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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Volume 6 No.4
PADI Launches Emergency Oxygen Provider Course
ImageThe Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is launching the new Emergency Oxygen Provider Specialty course with the goal of improving diver accident preparedness by teaching how and when to give oxygen to an injured diver.
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PADI Dry Suit Specialty Course

ImageAnywhere, Anytime

Learn not to let cold water restrict where and when you dive. As the leaves on the trees begin to fall, so does the water temperature of places we dive.

Like ducks migrating, my buddy and I often plan to leave these sites, packing up our dive gear to head to warmer climates.  It needn’t be like that.

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California

Great white tracked

A young white shark returned to the wild by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in February, has travelled past the southern tip of Baja California and is heading toward waters off the Mexican mainland, according to data from an electronic tracking tag attached to the animal.

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Florida

Spotted eagle ray kills woman 

A Michigan woman was killed off the Florida Keys after being struck by a spotted eagle ray that had jumped out of the water. Judy Kay Zagoski was riding in a boat travelling at some 25 miles per hour when she was struck in the face by the ray.

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