The DeepSea Challenger dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
On March 25 2012, the DeepSea Challenger, piloted by James Cameron, arrived at the deepest point in the Mariana Trench. How deep you ask? How about 35,756 feet (10,898 meters)! He was down there for about 6 hours and of course filmed the whole thing. And since James Cameron was involved...I imagine we’ll be seeing an IMAX movie of the whole experience soon. What I wouldn’t give for an experience like that! Can you imagine that much water on top of you? I get excited when I’m at 100 feet. ...
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Wreck of the ferry M/F" Jan Heweliusz" Poland
Wreck of the ferry M/F "Jan Heweliusz" Loss of the ferry "Jan Heweliusz" "On the night of 14th January 1993, a Polish ferry "Jan Heweliusz" sank in tragic circumstances in the vicinity of the Rugen island, and actually some 15 miles off the cape Arkona. A storm was raging on the Baltic Sea, with the wind blowing at the velocity of 160 km per hour. The 12-step Beaufort scale didn’t provide for wind of such crashing power, otherwise unknown on the Baltic Sea. Despite warnings of strong...
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Great tips to help a fearful person learn to dive
Great tips to help a fearful person learn to dive or water sports for people who are not water people! by Cathy Church Do you know someone who would like to go diving with you but is afraid to? If so, then pass this article along to them after you have read it yourself. In my thirty years of diving I have seen many people conquer their fear and go on to love SCUBA diving. But, I have also seen many instructors and spouses destroy the possibility of a frightened person ever learning to dive. ...
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Dentistry and Diving - Scubadoc’s Diving Medicine
Barodontalgia Because of Boyle’s Law, (as pressure increases, volume decreases and vice versa), diving with air-filled spaces in teeth cause problems because spaces inside teeth cannot decrease in size and increase in size in proportion to the depth under the surface. Because we are already functioning at one ATM of pressure on the surface, a dive to 99 feet would increase the pressure inside the cavity to 4 atm absolute, a pressure of 58.6 lb/sq. in. This increase in pressure would cause pai...
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How Do New Scuba Divers Get Diving Experience?
The key first step for new scuba divers to improve their diving skills in the underwater environment is, Dive a lot. The more you dive, the more experience you get, and the higher your comfort level in the water soars. One major question on almost every newly certified scuba diver’s mind is: How can I dive more to become an experienced diver? Dive clubs provide the perfect source for a new diver who seeks diving experience. There’s always a buddy or two who can get away for the day, and ...
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Lose Weight While Scuba Diving
Every other magazine and website has tips on losing weight. Deciding to ’keep up with The Joneses’ I wanted to write what I’d like to call Lose Weight While Scuba Diving. I think you’ll find my list very helpful to get to that ideal weight: 1. Throw on your wetsuit and jog a few laps around your house. You are sure to sweat out a couple pounds. 2. Eat healthy by only finishing 1/2 of your hot dog or steak and bring the other 1/2 down on your next dive to feed to the fish. ...
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Churn and Burn Dive Centers
Do you know any "Churn and Burn" dive centers? Those that focus primarily on new customers rather than earn the long time business of serious divers. Some dive centers believe they should only market to and focus on new customers, people that don’t currently scuba dive. I suppose they feel their only source of revenue is that initial training and bulk purchase of new gear. They spend 100% of their effort and marketing dollars on attempting to attract new customers. The smart dive centers kn...
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Scuba Marketing 103: List Your Business on Scuba Earth
Greg - 12/29/2011 3:30 PM
Scuba divers love searching for their next possible dive destination. DiveBuddy’s Scuba Earth provides divers with an interactive map to find new dive sites, other scuba divers, events, dive centers and dive clubs. Make sure your business location is listed on Scuba Earth by joining DiveBuddy and specifying your map location in the "Edit Profile" section. That way divers can easily find you when they’re researching a particular area using the original Scuba Earth. Also read my past Scu...
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Breaking through barriers
Eight feet below the surface of the water in the Florida Keys, Matt Johnston became the world’s first ventilator-dependent person to dive in the ocean. With that dive on the Hen and Chickens coral reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Matt realized his dream. But his feat also showed others with physical disabilities that they should not be discouraged from following their own dreams. Matt has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, so the dive was made via a hose connected to a ventila...
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Vocational Rehabilitation Program
Dave Wright visited the Florida Keys to take another scuba instructor’s course before opening a dive shop in Cincinnati. Then his plans literally turned south. He decided to relocate to the Keys where there is year-round diving and sailing and make his living there. On returning to their home in the greater Cincinnati area, Dave and his wife sold everything, including a geothermal and air-conditioning business he owned. Soon, he launched Southern Most Diving http://southernmostdiving.com/ind...
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Lake Huron
Mopar - 12/13/2011 1:11 PM
This is a couple of links to a project that I have had a chance to do some of the diving. Annarbor.com article: http://www.annarbor.com/news/u-m-divers-retrieve-8900-year-old-piece-of-wood-from-lake-huron U-M full release: http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/9-videos/20120-u-m-divers-retrieve-prehistoric-wood-from-lake-huron...
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Career Presentation at Honea-Path High School
On December 8th 2011 Precious Cargo Diving had the fantastic opportunity to share our experiences in the management of a dive shop with selected classes at Belton-Honea Path High School as the result of an invitation from Ms. Tonya Locke, Career Development Facilitator. The opportunity was outstanding as we were able to share with the students how each of the items they are studying in school this month were vital to the success of our SCUBA shop or any successful business. ...
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Former carpenter immerses himself in his new job
College program leads to unique career option A downturn in the construction industry in the late 1980s led Shaun Kerr to new waters, literally, as he now dives to work every day. While laid off after three years of carpentry work, he discovered an underwater commercial diving program at Seneca College. “It’s a good profession for me ... it’s exciting and challenging,” the 41-year-old says, in a telephone inte...
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Heal the Bay Santa Monica Clean-up Dive
HardcoreDiveTeam was busy cleaning up Santa Monica Pier on September 17, 2011, for Heal the Bay since 1985. Scoring on some nice trash!! Quite a bit of plastic bags, a one inch thick piece of painted rebar that was 6 ft long, I didn’t think about it at the time, but it was probably worth some cash, could of been made into a soft steel prybar. It was huge! A WW1 gas mask: http://www.flickr.com/photos/healthebay/6157080080/ and a junk old stainless steel box. One thing we all found was the inter...
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Divers find Northwest Passage discovery artifacts
A musket and other artifacts from HMS Investigator, the ship abandoned in the Canadian Arctic in 1854 during the hunt for Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition, have been recovered by divers. The ship is credited with discovering the Northwest Passage. Shoes, a musket, a copper sheet, and parts of the ship’s rigging were among the items brought up over nine days this July from the wreck discovered last summer in Mercy Bay, off Banks Island in the Northwest Territories. Divers were lucky eno...
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New Braunfels
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/riverban/ Council passes first reading of container ban on New Braunfels’ rivers Might be good to know for some folks...
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Wreck Dives delima
I was reading an interesting article in Scuba Living about Wreck Dives and I wanted to get everyone’s opinion. What do you think? Should a wreck, that has confirmed loss of life, be considered a sacred grave site and left alone or is it OK to take souvenirs? I for one believe it is a grave site and should be treated with respect, but are you not respecting the site and honoring the dead by treasuring the items removed from that site? ...
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