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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...

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...

Egypt 6-3

Red Sea Diving College awarded the 2007 HEPCA Defender of the Sea

Red Sea Diving College, Sharm El Sheikh, has been awarded the 2007 HEPCA Defender of the Sea award in recognition of its recent environmental work.

The award praised Red Sea Diving College for its ongoing clean-up programmes, and for building an artificial reef in Na’ama Bay to take pressure off nearby natural reefs.

UK
Rare whale vomit find could earn £500,000

Rare whale vomit find could earn dog-walking beachcombers’ £500,000 if it is true ambergris,

Beachcombers Sean Kane and Ian Foster, are hoping that a discovery of 110lb of whale vomit washed up on the beach could net them more than £500,000.

The sweet-smelling, waxy substance is more commonly known as ambergris, and is used in the manufacture of perfume, but Sean and Ian may lose out as in recent times the perfume industry has mainly switched to synthetic compounds as ambergris is seen as a by-product of the whaling industry.

The pair were walking a dog at Criccieth in North Wales when they made their find.

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