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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