SCUBA News 14
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) Issue 14 - June 2001 www.scubatravel.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello again, and welcome to the fourteenth issue of SCUBA News. This month: - What's new at SCUBA Travel - Diving news from around the world If you have any diving news, or comments on this newsletter, we'd love to hear from you. Just fill in our Contact the Editor form. __________________________________________________________ What's New at the SCUBA Travel Web Site ======================================== The gallery continues to grow, with new underwater photos in both rooms. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/photo.html http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/photo2.html See especially the rare photos of mating Octopus. Mating can be risky for the male: he is smaller than the female and risks being attacked. He postures and changes his colour, watched carefully by the female. Once accepted the male stretches a modified arm towards the female - which is shown in our photo. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/octopus_2.html Our Red Sea Life page now includes more fish identification and behaviour notes. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/redsea/redsealife.html Finally, there are more dive operators listed in the Baja California section http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/baja/ __________________________________________________________ Diving News From Around the World ================================= Shark Trust Lobby EU Last Monday the Shark Trust arrived in Brussels to lobby the European Community institutions about shark finning. They even brought a 7ft-long model shark with them to emphasize their point. Finning is the process of cutting off the fins of a shark and then dumping the rest of the body at sea, unused. To find out more, or to sign the Shark Trust's petition against shark finning in EU waters, visit ttp://www.sharktrust.org/ Divers Find Destroyer Wreck The wreck of HMS Exmouth, a World War II destroyer sunk off the Scottish coast with the loss of 189 crew members, has been found. The Ministry of Defence confirmed on Wednesday that a three-year quest had ended successfully. A plaque of remembrance was placed on the wreck in memory of those who died when the vessel went down. The wreck is now covered in sea life BBC Australia to end commercial coral harvest Australia is to phase out commercial coral harvesting on the Great Barrier Reef. While it is prohibited for tourists or private individuals to take coral from the reef, there are currently 36 operators with licences to harvest 200 tonnes of coral a year from 50 authorised areas. Most of the harvested coral is used in private aquariums. But Environment Minister Robert Hill has now said he wants to outlaw the practice which allows licenced scuba divers to chip coral away from the reef using hammers, chisels and metal bars. Reuters \\ADV_____________________________________________________ Download the free Windmill software to log data from GPS and sonar to your spreadsheet, database or mapping program. For diving, marine archaeology, salvage, coral reef conservation and deep-sea research. Visit http://www.windmill.co.uk/gps.html ________________________________________________________ADV\\ * Copyright SCUBA Travel Ltd - http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/ * Reprinting welcomed with this footer included. We are happy for you to copy and distribute this newsletter, and even use parts of it on your own website, providing the above copyright notice is included, and a link back to our website is in place. Previous editions of SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) are archived at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/news.html SUBSCRIBING AND UNSUBSCRIBING Visit http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/news.html and add or remove your e-mail address.
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