SCUBA News 25
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) Issue 25 - May 2002 http://www.scubatravel.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Greetings and welcome to SCUBA News. We hope you enjoy this issue, but if you should wish to cancel your subscription you can do so at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/news.html This month - What's new at SCUBA Travel? - Your Letters - SCUBA News Bookshelf - 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? ======================================== Diving in The Philippines The Philippines has not received great press over the last two years even though 99% of the country is beautiful, trouble free and amongst the best diving in Asia. Our thanks to Andy Pope for this Philippines article. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/philippines/ Diving Posters and Prints You can now buy posters and prints of underwater life through the web site: fish, whales, dolphins, sharks... http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/posters.html http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/posters2.html __________________________________________________________ Your Letters ============ This month we've had requests to help locate divers. Do you know of the whereabouts of either of these people? Hallo We are searching the e-mail address of Kal Muller! Can anybody help us?? Please mailto:sdeng@nux-acid.org or sdeng@gmx.de Best regards, Sabine and Jochem Dengler -- Looking for Dave and Wendy Kirk. Ex RAF. Age 58. Runs a Dive School in Saudi. Worried as I havn't heard from him for over a year. Contact me if you have any info John Stride john.stride@tesco.net __________________________________________________________ SCUBA News Bookshelf: Fire in the Turtle House, by Osha Gray Davidson =============================================== The author's previous work (The Enchanted Braid*) was a successful blend of aesthetic appreciation, scientific enquiry and environmental manifesto and, in my opinion, a ‘must’ companion for divers venturing to the tropics. I had high expectations of Fire in the Turtle House. ..and I was not disappointed. Fire in the Turtle House deals with the incredible pressures faced by the green sea turtle throughout the world and points alarmingly to wider environmental concerns that threaten the fabric of the world's oceans. Davidson shows how turtles have been hunted to a shadow of their former glory and how they now face widespread fibropapillomatosis (or ‘FP’), a debilitating plague of tumours that threatens to consign them to the history books. The author has researched the material for the book with characteristic rigor whilst travelling to the major locations and visiting dedicated experts in turtle research, conservation and management. The writing has a solid scientific foundation but in this book the 'story' of the FP outbreak is unfolded piece by piece through the evocative accounts of the experiences of the people that are responsible for our understanding of the mounting present day plague. The book gathers pace from the first discovery of FP into a race-against-time; becoming increasingly difficult to put down. This has been deservedly described as "science writing at its best". I believe that the way the world's oceans are managed needs to change and if you ever doubted it you should read this book. Review by Dr Bill Sanderson + Fire in the Turtle House is available, with 13% off, from Amazon.co.uk at + And also from Amazon.com, with 30% off * The Enchanted Braid is reviewed at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/enchanted.html For more diving book reviews, and interviews with authors, visit http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/interview.html __________________________________________________________ Diving News From Around the World ================================= DIVE THE DEEP SEAS Fancy diving the wreck of the Bismark at 4600 m (15000')? Or the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? Or even the Titanic? If you've deep pockets you can now book your place aboard a MIR submersible. http://www.wildwings.co.uk/ BRITAIN TO PROTECT 10% OF HER SEAS Thousands of square miles of UK seas are destined to become protected Marine Parks, safeguarding over 44000 species, according to the Marine Stewardship Report recently published by the British government. http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/marine/stewardship/ SHERWOOD RECALLS MAXIMUS REGULATORS Sherwood has received reports of broken second stage orifices of SRB5600, SRB5600D2 and SRB5600CE Maximus Regulators with the these serial numbers: SRB5600 - K600001 through K611834 SRB5600CE - EK60001 through EK62000 SRB5600D2 - DK60000 through DK62000 Visit an authorised Sherwood dealer for a free replacement. http://www.sherwoodscuba.com/ DISCOVERY OF NEW FISH AND CORALS IN MADAGASCAR A recent one-month marine survey more than doubled the number of corals previously thought to exist in Madagascan waters and identified several new species of fish and as many as nine new corals! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0515_020515_0515TVmadagascar.html GOLF BALL DIVER WINS APPEAL A British man jailed for donning SCUBA gear and retrieving golf balls lost in ponds, has won his appeal and is a free man. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1998000/1998153.stm FREE MARKET ECONOMY ON CORAL REEF Cleaner wrasse, which nibble parasites from bigger fish, lose clients if they cheat and eat the fishes' mucus covering rather than its irritants - according to a recent study undertaken in the Red Sea. http://www.bsac.org/ __________________________________________________________ * Copyright SCUBA Travel Ltd - http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/ * Reprinting welcomed with this footer included. 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