August 10 2008 UK Bogus bends nets Divers £250,000  A pair of divers swindled £250,000 (US$500,000) from the National Health Service for treating bogus cases of the bends.  David Welsh, 49, and diving instructor Michael Brass, 43, are facing prison sentences after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the NHS and perverting the course of justice. Welsh ran the Fort Bovisand diving centre, which had its own recompression chamber.  They paid strangers they met in pubs up to £200 to pose as divers who needed recompression treatment, they only needed only the real names, addresses, dates of birth and national insurance numbers of the supposed victims to work the fraud. Most had never been underwater and some could barely swim.  Welsh billed National Health Trusts from all over the UK £6,500 a time for treating the 37 fake victims.  The fraud was discovered when police investigated two cases of divers from Liverpool who were supposedly treated for the bends at the recompression chamber.    Full story...

August 25 2008 HawaiiArchaeologists have located British whaler sunk by bad weather in 1837 off Kure Atoll Artefacts from the remains of a wreck believed to be of the British whaling vessel Gledstanes lost for 171 years have been found off Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The artefacts include four large anchors, cannons and cannonballs. The Gledstanes is the fourth whaling vessel found in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, evidence of the area's significance as a 19th-century whaling area.  The divers who found the shipwreck were taking part in the 2008 Maritime Heritage Expedition, sponsored by NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries.  Full story...

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Scapa Flow Dive Guide
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ImageThere are many European divers who consider Scapa Flow to have unquestionably the best wreck diving in Europe and for many it is very high on their ‘best wreck diving in the world’ list.
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Discover Underwater Hockey
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Image Those who have even a passing interest in ice hockey but live in those parts of the world where ice, let alone ice rinks, are sparse should take a look into underwater hockey.
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Italy Roman sinkhole explored
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ImageThe Merro Sink-Hole (Pozzo del Merro), which is situated in the vicinity of Rome, is the deepest flooded karstic cavity known in the world.
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Con Dao Islands
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ImageThe remote Con Dao group of islands is about 180km from Vung Tau, and has a local population of around 5,000.
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Volunteering in Bali…
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ImageYes, I did volunteer. On hearing that that Komodo National Park needed some more moorings, I actually volunteered not only to acquire all the materials and install the moorings.
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Bali Round-up
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Image Mola-Mola Season has pretty much been and gone although (as always) there are still sightings around the Padangbai/Candidasa area - even a few in Tulamben.
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Eco News
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UK

Record waves
British scientists from Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre who intentionally sailed into an intense storm in the North Atlantic 155 miles west of Scotland, found waves so high that they were not thought to exist. Giant waves as high as 30m (98ft) struck the Research Ship Discovery for nearly 12 hours.
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OZTeK’07 17-18 March Sydney 2007

Beyond Open Water
Putting the thrill and adventure back into diving, the OZTeK’07 Dive Exhibition & Conference is rapidly gathering momentum to again deliver one of the world’s most exciting and dynamic diving spectaculars.

 

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The Tech Section

Technical Editor Steve Burton is the director of technical diving & engineering services at Mermaids Dive Center in Pattaya, Thailand. He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Rock and Roll Show
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Image Ok, we admit it. We’re wimps. No denial, when it comes down to it we really don’t like cold water diving.

It’s not that there isn’t some fascinating stuff down there but we have tried it and, well, we just don’t enjoy it. We do most of our diving in the tropics: 

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