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SCUBA News 72~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) Issue 72 - April 2006 http://www.scubatravel.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We hope you enjoy SCUBA News, but should you wish to cancel your subscription you can do so at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/news.html Contents: - What's new at SCUBA Travel? - Free Draw Winner - Your Letters - Bookshelf: Interview with Joyce Huber - Did You Know? Coral Reef Facts - Creature of the Month: Tube Sponge, Acervochalina sp - Diving News from Around the World __________________________________________________________ What's New at SCUBA Travel? =========================== Diving the Philippines A UNESCO World Heritage site, Tubbataha Reef Marine Park is in the middle of the Sulu Sea and covers 33,200 ha. Find more about the diving there, and browse our extended list of the country's diving operators, at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/philippines/ ADVERT:__________________________________________________ Dave's Straw Hat Inn, Boracay Island, Philippines. 5 star quality accommodations at budget prices. You can't beat Boracay for diving; a magnificent national marine preserve and one of the most popular diving areas in Southeast Asia. Visit http://www.davesstrawhatinn.com/ or e-mail info@davesstrawhatinn.com __________________________________________________:ADVERT Expanded Dictionary of Diving Terms We've updated our dictionary of diving and marine biology terms. From ABLJ to Zooxanthellae. http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/glossary.html Diving Centres in Sardinia, Italy More dive operators are now listed in our Sardinia section at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/italy/sardop.html __________________________________________________________ Free Draw Winner: On-Line Coral Reef Course =========================================== We're pleased to announce that Susan Haney has won the draw for the on-line Coral Reef Architecture and Organisms course, from Beautiful Oceans. This course is specially designed for divers. There are no lectures to attend and one of its main aims is to be fun. You are given access to Beautiful Oceans web site to view marine videos of fish behaviour and work through course materials at your own pace. For more details of the course see our review at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/scubanews70.html#course or visit http://www.beautifuloceans.com/ __________________________________________________________ Your Letters ============ Citizen Dive Watch Good Morning (at least here in Asia!), Have any SCUBA News readers had any experiences, good or bad, with Citizen Watch Company's Aqualand dive computer watches? I'm particularly interested in their Nitrox watch but, as my concern is one of easy of interpreting so small a display, ability to accurately discern what it's telling you quickly, and how well it functions in switching modes, comments on any of their computer dive watches would serve as a good model. Thanks Alan Gurevich algee_73@yahoo.com -- And from the Diving Board Malta I hope to finish my Padi Open water diver course with my 4 qualifying dives in Malta/Gozo this year. Can you recommend any diving shool which would help me finish my certificate. we are looking to stay a week to 10 days in the beginning of July. Furthermore any locations you think are a MUST ? Thanks Barb http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=212 __________________________________________________________ Bookshelf: Interview with Joyce Huber ===================================== Joyce Huber is the author of a travel guide for divers titled Best Dives of the Caribbean. This was first published in 1988, but an updated version is out in May. This first diving book spawned another on the sea - Best Dives' Snorkeling Adventures. This came about when she put her email address in an edition of the diving book, and was inundated with questions. Not from divers but from snorkellers. After many nights staying up until 3 am answering the e-mails, Huber decided the snorkellers should have their own book. Her publisher, Michael Hunter, didn't see a market in snorkelling, but she had worked in print for so many years that it seemed simple enough for her to put a snorkelling guide together for them. It is now in its third edition. Her scuba diving guide has been in need of an upate for a few years - but she put it on hold as her co-author/dive buddy/husband was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2002. He died in 2003. She was so devastated she did nothing till 2005. His name as co-author is on the new edition of the guide as he contributed much time to it. The first dive book was the result of 20 years of dive travel and note taking. Back in the 1970's, Joyce and her husband Jon put on slide shows of underwater sites for their local dive club. Friends asked about places to stay, best time of year, where to eat etc. It grew into a book from there. Joyce signed a contract with Dodd Mead publishing, but the publishing company folded. Putnam Publishing bought out the contract. They dropped "Best Dives". Since she was a new writer, she hired a crusty editor - Eliot Tozer - to make the book more saleable. He got hooked on the subject and took off for Bermuda for a resort course. He nearly drowned when his mustache let water in his mask. Simon and Schuster's editor then wanted the book, but she was over-ruled as no one had ever published a dive-travel guide and they didn't want to be the first. Meanwhile, Michael Hunter started a travel book company. He moved to south Florida and lived on the beach where he saw lots of divers going in and out of the ocean so he figured there must be a market. He published the first Best Dives book in 1988 and it was an instant success. "We meant it to be for new divers" says Joyce "but everyone loved it." You might imagine that writers on diving have been a major influence on Joyce Huber, but oddly enough she sites instead people from Flying Magaine and Aviation International News. She worked on aviation magazines as an art director for many years and in corporate and general aviation doing promotional work. She is a licensed seaplane pilot. Huber grew up in northeastern New Jersey, an area that is a suburb of New York City. She spent summers in south Jersey swimming and beach-combing and watching seaplanes. After studying art at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League she worked as everything from a fashion designer to a mural painter. She went back to school for writing specifically to do the dive books when she was 35 years old. She's now 58 now. Joyce Huber's books are available from Amazon, with up to 35% off. Best Dives in the Caribbean amazon.com amazon.co.uk Best Dives' Snorkeling Adventures amazon.com amazon.co.uk __________________________________________________________ Did You Know? Coral Reef Facts ============================== The plural of fish is "fishes" when referring to a group that consists of more than one species, but "fish" when referring to a group that consists of just one species. -- From the Beautiful Oceans on-line course: Coral Reef Architecture and Organisms. To read our review of the course see http://www.news.scubatravel.co.uk/ __________________________________________________________ Creature of the Month: Tube Sponge, Acervochalina sp ===================================================== Subscribe To SCUBA NewsOur newsletter, SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011), is absolutely free. It is a monthly publication, delivered by e-mail. To receive your copy fill in your details below. We will never pass your e-mail address to any third parties, or send you unsolicited e-mail. You will receive an e-mail confirming your subscription. If you don't receive this you have probably entered your e-mail address incorrectly - revisit this page and re-subscribe. 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