Guidelines for Recreational Diving with Diabetes0

March 31st, 2006 by admin in Diving medicine and NEWS

Ern Cambell have placed the following summary of guidelines for recreational diving with diabetes recommended by UHMS/DAN workshop on our web site at http://www.scuba-doc.com/endmet.html#Diabetes_and_Diving
(Proceedings of the UHMS/DAN 2005 June 19 Workshop. Durham, NC:Divers Alert Network; 2005.)

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HMS Victoria’s Secret - Lebanon8

March 31st, 2006 by admin in ARTICLES and Wrecks

Christian Francis, the owner of Lebanon Divers dive center had been searching for HMS Victoria, the flagship of the British Mediterranean Feet since 1996.

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OZTeK’070

March 31st, 2006 by admin in Expos & Events and NEWS

Widely acclaimed as one of the world’s most dynamic diving events, the fifth AustralAsian Diving Technologies Conference and Exhibition - OZTeK’07 – will take place over the week-end of the 17th – 18th March 2007, at Australian Technology Park, in Sydney.
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China Plans to Make Russian Aircraft Carrier Into Artificial Reef0

March 31st, 2006 by admin in Scuba diving and NEWS

The Russian aircraft carrier Minsk converted into a theme park in the southern Chinese town of Shenzhen could find its final resting place as an artificial reef in Hong Kong waters, DPA news agency reported on Tuesday.

The agency quoted an article in the China Morning Post daily which said that the plan to turn the 40,000-tonne ’Minsk’ into a marine life haven had been proposed by marine specialist Charlie Frew after the unsuccessful auction of the ship earlier this year.
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UK’s North Sea Faces Rig Shortage0

March 31st, 2006 by admin in Offshore and NEWS

The British Goverment government is putting together an action plan to solve a rig shortage crisis in the North Sea, but experts claim that no new rigs are available for hire until the end of 2007, the Sunday Herald reported.
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Freediver aims to go where no American diver has gone before0

March 31st, 2006 by admin in Freediving and NEWS

Mercury news

SANTA ANA, California USA. - Climbing Mount Everest takes weeks of acclimatizing, getting used to the altitude and little oxygen. The same is true in freediving, except you’re going in the opposite direction with no oxygen at all.

For three weeks, George “Doc” Lopez of Laguna Beach, Calif., has been holding his breath and diving to new depths daily off the Cayman Islands. He is preparing for the Cayman 2006 Sink Faze on-April 7.

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Kiribati Creates Third Largest Marine Park0

March 31st, 2006 by admin in Scuba diving and Marine biology and NEWS

CURITABA, Brazil — A tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean has created the world’s third-largest marine reserve, as global efforts to preserve biodiversity widen to include everything from insects to fish to forests.
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Oceana international marine experts in Brussels0

March 27th, 2006 by admin in Conservation and NEWS

The international organisation Oceana, dedicated to the research and protection the oceans of the world, with members in more than 150 countries, will be holding a meeting in Brussels between 9 and 11 May to analyse the current situation of the oceans.

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Canada joins with Denmark to map depths of the Arctic3

March 27th, 2006 by admin in Offshore and NEWS

Ottawa, Canada — As daylight returns to the High Arctic, Canadian and Danish scientists are about to begin an expedition to map an underwater mountain ridge that may stretch beyond the North Pole, a geological survey that could help both countries prove their legal claims to vast spans of seabed.

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Mexico’s Mayan underworld proves researchers’ dream0

March 26th, 2006 by admin in General and NEWS

TULUM, Mexico, – The ancient Maya once believed that Mexico’s jungle sinkholes containing crystalline waters were the gateway to the underworld and the lair of a surly rain god who had to be appeased with human sacrifices.

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