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...

November 26 2008 AustraliaDivers support breast cancer dayWhen one of the members of Pro Dive Nelson Bay’s Narki Gnome Dive Club was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, the group wanted to support her and raise awareness for the Breast Cancer Network of Australia (BCNA).   Diving was what brought them together, so they held an event with their own underwater twist. For the past eight years Mini-Fields of Women have been held in communities across Australia during October as part of Australia's breast cancer month, an initiative from The Breast Cancer Network of Australia (BCNA). The Mini-Fields of Women campaign places hundreds of hot pink lady silhouettes in prominent positions throughout Australia to represent women affected by breast cancer.  Full story...

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...

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World Make your Actions Count for International Year of the Reef
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The fantastic response to Project AWARE’s International Year of the Reef (IYOR) 2008 shows coral conservation is a top priority for divers worldwide. Thousands of divers and water enthusiasts have already signed Project AWARE’s IYOR Pledge and taken actions to protect our living reefs.
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Indonesia Missing Komodo divers found
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Five divers, who were swept away during a dive off Komodo, Indonesia have been found after managing to reach a remote beach on an island 25 miles away. 

Worried that their rescue might take days, the group began scavenging for shellfish to survive and were forced to throw stones to drive off a komodo dragon - one of the large, aggressive lizards native to the area that are capable of killing human beings.

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British Virgin Islands
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Ship to be sunk in British Virgin Islands’ waters         

A 1930s vessel that sailed the Sir Francis Channel for more than ten years will be sunk as a artificial reef in Virgin Islands’ waters. The announcement by the BVI Scuba Association (BVISA) confirms Premier Ralph O’Neal’s permission to obtain the Windjammer S/V Flying Cloud and sink it for the enjoyment of Virgin Islands’ divers.

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Bermuda
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31 people licensed to cull lionfish 

Lionfish have decimated areas of the Caribbean and recently their numbers have been multiplying around Bermuda. A group of 31 volunteers has now been issued special licenses by the Ministry of the Environment and Sports to use scuba equipment to cull the invasive Lionfish which are threatening Bermuda's reef ecosystem and commercial fishing.   

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Pacific Bikini diving forced to close
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After operating for 13-years, financial losses have forced closure of scuba diving at Bikini Atoll. 

The problems are due to the inability of the national carrier Air Marshall Islands to get passengers to and from Bikini in the past eight months when both its planes were crippled with mechanical problems, coupled with high fuel prices.

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Australia Divers survive 19-hours in the water
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Richard Neely, 38, from the UK, and partner Alison Dalton, 40, an American, drifted for 19 hours off Australia's Great Barrier Reef as rescuers failed to spot them. 

They tied themselves together as they drifted for nine miles after surfacing too far from the boat they had dived off.

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Philippines Crown-of-thorns decimate Palawan is reefs
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Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) have reduced Green Island Bay’s coral cover by as much as 60% since 2007. The bay harbours one of the Philippines’ few remaining populations of dugong.

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US Divers strike gold
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Treasure hunting divers have recovered a priceless artefact 32 miles off Key West as they follow the debris trail of a Spanish galleon that sank off the Florida Keys more than 380 years ago.

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Micronesia
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Illegal Philippine fishing boats  

Greenpeace says its ship Esperanza found evidence of illegal tuna fishing in international waters between Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia last week. The vessels were Philippine-registered.

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Taiwan Taiwanese divers found alive
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Eight Taiwanese scuba divers have been rescued nearly 48 hours after going missing.  In an amazing feat of endurance, one of them managed to swim ashore and told rescuers where they could find the others. 

Five were lifted from the sea by helicopters at dawn Monday and the last two missing divers were found later.

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