Diving in Two Fish Divers, Bunaken Island0

April 26th, 2007 by admin in Scuba diving and Stories and NEWS

A diving report for our German speeaking readers from Eva-Maria Krieger .

Wir sind gerade aus Indonesien zurückgekommen und waren Mitte März eine komplette Woche bei den Two Fish Divers, einer englischen PADI Tauchbasis, auf Bunaken Island.
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Scubapro X650 Diving Regulators Recalled for Drowning Hazard0

April 23rd, 2007 by admin in RECALLS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

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Assessing Fitness to Return to Diving after Decompression Illness0

April 23rd, 2007 by admin in ARTICLES and Medicine

The DMAC in the UK, (The Diving Medical Advisory Committee) has the following ‘Guidance’ concerning the return to diving of commercial divers who have had decompression illness. These have not been updated since 1994, but appear valid for divers now. The main difference between commercial divers and sport divers is the multiday, multidive aspect of recreational diving and the ability of commercial diving to recompress immediately on the dive boat. more…

New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents, Life Form Discovered0

April 23rd, 2007 by admin in Science

Unusual jellyfish look like serpent-haired Medusa

April 18, 2007

A new “black smoker”–an undersea mineral chimney emitting hot springs of iron-darkened water–has been discovered at 8,500-foot depths by an expedition funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore the Pacific Ocean floor off Costa Rica.
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Palmer Station, Antarctica Celebrates Earth Day With an Underwater Clean Up0

April 23rd, 2007 by admin in General

Residents at Palmer Station, a year-round U.S. research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, removed old debris from the sea floor near the station in late April 2007, as a part of an annual Earth Day clean up.
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Aquanaut emerges from biosub0

April 19th, 2007 by admin in Technology and NEWS

BREATHING air provided by algae watered with recycled urine, and pedalling a bike for electricity, an Australian aquanaut emerged today after 13 days living underwater in a “biosub”.
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Frigate HMAS Adelaide to be sunk off new south wales coast0

April 12th, 2007 by admin in Military and NEWS and Wrecks

From the Australian minister of defense: “I am pleased to announce I have selected New South Wales to be gifted the Royal Australian Navy Guided Missile Frigate HMAS Adelaide for sinking as a dive wreck. more…

Tracking Field Marshal Rommels gold-hunter0

April 10th, 2007 by admin in General and Military and NEWS

The hunt is on for an Oxford man who could help pinpoint the location of a hoard of sunken Nazi gold.

Terry Hodgkinson, a scriptwriter for Oxfordshire-based detective drama Midsomer Murders, is planning a TV documentary about a search for a £10m haul of gold and diamonds, known as Rommel’s Gold.

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Robot Sub to Probe Sunken Cruise Ship - Sea Diamond0

April 10th, 2007 by admin in ROV, AUV, UUV and NEWS and Wrecks

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek rescuers will deploy a robot submarine to search for the bodies of two French tourists believed to have drowned when a cruise ship sank off a resort island in the Aegean Sea last week, authorities said Monday, April 9th, 2007.

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Oxygen chambers can ease cystitis0

April 7th, 2007 by admin in ARTICLES and Medicine

Spending time in a pressurised oxygen chamber can significantly reduce the symptoms of chronic cystitis.

In a clinical trial, the treatment reduced symptoms - which include bladder irritation and pelvic tenderness - by about a third in some cases, and the effects were long-lasting. more…