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 Underwater Housing for Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS / IXUS 80 IS Digital Camera
Posted by: Cindy on Oct 01, 2008 AD - 10:14 AM
Fantasea Line Releases the FSD-1100 Underwater Housing for Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS / IXUS 80 IS Digital Camera. New Housing Provides Access to All Camera Controls and Functions.
Fantasea Line announces the release of a new housing specifically designed for the Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS / IXUS 80 IS digital camera. The FSD-1100 housing, depth rated to 60 meters/200 feet, is fully functional providing photographers with access to all camera functions. Fantasea's new compact housing design and improved construction ensures easy handling and accurate access to camera functions through the critical placement of push-button controls. The Fantasea FSD-1100 housing has a double O-ring seal on all controls, anti-glare hood over LCD screen, removable flash diffuser and a 46mm threaded lens port...
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 Protection Sought for Atlantic Wolffish
Posted by: Cindy on Oct 01, 2008 AD - 10:13 AM
It may not be the prettiest fish in the ocean, but environmentalists see it as a potential poster fish for marine education. The Conservation Law Foundation will petition federal officials to add the US population of wolffish, also known as ocean catfish, to the endangered species list...
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 Threats to Coral Diversity Lead to Inventory of Reefs
Posted by: Cindy on Oct 01, 2008 AD - 10:13 AM
Multiple threats to coral biodiversity lend urgency to scientific inventory of life on Australia's famous reefs
Hundreds of new kinds of animals have surprised international researchers who have been systematically exploring waters off two islands on the Great Barrier Reef and a reef off northwestern Australia, waters long familiar to divers...
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Fishy Future Written in the Genes
Posted by: Cindy on Oct 01, 2008 AD - 10:13 AM
The roadmap to the future of the gorgeously-decorated fish which throng Australia’s coral reefs and help earn the nation $5 billion a year from tourism may well be written in their genes.
Of particular importance may be to protect ‘pioneer’ fish populations which are able to re-colonise regions of reef devastated by global warming and other impacts or settle new areas as the corals move south, says Dr Line Bay of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University (JCU) and Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)...
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 Diving the Depths of Two New Books
Posted by: Cindy on Sep 29, 2008 AD - 12:13 PM
Two new books, heavy on diving hit the shelves shortly. Diving in to Darkness (A True Story of Death and Survival) by Philip Finch, release date 30th September and Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohle by Brad Matsen, release date October...
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Bush Wants to Expand Marine Protections in Pacific
Posted by: Cindy on Sep 29, 2008 AD - 12:11 PM
Bush has asked the secretaries of the Interior, Commerce and Defense to identify additional areas in the Pacific Ocean that could be eligible for conservation. His comments came during a speech at the newly completed Sant Ocean Hall, which opened on Saturday at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. During his speech he also made an announcement that the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, off the California coast, will be expanded by 585 square nautical miles and will include the Davidson Seamount, an underwater mountain...
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Underwater Dreamland of Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Posted by: Cindy on Sep 29, 2008 AD - 12:11 PM
One of the world's little known diving destinations teems with surreal marine life, sharks that walk on their fins and sea horses smaller than a fingernail, amongst the untouched coral reefs of Raja Ampat archipelago's, a remote group of islands in eastern Indonesia which was recently declared as a protected marine park.
Rich in marine diversity: 1,186 species of fish, 600 species of mollusks and about 550 species of hard coral — 75 per cent of the world's total, scientists have described it as a "species factory". A new species of shark was discovered her in 2006, making headlines globally as it walks on it's fins. Just one of the reasons that the official park status is drawing divers worldwide to the area. Serious photographers and divers are making the long journey to visit the area after it received it's official status in August of last year...
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Scientists Call for World's Largest Marine Park in Coral Sea
Posted by: Cindy on Sep 29, 2008 AD - 12:10 PM
Australia's most eminent tropical marine scientists today strongly backed calls by the Pew Environment Group and partners to secure world-class, no-take marine reserves at key locations around the world. They called for the Coral Sea, an immense area to the east of tropical Australia, to be made the world's largest marine protected area...
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Shark Fights Threaten World's Biggest Aquarium, Dubai
Posted by: Cindy on Sep 29, 2008 AD - 12:09 PM
Dubai's new Burj Dubai Mall, due to open 30th October, is home to the world's biggest aquarium, holding 10 million litres and the world's biggest school of sharks. Over four hundred sharks and rays are among the 33,000 specimens of 85 species on display in the exotic collection of marine life. Some might have considered it predictable that concentrating that many sharks in a contained area would not be without it's problems. More then ten percent of the sharks housed in the aquarium have been killed in attacks by sand tiger sharks...
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Malysian Eco Resort Stops Serving Shark Fin Soup
Posted by: Cindy on Sep 29, 2008 AD - 12:08 PM
The first tourism establishment in the state of Kota Kinabau, Malysia, and possibly in the nation, has removed shark fin soup from it's menu's. The Alu Alu Seafood Restaurant at the Gayana Eco Resort hosted a talk by Marine Ecology Research Centre (MERC), to create awareness of the biodiversity in Sabah, where Dr Mabel Manjaji Matsumoto, Internationally renowned marine scientist and zoologist, gave a talk on "Sharks and rays of Sabah", stating that some 100 million sharks a year are killed for their fins...
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