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SCUBA News 80
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SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011)
Issue 80 - December 2006
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk
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Welcome to this year's last issue of SCUBA News. If you
celebrate Christmas I hope you have a good one. I also
hope you enjoy receiving SCUBA News - if you have any
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Contents:
- What's new at SCUBA Travel?
- Your Letters
- Creature of the Month: Squat Lobster, Galathea strigosa
- Diving News from Around the World
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What's New at SCUBA Travel?
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Diving Books
At last we've updated our books page. See our
recommendations for sea life, underwater photography,
dive destinations and beach and boat reading at
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/books.html
Let us know what you think of the new selection
and layout.
Diving in Spain
Find more dives and dive centres in Tenerife at
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/europe.html#Spain
Diving in France
Staying with Europe, we've also updated the France
section with dive operator recomendations and dive
site descriptions.
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/france/
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Your Letters
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I just wanted to say “Thank You”. My Splendid Toadfish
picture that was posted on your website was selected
for a Marine Biology textbook that was published this
year. They offered to pay me, so I asked for a copy of
the textbook, which was delivered to me yesterday. It
was heart-warming to see MY picture published in the book!
Thanks!
Anita Floyd
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Cape Verde
Travelling to Sal in July, advanced PADI divers, not
very experienced, looking for best dive centre and dives?
Craig Fellows
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From the Diving Board...
Field Assistant Needed
Field assistant needed to help with research on cleaner
fish. Location: Hoga Island, SE Sulawesi, Indonesia
Dates: March - June 2007 (12 weeks). Daily work will
involve carrying out observations on cleaner fish by
diving and snorkelling, some fish catching. Flights
and living expenses will be covered. You need at
least 20 dives and good tropical reef fish ID skills
would help.
Jenny Oates
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1008
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Diving Torches
Do good diving head torches exist? Any recommendations?
Looking for a something as an xmas gift - any ideas as
a hands free?
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=860
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Italy
Any tips for dive sites in Italy? I'll be in the south,
just south of Pescara but am willing to travel a bit.
Any help would be much appreciated.
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=858
If you can help with replies to any of these, please
register and post at the Diving Board
(http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/forum/)
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Creature of the Month: Squat Lobster, Galathea strigosa
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Galathea strigosa likes to hide in
crevices, sometimes clinging upside
down to the ceiling. You see it most
commonly at night when it is out and
about. It lives between 3 and 600 m
and is an attractive red colour
with bright blue lines.
The animal folds its tail under its body resulting in a
crab-like appearance. When necessary the tail is used as
a paddle for a quick get away. Its claws are covered
in brown hairy spines.
The young of this species is a different colour, with a
mottled white carapace.
Galathea strigosa lives from Scandinavia to Spain,
Canaries, Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
Further Reading:
Great British Marine Animals by Paul Naylor
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/britishmarine.html
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Diving News From Around the World
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Nitric Oxide Reduces Bubble Formation in Divers
Prevention of bubble formation is a central goal
in standard decompression procedures. According to
research published in the FASEB Journal, nitric oxide
reduces bubble formation following decompression after
dives of different duration and to different depths.
http://www.news.scubatravel.co.uk/
Breath-Hold Divers Get Decompression Sickness Too
Normally associated with SCUBA diving,
decompression sickness (DCS) is also be a risk
for repetitive breath-hold diving. This was suggested
as early as 1965 but is still not widely acknowledged.
A new study published in the Research in Sports Medicine
journal compared four groups of breath-hold divers and
found some 90 cases in which DCS occurred after
repetitive breath-hold dives.
http://tinyurl.com/y6qsqy
Suunto D9 And D6 Diving Instruments Recalled
Suunto has identified a software bug in the D9 and
D6 diving instruments. The software bug may cause the
D9 and D6 to incorrectly track dive time on rare
occasions, potentially causing a risk to the diver.
Suunto is requesting that the faulty products be
returned for a software update.
http://www.suuntoservice.com/safetynotice/diving/
Marine Census Discovers Many New Species
A host of record-breaking discoveries and revelations
that stretch the extreme frontiers of marine knowledge
were reported by the just-released Census of Marine
Life 2006. They include life adapted to around 407 oC
fluids spewing from a seafloor vent (the hottest ever
discovered), a mighty microbe 1 cm in diameter,
mysterious 1.8 kg (4 lb) lobsters off the Madagascar
coast and a US school of fish the size of
Manhattan Island.
http://tinyurl.com/y8qh8s
Your ideas needed to save 945 whales
Greenpeace want you to help them put an end to whaling
in the Southern Ocean. Go to their new web site where
you can get inspired by other people's ideas, rate them,
improve them and add your own.
http://whales.greenpeace.org/global
Humpbacks have humanlike brain cells
Humpback whales have a type of brain cell seen only in
humans, the great apes and other cetaceans such as
dolphins, researchers have reported. This might mean
such whales are more intelligent than they have been
given credit for.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15920224/
Human Activity Seriously Damaging Coral Reef
The Barrier Reef shared by Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
and Mexico, the second longest in the world, is being
severely damaged by human activities. More than
80 percent of the sediment and 50 percent of the
pollutants entering the coastal waters of the reef
originate from human activities in nearby mountainous
Honduras, according to the World Resources Institute (WRI).
http://www.news.scubatravel.co.uk/
Italy and France using illegal driftnets, claims Oceana
The international marine conservation organisation,
Oceana, claims it has evidence documenting 71 Italian and
37 French illegal driftnetters. Furthermore it says it
has evidence of fraud regarding European subsidies and
illegal marketing of tuna and swordfish, as well as
incidental bycatch of cetaceans, sea turtles and sharks.
http://www.fishupdate.com/
Crucial Marine Food Chain Link Withers
The critical base of the ocean food web is shrinking as
the world's seas warm, new NASA satellite data show.
The discovery has scientists worried about how much food
will grow in the future for the world's marine life.
Small changes that happen in the bottom of food web can
have dramatic changes to certain species at higher
spots on the food chain
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11800
Mideast May Save Dead Sea With Red Sea
Officials from Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority
have agreed to proceed with plans to draw water from
the Red Sea. Four donor countries - France, Japan, the
United States and the Netherlands - are financing the
$15 million study. Geological experts warned that the
drop in the Dead Sea water level would increase the
earthquake possibilities. They also warn the Dead Sea
will disappear in 50 years if current trends persist.
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11817
Florida Expands Marine Reserve to Largest in North America
The largest marine reserve in North America is emerging
on Florida's southwest coast. The new Research Natural
Area will be added to the existing Tortugas Ecological
Reserve, where fishing has been prohibited since 2001.
Combined, the two areas will prohibit fishing in
261 square miles.
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11658
California to Impose Sweeping Conservation Limits on Ocean Fishing
Despite intense opposition from many fishermen,
California wildlife regulators are creating the nation's
most extensive network of "marine protected areas" --
stretches of ocean where fishing will be banned or
severely restricted.
http://www.californian.com/
Pristine dive sites in North Sulawesi spared
The Indonesian Ministry of Environment recently announced
that a gold mine operation, which was threatening to dump
millions of tons of waste into the sea in North Sulawesi,
will not be allowed to do so. British-registered
"Archipelago Holdings" gold mine (operating locally as "MSM"),
threatened to dump up to 1,500,000 tons of ground up
mining waste into the sea, between the Bunaken National
Park and the Lembeh Strait.
http://tinyurl.com/y29byx
2nd International Underwater Film Festival In Greece
After the success of the First Underwater Films Festival
hosted in Milos Island last year, the organizers have
decided to enrich the program with speeches of very well
known personalities of the Diving world.
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/forum/
New Release: Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Guide to diving Australia's world-famous Great Barrier
Reef; includes a wide selection of dive and snorkel sites.
Written for divers of all abilities, with full colour
photography. Also lists diving services and resorts.
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/
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