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OZTeK’07 17-18 March Sydney 2007

Beyond Open Water
Putting the thrill and adventure back into diving, the OZTeK’07 Dive Exhibition & Conference is rapidly gathering momentum to again deliver one of the world’s most exciting and dynamic diving spectaculars.

The Tech Section

Technical Editor Steve Burton is the director of technical diving & engineering services at Mermaids Dive Center in Pattaya, Thailand. He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

In my youth I always took great pleasure sitting in an English pub propping up a corner of the building with my considerable mass. With the glass in my hand containing the beverage of the discerning dipso, so far as I am concerned there a choice of activities. You may, if the mood takes you, listen in on other peoples conversations, or people watch, or even read a book. But I find that once I am on my third comforting beer I start to get ideas.

L&W: Leading Compressor Manufacturer

The German manufacturer L&W (Lenhardt & Wagner Kompressoren) has been expanding and beginning to network into the Asian market, setting up an Asian sales and support office in Singapore.

Ok, we admit it. We’re wimps. No denial, when it comes down to it we really don’t like cold water diving.

It’s not that there isn’t some fascinating stuff down there but we have tried it and, well, we just don’t enjoy it. We do most of our diving in the tropics: 

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.

Yap is considered the most traditional island in Micronesia