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I
am in the throes of completing a book on marine ecosystems. It
has taken more than a year of my life to distil the knowledge
of several hundred scientific articles combined with the results
of an exciting new way to model food webs that are the basis of
ecosystem functioning, i.e. fish eat fish. It has been a dry exercise,
difficult initially to digest the information, difficult to present
it in an easily digestible way. The message is basically that
we (fishers, spearfishers) are fishing out the seas, leaving only
small inedible fish to look at, a process called fishing down
the food web.
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Amazing
colour, beautiful form, funny appetites, unique defenses and one
that practices feminism and masculinity, the nudibranch has it
all.
While the sights of larger reef inhabitants amaze other divers, my hubby and I dive with magnifying lens strapped on to our BCD. Many a time, I have got amused laughs, curious stares and a flow of questions regarding this strange piece of dive equipment. Why? Playing Sherlock Holmes underwater has many rewards especially when hunting down nudibranchs. more |
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Some
of the best underwater scenery is found at the very remotest of
offshore islands, rendering them accessible only to the priveleged
few. The Gulf of Thailand is no exception to this, but this is
all about to change as a couple of operators have just found the
key.
From Koh Samui to Koh Losin, the secrets of the Gulf of Thailand are opening up. As Paul Lees reports, liveaboard diving has finally come of age in the Gulf. more |
Exploring
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Warm Water
Divers Phuket Where 5 Stars Shine |
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There's
a lot more to Warm Water Divers on Patong Beach than meets the
eye. On first impression they appear to be what can only be described
as undoubtedly the best-stocked retail outlet on Phuket Island,
but there's more. Flexibility is the word here; Warm Water Divers
actually promote the full range of scuba diving services.
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The
wreck remains intact, and with the addition of all the marine-life,
is a great place to dive; in fact as far as the marine-life goes,
its right up there with the best of them. |
Get wrecked in Khao Lak |
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Pattaya, Thailand was the location chosen recently for a group of experienced Trimix divers to investigate a recently discovered underwater anomaly at a popular local dive site. Samesan
fishing port, about an hour south of Pattaya, is the boarding
point for many divers heading off for dives at a popular local
shipwreck called the ‘Hardeep'. This interesting intact shipwreck
lying at 28 metres sunk during the Second World War. It is reached
by sailing over an area on the chart ominously labeled ‘Explosives
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Deepest Dives in the Gulf of Thailand? |
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Cave
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If
any of you diving enthusiasts are looking for some new challenges,
cave diving just might be the very thing for you! But it's not for
everyone: it takes discipline, special training and a lot of hard
work. For example, we recently explored some cave systems in northwestern Thailand. After months of research and preparation we were finally ready to make our next exploratory cave diving trip. Two trucks were to provide our transportation, one for all the nitrox tanks and equipment, the other for the divers. more |
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I
have logged almost ever dive possible or could imagine (cold water,
shipwrecks, caves, coral). I have logged many dives below recreational
depth limits and dives with different mixes of gas other then
air. However, when I started diving with a rebreather, I quickly
realized that I was hopping into the water with the beginners.People
would ask me to do this dive or that dive with them but I knew
that shallow beach diving should be my only dives for a while.
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3000
DIVES
AND LEARNING TO DIVE ALL OVER AGAIN |