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Apollo HID and HMI Video Lighting

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:39:59 +0000

Whether building specialty lighting systems for National Geographic sponsored projects or providing crucial lighting for productions on Japan’s powerhouse entity NHK, Halcyon can increasingly be found center stage with the innovative HID and HMI Apollo Video Lighting Systems.

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The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:37:22 +0000

At first glance, they look like a couple of giant inflatable garden chairs that have washed out to sea

But they are, apparently, the ultimate solution to rapidly rising sea levels.

This computer-generated image shows two floating cities, each with enough room for 50,000 inhabitants.
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Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:56:42 +0000

BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
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Prehistoric find located beneath the Swiss waves

admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:46:23 +0000

Archaeologists have discovered traces of Switzerland’s oldest known building, but it will never draw tourists: it lies underwater in the middle of a lake.
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U.S. Gives Russia Data on Mysterious Cold War Sunken Submarine K-129

admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:39:35 +0000

By MIKE ECKEL
The Associated Press
Monday, September 10, 2007; 4:07 PM

MOSCOW — U.S. military officials on Monday gave Russia a videotape and other archival materials on the Soviet K-129 submarine, whose sinking in 1968 is one of the lingering mysteries of the Cold War.
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Dover Strait U-boat to be moved

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:36:58 +0000

The wreck of a World War I German submarine is to be moved because it is a danger to shipping off Dover.
The U-boat, which has been in the Dover Strait since 1918, is 23.5m (77ft) below the surface, which does not leave enough clearance for modern ships.
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Summer field course 2007 at Ikaria, Greece

admin — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:48:03 +0000

Marine Scientific Illustration & Underwater Photography, Aegean Sea, Greece

This course is aimed at students and graduates of Illustration, Design, Marine Biology and Environmental Sciences, as well as of related fields.
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Deep sea divers opt for Nasdaq flotation

admin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:36:25 +0000

Serious investors are putting money into a business once the preserve of buccaneers

On the bridge of the Odyssey Explorer the talk was not about stocks and shares but about the Spanish patrol boats at the entrance to Gibraltar’s port, waiting to search her hold for hidden treasure.
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Divers in Sweden discover Soviet World War II submarine

admin — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:00:01 +0000

Stockholm - A team of Finnish and Sweden nationals have discovered a Soviet submarine that sank in 1942 after being rammed by a Finnish submarine, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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Doctor starts blog to help divers understand risks when underwater

admin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:45:48 +0000

Each year, five to six diving deaths occur in South-east Asia, and about 25 Singaporean divers fall victim to decompression sickness — a potentially fatal condition that can occur when divers surface too quickly.
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BRITANNIC Expedition 2007

admin — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:14:22 +0000

Hellas Underwater Explorers (HUE)/Petrou George have the honour to announce the agreement with Britannic Foundation. According with this agreement HUE is going to be responsible for the Britannic Expedition 2007. The expedition will take place from 10-13th of September 2007 in Kea Island, Greece.
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157-year-old shipwreck found in lake

admin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:35:07 +0000

VERMILION, Ohio, USA - The wreckage of a steamship that sank in 1850 after its boilers exploded has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Erie.
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Nina Preisner breaks world record in 159.8m (525ft) dive to wrecked cargo ship

admin — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:28:27 +0000

A Briton who gave up her job as a lawyer to pursue a career in watersports has claimed the record for the world’s deepest dive on to a wreck by a woman.
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Japan’s Ama Women Divers

admin — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:47:18 +0000

SHIRAHAMA, Japan. Japan’s legendary ama women shellfish divers, immortalised on stamps and in the 1967 James Bond film “You Only Live Twice”, have grown older and their numbers have declined but they still enjoy their work and earn enough to carry on.
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Sharm bridge plan shelved

admin — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:20:19 +0000

Plans to build a bridge linking Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh with the Saudi Arabian mainland have been postponed, following a refusal by Egypt’s President Mubarak.
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Claims sunken warship HMAS Sydney finally found

admin — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:09:26 +0000

A BRITISH maritime researcher claims to have solved one of Australia’s greatest wartime mysteries by locating the wreck of HMAS Sydney.
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sport-dive.com - the new community on the internet for divers!

admin — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:29:16 +0000

The site is for everyone who loves water and especially those who like recreational diving, technical diving and free diving.

If you become member of this community you can meet other divers over the whole planet and seek dive places that you only could dream of.
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Recall - Apeks Yoke Screw potential fault

admin — Sun, 27 May 2007 10:28:49 +0000

British dive equipment manufacturer Apeks has announced a recall on a batch of first-stage regulator yoke clamp screws.
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Diving-Industry.com Newsletter Mai 2007

admin — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:01:35 +0000

1 - New listings in the “Directory”
2 - New listings in the “Dive Centers”
3 - Intoducing the new section “Gallery”
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Divers Meeting Organized by the Abyss Club, Greece

admin — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:16:24 +0000

The cosmopolitan and picturesque town of Loutraki will host the second nation wide divers meeting organized by the Abyss Club.
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