SCUBA News 27
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) Issue 27 - July 2002 http://www.scubatravel.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to the July edition of SCUBA News. We hope you enjoy it, 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 - Interview with cave diving author, Andrew Ward - 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? ======================================== Baja Dive Operators There is now even more information on our Baja Dive Operators page http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/baja/bajaop.html Dominican Republic and Koh Tao Our "Elsewhere" Section now includes another view on the Dominican Republic and more on diving in Koh Tao, Thailand. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/scuba.html Photo Gallery More photos are in our gallery - see especially those from Red Sea wrecks. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/photo4.html __________________________________________________________ Your Letters ============ I am planning to go to Santorini in September, and the diving I have been told is great. But I cannot find a dive centre anywhere on the internet. Can anybody recommend any dive co. to dive with whilst Im there and if anyone can let me know for sure if the diving is good. Thanx. Sián Belton -- Can you help Sian? If you know anything about diving in Santorini e-mail news@scubatravel.co.uk :ADV_____________________________________________________ Save money on a vast selection of posters and prints: whales, sharks, dolphins, fish, seascapes...Browse the offers at Allposters ______________________________________________________ADV: __________________________________________________________ Interview with Andrew Ward, Author of Underwater guide to the Lot & Dordogne ========================================================= Andrew Ward's book - "Underwater guide to the Lot & Dordogne, France" - describes one of the greatest cave diving areas in the world. The three rivers, Dordogne, Lot and Céle in the central, southern region of France offer over a dozen classic cave dives including some of the longest and deepest siphons in the country. The first time Andrew Ward visited the Lot/Dordogne area, in the mid 1990's, he had a few bits of paper with site locations on (but not many). Towards the end of the trip some French divers pointed out more locations, but his group still missed many of the sites. At that time no Fench or English guide existed to the cave dives and so he decided (with Cave Diving Group backing) to produce an English language guide to help others. There followed many hours trawling through caving literature, mainly in French, to find more information. Andrew's favourite dive in the area is The Ressel. It was his first dive in the Lot and he always starts and ends his trips to the area with a dive in the Ressel. He and his companions leave a few bottles of beer to cool in the entrance on the last day's dive, to drink as they float back to the landing point. And outside the area? "There are a few sites I like: Hurtle pot (Yorkshire Dales) is a nice dive as is Gothic sump in OFD (Ogof Ffynnon Ddu cave) but if pushed I would go for Blane Hepste resurgence (South Wales) through sumps 1 to 3. Myself and Garth Hardman found the way on in the cave from sump 2." We asked Andrew about any bad diving experiences he has had. "I have been lucky ! I have never had a heart stopping event. With cave diving it is normally binary if it goes wrong in a cave (alive or dead)." Born in 1959, Andrew Ward is an electronics engineer. He started caving in 1977 on Mendip (England), and cave diving with the Welsh section of the CDG (cave diving group) in 1983. He is a member, qualified diver and examiner, of the CDG and South Wales Caving Club (SWCC). In the UK he normally caves in South Wales or the Forest of Dean and tries to get to the Lot two or three times a year. Besides caving he loves Cricket and is captain of Cam Cricket Club Sunday team. He also enjoys mountain biking. "I'm lucky to live in a house on the edge of extensive woodland near Cam, Gloucestershire so have a large area to play in." Andrew has been married to Sue, a superintendent radiographer, for 20 years. He has two sons, David and Chris, and three Guinea pigs (Fudge, Bungle and Boddington). You can buy Underwater guide to the Lot & Dordogne from http://www.lot46.com/. (Aven International Publications, Swindon, SN2 2AZ; e-mail: icaver@aol.com; £7 plus Postage and Packaging.) For more details of cave diving in France see our Cave Diving section For more interviews with authors, and diving book reviews, visit http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/interview.html __________________________________________________________ Diving News From Around the World ================================= THAILAND OPENS UNDERWATER MEDICAL CENTRE Thailand has opened an underwater medical science centre in Phuket. It will provide care for people suffering from illnesses after diving. Previously, tourists with diving-related illness had to go to Singapore for treatment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2095532.stm DIVERS IN RECORD GOZO CROSSING Two divers have crossed the Gozo channel for the first time underwater. Edwin Zammit and Nader Bassily covered the 4.65km stretch of water in around three-and-a-half hours http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2159639.stm :ADV_____________________________________________________ Log data from GPS, sonar and other instruments to your database or mapping program with the free Windmill software. For diving, marine archaeology, salvage, coral reef monitoring, etc. Download your free copy at http://www.windmill.co.uk/gps.html ____________________________________________________ADV: FAULTY DIVE COMPUTERS RECALLED 1700 SCUBAPRO/Uwatec dive computers give inacurate readings and are thus being recalled. They were sold in the US from January to May of this year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2138479.stm
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