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ScubaGlobe Vol 6 No.4 -
Destination
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 By Cedric Verdier,
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What could be the common point between a fish exporter from Norway, a Chief Information Officer and diving instructor living in the Netherlands, a renowned lawyer based in Cyprus, a Project Managerworking in Sweden, and a Technical Diving Instructor far from France? Since summer 2007, Spyros and Cedric have been discussing about the HMS Victoria, the impressive and quite unusual wreck that lies vertical between 140m/460ft and 77m/250ft, her bow deeply stuck in a thick layer of silt, a few miles off Tripoli, Lebanon. |
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On June 14, 2008, representatives of PADI received certificates from Dr Peter Jonas of EUF Certification International, stating PADI’s compliance with the suite of ISO standards covering the delivery of recreational diver training.
Each year, leading scuba equipment supplier - Oceanic Australia convenes the Oceanic Scuba Centres Conference. This year the Conference was held in beautiful Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia and involved the country’s finest scuba retailers and an array of very impressive local and international speakers.
There are a lot of myths about the sport of freediving, especially among scuba divers. It’s insanely dangerous. Only super fit people can do it. You have to be a Yogi to do it. If you hold your breath for more than five minutes your brain cells will start dying. And by the way: isn’t it actually just the same as snorkeling? 
Nine candidates completed their weekend Instructor Examinations in Queensland recently including Open Water evaluations that took place in the Mulgrave River, chosen on this occasion for its vicinity to Cairns. 
PADI Instructor Examiner, Young Hee Haniss reports that 
We received an email from Satish Pisharody recently informing us of his 10-year old son Sahil's completion of a PADI Junior Open water certification. While Sahil may not be the youngest ever open water diver, he seems to have pipped the previous record for the youngest Indian open water graduate, as the letter below indicates:
Poseidon has issued the following product information pertaining to its W50 BCD: 
