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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Australasia Project AWARE is International Cleanup Day 2008 a Huge Success
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ImageProject AWARE sends a “BIG Thank You!” to everyone who participated in International Cleanup day 20 September 2008. A fantastic effort was put in by all volunteers, cleanup coordinators and dive centres. The feel good factor of cleaning up our oceans while having fun with likeminded others can’t be beat.
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Thailand Project AWARE International Clean Up Day 2008 - Pattaya
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ImageOn Saturday, September 20, 2008, Mermaids Dive Center, a PADI 5-Star Career Development Center in Pattaya, Thailand organized the annual Project AWARE International cleanup day of the beach and coral reef on Koh Sak Island, just off the coast of Pattaya.
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Hawaii Archaeologists have located British whaler sunk by bad weather in 1837 off Kure Atoll
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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.
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DNA tests reveal that the Pacific and Atlantic goliath groupers are two distinct species
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Researchers from the University of Hawaii, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, National Marine Fisheries Service and Projecto Meros do Brazil have found that the goliath groupers in the Atlantic are not the same groupers that swim in Pacific waters, even though they look identical.
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Asia Pacific Premium Sponsors for Project AWARE International Cleanup Day 20 September 2008
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Project AWARE is pleased to announce that Scubapro Uwatec and Aquaventure Whitetip Dive Supply (AWDS) are this year’s proud sponsors for International Cleanup Day, 20 September 2008.
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UK Bogus bends nets Divers GBP250000
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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.

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Australia Richard Neely and Allyson Dalton cleared
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An enquiry is likely to find that the British scuba instructor Richard Neely and his American girlfriend Allyson Dalton told the truth about their 19-hour ordeal at sea.
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New species of manta ray discovered
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After five years of study a marine biologist has confirmed that a larger and migratory manta ray is in fact a distinct species. Until now it was thought that there was only one manta ray species.  

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Voracious predator decimating local fish

A voracious predator, lionfish in the Tropical Western Atlantic Ocean, (Caribbean) are decimating local fish populations,  

A study has found that within a short period after the introduction of Indo-pacific lionfish into an area, the survival of other reef fishes is lowered by about 80 percent.

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USA USS Hoyt Vandenberg artificial reef plan may be scuttled
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Efforts to scuttle the 520-foot USS Hoyt Vandenberg off Key West as an artificial reef may have to be abandoned due to the credit crunch.

The cost to sink the USS Hoyt Vandenberg on the seabed is now US$8.45 million - 3.9 times higher than the US$2.1 million estimated when the project was proposed in 2001.

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