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Scuba News ..because we can’t be underwater all the time Archive for the 'Diving' Category « Previous Entries Next Entries » SCUBA News #99 Now Online Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Issue 99 of SCUBA News is now freely available on-line. Featuring the Caribbean Island of Dominica, Mozambique, Taiwan and the pick of the diving news from around the world. Posted in Diving | Comments Off Update: Underwater Photos of the Maldives Monday, August 18th, 2008 More fantastic marine photos of the Maldives are now in the SCUBA Travel Gallery. Posted in Diving | Comments Off Robot Vehicle Surveys Deep Sea Off Pacific Northwest Thursday, August 14th, 2008 The first scientific mission with Sentry, a newly developed robot capable of diving as deep as 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) into the ocean, has been successfully completed by scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Washington (UW). The vehicle surveyed and helped pinpoint several proposed deep-water sites for seafloor instruments that will be deployed in the National Science Foundation's planned Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Posted in Diving | Comments Off Researchers find cancer-inhibiting compound under the sea Monday, August 11th, 2008 University of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers have discovered a marine compound off the coast of Key Largo that inhibits cancer cell growth in laboratory tests, a finding they hope will fuel the development of new drugs to better battle the disease. The UF-patented compound, largazole, is derived from cyanobacteria that grow on coral reefs. Posted in Diving | Comments Off Divers plunder wrecks in the ‘graveyard’ of the Atlantic Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Divers are plundering the wrecks of vessels sunk during the Second World War in an area known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic". The stretch of seabed off North Carolina and Virginia contains up to 90 wrecks, most lying at relatively shallow depths, offering divers and maritime historians unique opportunities for exploration. However, experts have warned that the wrecks are increasingly being disturbed by divers, some of whom are removing items to keep as souvenirs. Weapons and other artefacts have been looted and divers are even said to have removed the skeleton of a German sailor from a sunken U-boat in the area. Posted in Diving | Comments Off Scientists Use Naval Exercises to Learn More About How Marine Mammals React to Sonar Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Using satellite-linked and underwater listening tags to monitor movement and behavior, NOAA and partnering scientists tagged more than thirty individual marine mammals of four different species. They measured how deep-diving marine mammals feed, interact with one another, dive and respond to sounds in their environment in this pioneering pilot project carried out in conjunction with the Navy's Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2008 exercises. Posted in Diving | Comments Off « Previous Entries Next Entries »

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