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Scuba News ..because we can’t be underwater all the time Archive for September, 2007 « Previous Entries Arctic Thaw May be at “Tipping Point” Saturday, September 29th, 2007 A record melt of Arctic summer sea ice this month may be a sign that global warming is reaching a critical trigger point that could accelerate the northern thaw, scientists say. The Arctic summer sea ice shrank by more than 20 percent below the previous 2005 record low in mid-September to 4.13 million sq km (1.6 million sq miles), according to a 30-year satellite record. It has now frozen out to 4.2 million sq km. Posted in Diving | Comments Off Update: Diving in Iceland Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Fantastic dive site. Endless visibility in a canyon between the American and European continents. Diving in Iceland is definitely expensive, but so is Iceland. For me personally it was absolutely worth it. The best dives I had so far. Posted in Diving | Comments Off Micronesian Presidents Sign Reef Check Pledge Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 The presidents of Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia have signed a declaration of reef rights and pledged to protect coral reefs. Posted in Diving | Comments Off Latest issue of SCUBA News now on-line Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) #88 is now freely available on-line. For the travel insurance option that donates to your charity choice, diving in Spain, diving in Barbados and all the diving and marine life news and research from around the world. Posted in Diving | Comments Off Blue Tang is Creature of the Month Monday, September 24th, 2007 Blue Tangs are often found roaming the reef, in search of their favourite food - algae. They are surgeonfish which may appear either singly or in large schools, which can contain hundreds of individuals. The Blue Tang, and other surgeonfish, are important on a shallow coral reef because they help keep the algae in check. Without them the algae would grow so fast that coral larvae settling and trying to make a start on the reef would soon be overgrown. Posted in Diving | Comments Off Fish will vanish from British waters in 20 years, says author Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 Ninety per cent of fish in the waters around Britain will have disappeared within 20 years unless they are given protection, according to a leading marine researcher. Professor Callum Roberts claims that "the endgame" was being played out with the remaining fish in the seas and that they are doomed without radical measures to save them. The number of fish in seas and oceans around the world was a fraction of what it had been 50 years ago, and numbers were still plummeting. Posted in Diving | Comments Off « Previous Entries

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