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Dive the very best of Komodo National Park in style this July with two special cruises aboard the Voyager, part of Tauch Terminal Bali’s Liveaboard Service. Read more…
Scubapro has introduced its latest front-adjustable BCD, the T-Black, which is the top of the 2006 T-line. Outfitted with advanced design and engineered with sophisticated technology, the T-Black is suited for all types of diving.
This cutting-edge product features Scubapro’s innovative new AirFlex Technology System with a high capacity bladder that provides ultra-high buoyancy and lift capacity (up to 22 kg for a medium-size BCD) while remaining compact and streamline. Read more…
The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission has just concluded with mixed results. Under the auspices of the IWC, an international moratorium on commercial whaling has been in place since 1986. Many people are aware that a few nations, including Japan, Norway and Iceland, have continued to hunt whales. While much of the debates centres on these nations, particularly Japan, less well known is that continued hunting of whales takes place in many other nations as well, including the United States, where next year’s IWC meeting will be held, Russia, Greenland, Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia and Canada. Read more…
100 sea turtles found slaughtered by poachers, who obviously didn’t realise that 2006 is the International Year of the Turtle for this part of the world. Read more…
Celebrities in Malaysia dived into a tank with sharks at the Aquaria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur to celebrate TV3’s 22nd anniversary and to raise funds for charity. Read more…
Owner of Wetpixel.com and good friend of FiNS Magazine, Eric Cheng has just returned from an exploratory trip to get photos of oceanic white tip sharks. Take a look at his personal website for some close encounters with these elegant predators of the open ocean. Read more…
After two defeats at the IWC, pro-whaling countries score a historic victory. Anti-whaling nations cry foul. Read more…
The resort manager at Loloata Dive Resort in PNG emailed us with a couple of pictures and an interesting description of nudibranch behaviour. For several days, divers at Loloata have seen a large 25-cm Dendrodoris tuberculosa at the Lion Island dive site. Read more…
President Bush has established the world’s largest marine reserve. Read more…
A clear and succinct summary of the underlying forces driving Japan’s continued insistence on whaling. Hint — it’s not for food or science. Read more…
