementation areas of FISH project...
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Sea Turtles Almost Gone From Thailand's Andaman Coast
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:28 PM
“The situation is worrying. In the past five decades, the number of sea turtles has dropped five fold. Beaches in Phangna and Phuket used to be places for sea turtles to lay eggs. Now, there are only 20 or so nests per year”, said Kongkiert Kitiwatcharawong, marine biologist.
According to the Marine and Coastal Resources Development and Research Center, statistics showed the number of sea turtles coming to Thailand’s Andaman shores to lay their eggs has dropped dramatically. There were only 10-20 nests per year, decreasing from up to 1,000 nests in the past...
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 Tiny 3-D Cameras Can Go Where Others Cannot Reach
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:28 PM
A new generation of tiny, cordless 3-D cameras can go places where today's tethered cameras cannot reach, according to a team of German scientists. Nowadays, cameras employed for deep-sea research or earthquake rubble rescue work are restricted by cables which tend to snag on debris.
But scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena, Germany, have unveiled revolutionary new dual-lens cameras the size of a cereal box weighing only one kilo (about two pounds) and able to radio 3-D images back to a central base...
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Irish Shipwreck Sale: Own a Piece of World War I Gold
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:26 PM
"The wreck would have been four to five stories when it was originally built, but now it's all sort of collapsed and its flat. It's been salvaged two or three times so it's in a fairly broken up state, but you never know, they're still there, so the chances of finding them... there's always possibilities," explains diver Irvan Irwin.
The SS Laurentic went down in 1917 after it hit a German mine in Lough Swilly in County Donegal, Ireland. The owners of the ship are planning to sell shares in the 20 gold bars which they believe are still submerged in the wreck.
The ship was carrying 43 tons of gold when she sank and most of it has been recovered. It is estimated that the remaining gold bars are worth £10m...
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 Google Diving into 3D Mapping of Oceans
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:26 PM
We’ve got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level–Google Ocean. Google has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts to create a 3D oceanographic map.
The tool–for now called Google Ocean, is expected to be similar to other 3D online mapping applications. People will be able to see the underwater topography, called bathymetry, search for particular spots or attractions, and navigate through the digital environment by zooming and panning...
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New Legislation Paves Way for Increase in Scuba Diving Tourism
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:24 PM
The Diving Equipment and Marketing Association congratulates the Florida Senate and House of Representatives for unanimously passing legislation which establishes a matching grant program titled Ships to Reefs. This bill, sponsored in the Senate by Mike Bennett, and in the House by Doug Holder, would authorize the sinking of decommissioned U.S. Military vessels as artificial reefs to increase marine habitat and tourism opportunities associated with recreational scuba diving and fishing.
With 380 decommissioned Navy ships already acting as marine habitat, Florida leads the nation in the number of vessels functioning as artificial reefs. Each year, thousands of visitors choose Florida to scuba dive on the artificial reef trail, providing an economic boost to the communities of the 272 Florida-based retail dive centers and local diving operators, as well as surrounding hotels and restaurants...
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Researchers Develop Glow-in-the-Dark Fish Powered By Artificial Sugar
Posted by: Cindy on May 05, 2008 AD - 02:23 PM
Using artificial sugar and some clever chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have made glow-in-the-dark fish whose internal light comes from the sugar coating on their cells.
This novel method of fluorescently tagging the sugar chains, or carbohydrates, that coat cells is a new tool for those studying development in the zebrafish, a laboratory organism popular because its transparent embryos allow easy observation of living cells as they develop over time...
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