SSI Introduces Technical Diving Program - TechXR0

December 25th, 2006 by admin in Scuba diving and NEWS

SSI enters the technical diving market with the official launch of the SSI Technical Extended Range program. It will be abbreviated as “TXR”. The TXR product launch includes four courses which are: Technical Foundations, Decompression Procedures, Normoxic Trimix, and Advanced Decompression. Let’s Go Xtreme!

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Calls to stop divers desecrating underwater war graves0

December 19th, 2006 by admin in General and NEWS and Wrecks

CAMPAIGNERS have warned that a legal loophole is enabling divers to desecrate the war graves of hundreds of British servicemen killed at sea, including those who died on Sir Galahad.

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Midget sub discovery stirs ghosts of the past0

December 14th, 2006 by admin in Military and NEWS and Wrecks

KAZUTOMO BAN, 74, a retired doctor, remembers going to the train station with his mother to see his brother, Sub-Lieutenant Katsuhisa Ban, off to war in 1941.

It was a scene being repeated all over Japan, but the older brother, from a proud Imperial Navy family, already knew he would never return.

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North Sea divers were drugged0

December 4th, 2006 by admin in Offshore and NEWS

A medical expert is convinced that she has found a new aspect to the controversy around the treatment of the Norwegian divers that helped create Norway’s petroleum wealth beginning in the mid 1960s.

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North Sea divers sue state0

December 2nd, 2006 by admin in Offshore and NEWS

Several of the divers who played a key role in building up Norway’s offshore oil industry are suing the state, charging that they weren’t informed about the risks of diving as deeply as they did at the time in the North Sea.

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