Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:28:54 -0800 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/ DivePro - Info en-jm http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/images/logo.gif http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/ webmaster@divepro-info.com http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article922.htm NEW YORK — The divers live in a windowless, pressurized chamber for weeks at a time. They descend 700 feet — greater than the height of the Space Needle — to toil for 12-hour shifts in dark, murky water. Then there's the helium they have to breathe to survive at such depths. Their voices are so high support crews need to use a special recording device to translate. Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:28:54 -0800 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article921.htm Federal Minister for Home Affairs Bob Debus has described images of Japanese whaling, captured by Australian customs officials, as horrific. Australian customs ship the Oceanic Viking arrived in the Western Australian port of Fremantle after seven weeks at sea, collecting video and photographic evidence of Japanese whaling activities. Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:23:00 -0800 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article920.htm West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP) -- Ask any shark diver why they do it and the answer is quick and simple — the thrill. From Cape Town to California, Florida and the Bahamas, adventurous divers can slip into the ocean with an experienced guide to observe some of the world's fiercest predators. But some say the search for a thrill has gone too far: baiting the water with bloody fish parts and getting face-to-face to the most aggressive species without cages or protective gear. An Austrian tourist on this kind of dive was fatally bitten by a shark this week. Bans on feeding sharks in Florida and federal waters have pushed some shark diving companies to the Bahamas, about 50 miles off the coast, where 49-year-old Austrian lawyer Markus Groh's tour took him Sunday. He was bitten on the leg and died a day later. Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:16:16 -0800 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article919.htm Http://www.chinadiveexhibition.com Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:31:19 -0800 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article918.htm By JOHN M. CRISP Scripps Howard News Service Here in South Texas, marine-mammal mortality was in the news during the past few weeks. On Sept. 21, Cobie, a 15-year-old bottlenose dolphin housed at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, succumbed to a lung condition that had plagued him all summer. The director of the aquarium says that Cobie was a "wonderful ambassador for his aquatic brethren." Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:34:06 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article917.htm San Diego, California (Oct 29, 2007 16:49 EST) An array of instruments, many built at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, that allows scientists to observe the basic physical state of all world oceans simultaneously is approaching its coverage goal after eight years of deployments. The Argo network of sensor-bearing profiling floats measures ocean water temperature, salinity and velocity to a degree never before possible. The Argo Steering Committee, the international panel of scientists that manage the network, has designated Nov. 1 as the date on which it will reach its full deployment of 3,000 units. The deployment of these final floats will mean that data from every ocean region in the world will be available with average coverage of one sensor per 3 degrees latitude and longitude. Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:33:42 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article916.htm By Ralph Jennings GREEN ISLAND, Taiwan (Reuters) - A tropical island off the coast of Taiwan has become a victim of its own success as pollution caused by a recent spike in tourism threatens its reputation as the best diving spot in East Asia. The aptly named 15-square-kilometre Green Island, an hour's ferry ride from Taiwan's main isle, is fast losing its luster due to garbage and excrement dumped into its azure waters and shrinking reefs plundered by coral-robbing tourists. Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:33:17 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article915.htm The buccaneering ways of yesteryear are returning to the oceans, as salvage teams compete to get their hands on the most valuable shipwrecks. By Jonathan Brown and Esther Walker Captain John Limbrey was a not poor man. When his ship the Merchant Royal put into Cadiz harbour for repairs in January 1637, his personal fortune was estimated at 100,000 gemstones. But in the buccaneering and avaricious spirit of the times, he could not pass up the opportunity to make a little more. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:04:47 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article914.htm By Peter Popham in Rome The Italian government has given approval for a liquefied natural gas terminal to be installed on a huge ship anchored 12 miles off the coast of Livorno, in Tuscany, in the middle of a whale and dolphin sanctuary. The Cetaceans Sanctuary of the Mediterranean covers an area of about 100,000 square kilometres from the coast of Tuscany in Italy to Toulon in the south of France, and includes the whole of Corsica and the northern coast of Sardinia. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:03:46 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article913.htm BY TOBY MUSE MALPELO, Colombia -- With lethargic grace, the hammerhead shark slices through the blue gloom. It flicks its T-shaped head this way and that, surveying its underwater domain with the surety of knowing that the food chain comes to an abrupt end in its mouth. The shark is cruising some 20 feet beneath me as I snorkel through the turbulent waters surrounding the Pacific islet of Malpelo, a Colombian wildlife sanctuary and gem for scuba divers. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:02:57 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article912.htm OSAKA, JAPAN - October 28, 2007 -- Acclaimed professional surfer and dolphin defender Dave Rastovich made a bold declaration against the ongoing commercial slaughter of dolphins in Japan by leading an international crew of surfers, musicians, actors and activists in a traditional surfing "paddle-out" ceremony to honor the memory of the thousands of dolphins killed each year at the notorious "killing cove" in Taiji Japan. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:02:28 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article911.htm Moscow: Russia will file a claim to the gigantic mineral wealth of the Arctic seabed with the United Nations by the end of the year, Russia's natural resources minister was quoted as saying yesterday. Russia, the world's biggest country, says a whole swathe of the Arctic seabed should belong to Moscow because the area is really an extension of the Siberian continental shelf. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:56:15 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article910.htm TAMPA, Florida - The legal fight between Florida deep-sea explorers and the Spanish government over an estimated $500 million (¤347 million) in sunken treasure could drag on for another year or more, court documents filed Tuesday said. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:53:41 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article909.htm State College, Pennsylvania (Oct 31, 2007 19:36 EST) The latest development in a major debate over a controversial hypothesis of biodiversity and species abundance is the subject of a paper to be published in the Nov. 1 issue of the journal Nature The authors report good agreement between the species richness of two of the world's most vulnerable ecosystems -- tropical forests and coral reefs -- and a simple mathematical model building on the so-called "neutral theory of biodiversity." "We're helping to refine and improve this theory because it might have important implications for the effort to protect terrestrial biodiversity from climate change and urban development," said Jayanth Banavar of the Department of Physics at Penn State, a member of the research team. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:53:13 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article908.htm David Harrison For years women drivers have endured jokes about map reading and reversing from men who pride themselves on their superior spatial awareness. Underwater, though, the boot – or flipper – is on the other foot. For women divers are much more aware of their surroundings than men, according to a two-year study of scuba divers. "Women have better orientation," said Mandy Shackleton, a marine scientist at Hull University's marine sciences centre. "They have a greater awareness of what is going on around them." Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:46:51 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article907.htm Lawrence, Kansas (Oct 30, 2007 17:37 EST) Scientists have described the oldest definitive jellyfish ever found, using recently discovered "fossil snapshots" found in rocks more than 500 million years old. The jellyfish are unique because they push the known occurrence of jellyfish back from 300 million to 505 million years. The research will be published on October 31 in the journal PLoS ONE. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:46:23 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article906.htm By Alex Duval Smith in Paris After at least 530 million years of clamming up, the oyster has revealed its secret curative properties to mankind. And they are not only aphrodisiac. French biologists who have been studying the way oysters produce nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, believe the process could be replicated to provide cures and preventative treatments for osteoporosis, arthritis and certain skin complaints. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:31:47 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article905.htm MARSEILLE, France (AFP) — Italy, France, Japan and Spain are guilty of the biggest violations of international quotas for bluefin tuna fishing, a report claimed on Wednesday. Countries are assigned fishing quotas by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) to help avert the eventual extinction of the fish, which is highly prized for Japanese sushi and sashimi. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:31:30 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article904.htm By Lou Robson PACKS of great white sharks are feeding off southeast Queensland, experts say. The warmer weather and migrating whales brought the sharks north from their traditional cooler cruising waters in Victoria and South Australia. "The great whites move up with the whales and follow them back down again," said Department of Primary Industries shark-control program manager Tony Ham. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:47:22 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article903.htm By Paula Thompson IT covers 70 per cent of the Earth's surface and could hold the cure for some of our most terrible diseases from cancer to AIDS and MRSA. But we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about our oceans. Despite its importance for human survival, more than 95 per cent of the world's seas remain unexplored and only five per cent of its species have been discovered. MPs warned this week that more scientific research is needed into our seas. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:46:57 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article902.htm Phetchabun, Thailand (Oct 23, 2007 16:01 EST) Chon Daen district Tuesday announced the discovery of two "coral mountains", which are being touted as new tourist attractions. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:46:28 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article901.htm East Anglia, U.K. (Oct 23, 2007 14:41 EST) Further evidence for the decline of the oceans’ historical role as an important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide is supplied by new research by environmental scientists from the University of East Anglia. Since the industrial revolution, much of the CO2 we have released into the atmosphere has been taken up by the world’s oceans which act as a strong ‘sink’ for the emissions. This has slowed climate change. Without this uptake, CO2 levels would have risen much faster and the climate would be warming more rapidly. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:46:04 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article900.htm Plan to Slow Ship Speeds in East Coast Waters Stalls as Agencies Fight Over One of World's Most Endangered Mammals! By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Sixteen months ago, a federal agency proposed slowing ships in certain East Coast waters to 10 knots or less during parts of the year to save the North Atlantic right whale, one of the world's most endangered marine mammals, from extinction. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:42:19 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article899.htm By Dave West The BBC has commissioned a one-off documentary about a South African attempting to pursue his dream of swimming with great white sharks. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:41:42 -0700 http://www.dpi.divepro-info.com/Article898.htm by Alex Chadwick In Palmyra Atoll, scientists are taking advantage of technology to help them track the movements of sharks, birds, fish and other animals. They use tiny devices, called tags, to record or transmit data. But the fish and birds must be caught before they can be tagged, and some, like sharks, are more challenging to get hold of than others. Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:22:43 -0700