ScubaGlobe Asia Pacific - Volume 5 No.2

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...

Volume 5 No.2

Beuchats VR 200 regulator2

Beuchat make top of the line regulators, using state-of-the-art materials in the first stage and user-friendly features in the second stage to make breathing easier and safer.
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TEC REC Program Major Highlight in Korea

PADI Asia Pacific organised a very successful DSAT Tec Rec Seminar at Suwon World Cup Swimming Pool, on November 11, 2007. Suwon is located approximately 30km south SE of Seoul, Korea.
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USA Virgin Shark Pregnant Again

A second pup is on the way for a virgin white-spotted bamboo shark at Carl Hayden Community High School - USA.

Teacher Fredi Lajvardi, programme manager for the Carl Hayden Center for Marine Science, again explained parthenogenesis. This type of birth occurs when an unfertilized egg develops into a new pup.

Australia

OZTeK’09: “The Ultimate Underwater Adventure”

Continuing to receive high praise since its inception in 1999 and now widely acclaimed as one of the world’s most dynamic diving events, the sixth AustralAsian Diving Technologies Conference and Exhibition - OZTeK’09 – will take place over the week-end of the 21st – 22nd March 2009, at Australian Technology Park, in Sydney, Australia.

USA

White House Plans to Address Trash in the Ocean Boosts Project AWARE’s International Cleanup Efforts

Beaches across Asia Pacific saw record numbers of volunteers cleaning up underwater and on shore for International Cleanup Day 2007 and now The White House unveils its plans to address trash in the ocean.

The White House decision is welcomed by Project AWARE who already spearheads thousands of clean ups every year in a bid to conserve underwater environments worldwide.

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