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SCUBA News 6~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) Issue 7 - November 2000 www.scubatravel.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you for subscribing to the monthly SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011). This month we cover: * What's new at the SCUBA Travel web site? * Interview with the author Steve Barsky * Diving news from around the World * Free Amazon.co.uk voucher We hope you enjoy it - if you have any diving news just fill in our Contact the Editor form, or send press releases to SCUBA Travel, The Cliff, Leek Rd, Upper Mayfield, DE6 2HR UK _________________________________________________________________ What's New at the SCUBA Travel Web Site? ======================================== Not sure what to get your diving friends and family for Christmas? We've selected some of the best diving books to give as presents. Our recommendations include short stories, history of diving and glossy coffee table books about the World's best dive sites. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/presents2.html The wreck of the Yongala, Australia, has been voted the best dive in the World - do you agree? Cast your votes and see the other top nine at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/topdives.html Each month we interview a diving author: this month we talk to Steve Barsky, as reproduced below. For other interviews see http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/interview.html Finally, as usual we have new photographs in our gallery. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/photo.html _________________________________________________________________ SCUBA News Bookshelf: Interviews with Authors ============================================= This month Steve Barsky, author of many diving books, talks to SCUBA Travel. The first "book" I wrote was the Dry Suit Diving Manual. It was the first book on dry suit diving and was well received, but was poorly marketed (not by me). I had already been writing articles for magazines, so writing a book wasn't really a big leap. It just took more material. What kept me going was the creation of my second book, Diving in High-Risk Environments, which has been a very important book for commercial divers and people who work in search and rescue. My favourite dives have included shark dives in the Coral Sea, the wreck of the Yongala off Australia, many dives at the Channel Islands, Stingray City and the walls of Grand Cayman. Also, some of my deep commercial dives stand out vividly in my memory. My wife and I have always wanted to dive Truk and Palau. Hopefully, we'll get there in the next few years. My worst diving experience was on a working dive in the North Sea. I was diving surface supplied gear and my hose became wrapped up in the platform. I couldn't get it free and the weather was building rapidly. The hot water supply to my suit got disconnected and I couldn't get it hooked back up. I really thought I was going to die! I am working on two books right now for Scuba Diving International, one a radical approach to nitrox diving and another a fresh look at underwater navigation. These books will be quite unique. I'm also working on another book for our company, Hammerhead Press, but it's confidential. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you... * Steve started diving in 1965 and was certified as a diving instructor in 1970. He trained as a commercial diver between 1974 and 1976. He has since worked as a diver in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, before moving to first Diving Systems International then Viking Dry Suits. In 1989 he started his consulting company - Marine Marketing and Consulting. Last year he launched the publishing company Hammerhead Press. * Steve Barsky's books are available from Amazon.com California Lobster Diving See more details Diving in High-Risk Environments, 3rd Edition See more details Small Boat Diving : A Guide to Buying, Outfitting, and Using Small Boats for Diving See more details Dry Suit Diving, 3rd Edition See more details _________________________________________________________________ Diving News From Around the World ================================= This month: a sovereignty battle for underwater volcano, marine conservation and the discovery of a 1500 year old shipwreck. Sicilians Stake Claim on Underwater Volcano Sicilian divers will this week try to plant a flag on an underwater volcano, to prevent any claims of British sovereignty. The Italian National Institute of Geophysics has suggested that the volcano, now 6 metres (20 feet) below the surface, may resurface soon. The last time it appeared was in 1831, when the British navy planted the Union flag and claimed it for Britain. The King of Naples sent a warship to replace the flag, and a French party also landed. Conflict was avoided by the island sinking again. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4090081,00.html Conserving Horseshoe Crabs On the East coast of America, horseshoe crabs are used as bait by commercial fishermen. More interestingly, their blood is used to detect toxin in implantable medical devices. The crabs are not killed for this, but caught, bled and returned to the sea. The numbers of horseshoe crabs, though, are rapidly declining and an annual harvest limit has been imposed. http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=2623 Clinton Protects Sensitive Sea life President Clinton has reauthorized the National Marine Sanctuaries Act for five years. This law protects 13 sites around the country, including Florida's coral reefs, giant kelp forests off California and nursing grounds for Hawaii's humpback whales. http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2000/11/11142000/reu_sealife_40180.asp 1500 Year Old Wreck Discovered An almost perfectly preserved 1500-year old shipwreck has been discovered in the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey. A team led by Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, used diving robots to view the wreck. The ship is about 300 metres (1000 feet) down and is in such good condition as it lies in anaerobic conditions http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/11/02/ancient.shipwreck/index.html _______________________________________________________ Free Amazon.co.uk Voucher ========================= If you have not yet shopped at amazon.co.uk, and would like a free money-off voucher, fill in the form at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/presents2.html ________________________________________________________________ * Copyright SCUBA Travel - 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. 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