SCUBA News 26
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) Issue 26 - June 2002 http://www.scubatravel.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to SCUBA News. We hope you enjoy this June edition, but if you 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: Neutral Buoyancy - 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? ======================================== Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia In late March the world's biggest fish - whale sharks - migrate up the Western Australian coast past the Ningaloo Reef. Besides the whale sharks, is it worth the trip? Read Alan Gurevich's article at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/australia/ningaloo.html Safe Diving Practices SCUBA diving is one of the safer sports, but, as Cpl Leach of the US Marine Corps points out, measures always need to be taken to avoid accidents. Read his article at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/training/safety.html More Thai and Baja Dive Operators We've extended our dive operator listings in both the Thailand and Baja Sections of the site http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/thailand/thailand-dive-centres.html http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/baja/bajaop.html More Locations Covered Our "Elsewhere" Section now includes brief notes on diving in Cyprus and Koh Tao, Thailand. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/scuba.html The World's Top Ten Dives Many thanks if you've voted for your favourite dive sites. This month we've new entries for Holmes Reef in Australia and the Blue Hole in Belize. Cast your vote and view the full list at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/topdives.html Next Month Next month look out for a new wreck diving room in our photo gallery, and an interview with cave diving author Andrew Ward. __________________________________________________________ Your Letters ============ Can you help me find out the dive school at the Baron Resort Hotel in Sharm El Seikh, Egypt, and any info on whether they are any good??? Many Thanks Simon Watts -- We have no experience of the hotel or dive school there - do you? Let us know at news@scubatravel.co.uk :ADV_____________________________________________________ Manage your mailing list with Subscribe Me. Send newsletters and announcements to your your contacts and customers. Visit www.cgiscriptcenter.com ______________________________________________________ADV: __________________________________________________________ SCUBA News Bookshelf: Neutral Buoyancy - adventures in a liquid world, by Tim Ecott =============================================== During the writing of this book, Tim Ecott interviewed the pioneers of diving. Hans and Lottie Hass of course, and Dottie Frazier-May the first female diving instructor. He also met Dickie Greenland, one of the few surviving wartime "human torpedoes". In dreadful weather conditions Lieutenant Greenland rode a small chariot into an Italian harbour and blew up enemy destroyers. Unable to exit the harbour he was captured, spending the rest of the war as a prisoner. Ecott travelled to Florida to talk to an aquanaut - one of the few men to have lived underwater in the largely forgotten habitat experiments of the 60's. He even managed to find an underwater hotel to visit. The book also tells of the more distant history of diving - such as Edmund Halley's diving bell patented in 1691 and the 17th century treasure seekers. The sponge-divers' story certainly opened my eyes. I had believed sponge harvesting drastically reduced the number of sponges and damaged the environment. In fact sponge trimmings thrown back into the sea regenerate into new sponges, as do the sponge stumps left by the divers. And most of the sponges sold in the Mediterranean are imported from America. The author wanted the book to inspire people to take up diving and act as advocates for the preservation of the marine environment. He hoped readers will discover something about diving they hadn't come across before. He has almost certainly succeeded in both his aims. His meticulously researched stories, interspersed with Ecott's own experiences - good and bad - has produced a delightful, and enlightening, read. Neutral Buoyancy was released on the 30th of May in paperback in the UK. It is available from + Amazon.co.uk, with 20% off + It will soon also be available from Amazon.com, with 20% off or you can buy the book now in hardback from Amazon.com Read our interview with the author, Tim Ecott... View more diving book reviews and interviews with authors... __________________________________________________________ Diving News From Around the World ================================= FBI SEEKS SUSPICIOUS INDIVIDUALS According to the Divers Alert Network, the FBI is "interested in any information concerning suspicious individuals who started dive training but did not complete it". They presumably mean that you were suspicious of them rather than vice versa, but fail to elucidate upon what your suspicions should be based. http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/news/ FREEDIVING RECORD On May 29 Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, of the Performance freediving Team, set a new women's Static world record. Cruickshank did a breath hold of 6 minutes and 16 seconds to surpass the previous record help by Karoline Del toe of Brazil. (Freediving or breath-hold diving is a type of advanced snorkelling.) http://performancefreediving.com/ SHIPPING SCUPPERS WHALES' MATING CALLS Scientists now think that the call of the finback whale may be mating calls rather than navigation signals. Recordings made in the Sea of Cortez (Baja California) found that the calls are made exclusively by males, raising concerns that shipping noise is affecting whale courtship. Better maintenance of engines, etc, would reduce the interference. http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/06/06192002/ GALAPAGOS DOLPHINS DIE IN FISHING NETS Nearly 50 dolphins have died, caught by a tuna boat fishing illegally off the Galapagos. Industrial fishing is prohibited within 40-miles of the islands http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/06/06182002/ __________________________________________________________ * 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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