Puffer Fish Take over Arabian Sea
Puffer Fish Take over Arabian Sea
The study, reported in the latest issue of Current Science, attributes the increasing biomass of puffer fish to the excessive fishing of top predators like the cobia (Rachycentron canadum) and different species [...]
Seal Caught in Fishing Line for 10 days
Seal with fishing line around it’s neck rescued after 10 days
7 March 2013 Last updated at 09:23 ETWildlife conservationists are hoping a seal will survive after freeing it from fishing line in the Firth of Forth. The seal was first [...]
Flash Fire at Pool and SCUBA Area Sports Chalet
Flash Fire at Pool and SCUBA area Sports Chalet
Authorities continue to investigate the cause of an explosion Friday at Sport Chalet in La Canada Flintridge that resulted in two employees being burned. The explosion caused about $10,000 in [...]
Scientists tag 2000 pound Great White Florida
Great White Shark Tagged by Scientists in Florida
Check out the Shark Tracker Website and See where the Sharks are in Real Time
A great white shark measuring 14 feet, 6 inches and weighing 2,000 pounds was tagged and released Sunday off [...]
Navy divers carry out upgrades at Oahe Dam – Capital Journal
They had the water to themselves, and no wonder – no one else goes swimming at Lake Oahe in February.
But it’s all part of the job for a group of Navy divers who visited Pierre this past week – braving frigid underwater temperatures by [...]
Navy IDs Divers Who Died at Aberdeen | Military.com
The Navy has identified two Virginia Beach-based divers who died Tuesday during an underwater operation in Maryland.
Petty Officer 1st Class James Reyher, 28, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Harris, 23, died during a planned dive at an Army [...]
More than 200 divers among 500 volunteers in Windermere lake clean-up
You know it’s cold where she is standing! Surely we can get something going in the warm(er) waters many of us are going to be in over the next couple of months! Let’s start organizing! ~Mary Alice
An underwater clean-up of England’s [...]
4 Reasons SCUBA Divers Die
4 Reasons SCUBA Divers Die
An overweight diver in poor physical condition returns to diving after a hiatus of several years.He pulls his old gear off a shelf in the garage, hops on a dive boat and attempts to dive on a current-swept reef at [...]
Sharks are worth 1 Million Dollars St Marteen
Sharks worth 1 Million Dollars each in St Marteen
Divers also rent cars, stay in hotels, eat at restaurants and drink in bars. If we do not have sharks we will lose our coral reef ecosystem. Sharks keep the reefs clean of unhealthy fish which [...]
Huge discarded fishing net kills Florida
Huge Fishing net that was discarded kills marine life and wraps around reef – Florida
The net, which weighs an estimated 1,000 pounds, is the latest and most spectacular South Florida example of what’s called ghost fishing gear [...]
Catalina Chamber Day
Catalina Chamber Day
Roger Hess, then owner of Charisma Charters, came up with the idea that all the boats should band together for a day of diving and donate all the proceeds to our Chamber. The first event attracted about 200 divers and [...]
Why Rebreathers CCR for Recreational SCUBA Diving
CCR Rebreathers for Recreational Diving
Great Video presentation fro the Rebreather Fourm on Rebreathers. Good info for CCR research
No Fishing Zones Working in California
No Fishing Zones working in California
In the first major study of its kind, scientists have found that populations and sizes of several key species of fish, along with starfish, urchins, crabs and other sea life, have increased more in the [...]
Russian SCUBA Divers find Meteor
Russian SCUBA Divers Find Meteor
The divers used powerful lights and probes to uncover several potential sites where meteorite fragments may have landed. On Thursday, a team from Ekaterinburg will join in the search by conducting a magnetic [...]
Stranded Whales saved by Chile Navy
Stranded Pilot Whales saved by Chile Navy
Rescuers have been trying to save around 50 pilot whales as shown in this Video which beached themselves off Chile. Fishermen spotted the pod of short-finned whales stranded on a beach in southern [...]
Missing SCUBA Diver Found 24 miles away
Missing SCUBA Diver Found 24 miles away from start point
“It appears that he was separated from the dive charter group, at around 08h00, while diving and when he surfaced from the dive he had no sight of the dive charter boat. He drifted [...]
Hyperbaric Chamber has gone to the Dogs
Hyperbaric Chamber has gone to the Dogs
Doctors at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine have recently used an oxygen chamber on dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits and one monkey. Veterinarian and professor Justin Shmalberg [...]
Sea Lion Picture Wins Award
Award Winning Sea Lion Picture
Mom Emerald Magbaleta snapped an iPhone photo of the adorable moment, displayed it on her Instagram page and then submitted it to the social media site web.stagram.com. The photo got a lot of love: It won a first [...]
Divers kill starfish to protect American Samoa reef, prevent massive starfish outbreak
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa – National Park Service divers have killed almost 90 crown-of-thorn starfish in waters off American Samoa to protect the reef.
The park service said Thursday a single alamea starfish may eat more than 100 square [...]
Saudi women scuba divers seek additional designated diving areas in the Red Sea
Although great for diving businesses around the world as more Saudi females choose to travel to be certified – hopefully they have easier access soon to some of the most beautiful diving in the world. ~Mary Alice
An increasing number [...]
Underwater discovery offers glimpse of 1850s trains in New Jersey waters
As a wreck junkie – I now have an addition to my list of ‘must sees’! Enjoy! ~Mary Alice
The emerald-colored waters off Long Branch, N.J., were “gloomy and spooky” as Dan Lieb swam toward the two hulking silhouettes, [...]
