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...

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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PADI & SSI
Training

PADI and SSI Share the Stage for Peak Performance Business Solutions at DEMA 

Innovative business program open to all retail and resort operators.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – 18 September 2007 - The rules for growing your business have changed, as have the rules for growing the industry, which is why PADI Worldwide President and Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Drew Richardson, and Scuba Schools International Vice President and Executive Director of International Sales, Doug McNeese, are cohosting an unprecedented seminar that delivers real-world answers to today’s changing dive business environment. All dive center and resort operators are invited to attend Peak Performance Business Solutions hosted at The Rosen Centre hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA on 30 October 2007.

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Galapagos
ECO

Corals threatened 

For the first time in history, the IUCN Red List of threatened species includes three corals.A study sponsored by Conservation International (CI) and implemented jointly with the IUCN (World Conservation Union)

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Indonesia Diving the Spice Islands
Destinations

ImageText and photos by: Beth and Shaun Tierney

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Looking down over the wall from the shallows, we watch the most impressive of fish displays. Masking the deep blue water, ribbons of redtooth triggers swim above waves of rainbow runners who mingle with masses of lined snapper.

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Yorkshire fisherman lands thresher shark
ECO

A Yorkshire fisherman got more than he bargained for when he caught a large thresher shark, weighing 1,000lb just 200 yards off the Yorkshire coast. According to one newspaper, Pip Farline had to call other fishermen to help him haul in the shark.

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DAN and SSI announce an alliance
Training

DAN and SSI are to work together to promote diver safety. SSI dive stores will encourage divers to participate in DAN safety and protection programmes.

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Fijian PADI Instructors
Training

ImageFijian PADI Instructors

PADI IRRA Resort, Pro Dive Taveuni proudly reported recently that they had two new Fijian PADI Dive Instructors.

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news September 2007
News

Malta
Wreck sunk for divers off Malta attracts looters
A recently scuttled P-29 wreck has proved popular with divers, but it has also attracted looters who have been stealing whatever they can break off or unscrew.

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US Monterey Bay Aquarium puts another great white shark on display
ECO
For the third time the Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed a young white shark on public exhibition, the shark was caught accidentally with commercial fishermen gear off Southern California.
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news August 2007
News

UK

Creative UK underwater filmmaker and photographer dies

Award-winning underwater filmmaker, photographer and environmentalist Mike Portelly, 55, died in early July after a long fight with cancer.

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