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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Coral Reef Discovered
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Image Text by: Sylvie Yaffe

Photos by: Songpol Tippaywong 

Marine scientists are surveying the extent of an uncharted reef off Tai Muang, Phang Nga, which they believe covers an area of at least four square kilometres – far larger than any previously known reef in the region. However the discovery of the new reef also brings challenges - to protect and manage the latest pearl in the Andaman Sea.

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Yap’s Major Milestone
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Yap is considered the most traditional island in Micronesia

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The Allure of East Kalimantan
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Nestled within the clear waters of Maratua Atoll lies Nabucco Island.

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Puri Jati: The Critter Cradle
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Bali’s latest muck diving site is an eye-opening treat! “Looks like we will be landing on Thursday and will have three or four days to do a spot of diving,”

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Puerto Galera
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Diving in Puerto Galera with any frequency is enough to spoil the most jaded of divers. No matter how many times you visit, there is always something new to see. Early in 2001. I made my first visit here while based in Manila on an extended business trip. After a hiatus of several years, I decided to get back into diving again. Easy to reach from Manila, Puerto Galera turned into my weekend dive destination.
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Kool Krabi Gives You Six of the Best
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By: Ian Shaw of Reefwatch Krabi

Krabi lies in the heart of Phangna bay some 190km (119 miles) from Phuket Island.

The limestone rocks that feature in so many picture postcards make for a striking landscape both above and below the waves. If Krabi was in the United kingdom the people would all talk with broad Yorkshire accents and have the faces of craggy moorland people, flat caps and whippets. Thankfully Krabi is in Thailand and so the people wage war with bulls and chicken fights and a huge betting scene that goes hand in hand with their favourite pastimes. There is a mixed population of Buddhist and Muslim religions with a small Anglican percentage thrown into the mix, somewhere in all of this a few Europeans are operating dive businesses and other tourism-driven operations.

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Tutukaka: Poor Knights
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Text and photography by: Ginny Stubbs and Craig Ballard.
Vol 4 No. 1

The best subtropical diving in the world” (Jacques Cousteau). That’s a big reputation to live up to! We are here to test it out. Will the Poor Knights live up to the claims made about it?You betcha it will. Imagine diving in open water in a ball of 5,000 schooling trevally, on top of several hundred kingfish? Or diving with over 20 schooling rays? Or in a tunnel filled with iridescent blue fish, so thick that you can’t see past them? Seeing birds under water, or swimming through a tunnel into a lagoon walled by sheer cliffs? These are only some of the delights we experienced at the Poor Knights.

 

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S.S. Suddhadib Fixed Mooring Project
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Text by: Brock Wright
Vol 4 No 1.

It was a great day of diving on one of Pattaya’s well known but rarely dived wrecks the Bremen when the idea of preserving the Suddhadib was born. Until recently the Suddhadib was known as the Hardeep. The name Hardeep is believed to have originated from the mispronunciation of her name by the foreign divers that dove on her during the Vietnam conflict. There are several stories concerning the World War II sinking of the Suddhadib that range from the French dropping bombs on it, to the Thai resistance fighters blowing it up.

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Mystery Marus
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Vol 4 No 1

Mystery Marus

Dozens of Japanese Maru, or large commercial transport vessels, were sunk in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea during the latter stages of WWII. Most were sunk as a result of American submarine action and Allied Forces aerial bombing runs from India. Many of these wrecks are huge and would need several dives just to get a feel for any one of them.

The MV Trident has surveyed the locations of many undersea anomalies in the Gulf of Siam, and has positively identified the following large wrecks within a days steaming of Koh Tao.

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Discover Exotic Gangga Island
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Text and photos by: Adi & Mala Gehri
Vol 4 No 1

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As we caught our first glimpse of Gangga Island, one word came into mind – exotic. The contrast of colours, ranging from the colourful flags adorning the jetty, to the blue ocean, pure white sands and lush tropical vegetation, swamped our senses.


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