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Suunto Summer 2011 Trade-In Offer

Suunto have blessed us all with another great offer, the Summer 2011 Trade-in. The units on offer this year are the Vyper Air, D6i and HelO2 (without transmitter). Each unit will also be provided with a Dive Manager PC interface as well. To qualify you will need to trade in any multilevel decompression dive computer which [...]
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Mares Icon HD Upgrade

After months and months of speculation and rumour Mares have now finally announced the release of the Icon HD Air featuring an all new wireless integration option. All the original features including a full colour LCD screen, intuitive software, digital compass, pc interface, photo and map upload, etc are all still built into the new model. [...]
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Scuba divers bid to sink Ark Royal

Scuba divers from Torbay are bidding to transform the Royal Navy’s former flagship HMS Ark Royal into a diving wreck. Michael Byfield and James Doddrell are leading a bid to turn the Portsmouth-based aircraft carrier into a reef. The group said the move could significantly boost the Devon economy, contributing a sum of £40 million to it. [...]
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First Gujarat coral atlas released

The Gujarat Ecology commission in India has released the first “Coral Atlas”, which includes details about the reefs on the state’s coastline. The atlas, a study report based on thematic maps of coral reefs on the coastline of the state in western India, also provides information about the habitat condition of each of these reefs. [...]
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Project AWARE announce new Text to Donate campaign

Project AWARE, the non profit organization that works in partnership with divers to promote the conservation of marine environments, has just announced a new way of donating to the cause. UK PADI professional in the UK can now help to raise funds via their mobile phones, by texting AWARE to 70500 to donate £5 to the [...]
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Reef resort to host dive festival

Scuba and snorkelling enthusiasts can take part in the first ever dive festival to be held in Australia’s Heron Island resort. Organisers of the week-long event are hoping to make it annual affair that brings together professional and amateur divers, photographers and nature lovers. Heron Island, which is located on the southern Great Barrier Reef, is offering [...]
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Sanctum 3D

From the creator of Titanic and Avator comes the 3D Action-Thriller Sanctum which follows a team of cave divers on a horrendous journey to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. The dive team are forced deep into the caverns when a tropical storms hits them. They have to fight through [...]
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Underwater Racing Tour Hits Florida

A new action-packed underwater sport has seen scuba diving competitors race around a stricken ship in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The Formula H20 event was part of an underwater propulsion vehicle racing league. The Wes Skiles Memorial Shootout was the third event on the racing calendar for competitors, who completed five high-speed laps around the [...]
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Baltic Seabed, Home to the World’s Oldest Champagne

30 bottles of champagne that was thought to date back to before the French Revolution was found by divers on the Baltic seabed. They opened a bottle and found that is was still in good condition. The believed it was made between 1782 and 1788 by Clicquot (non known as Veuve Clicquot.) Because of it’s shape, the [...]
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Scuba diving group opens new HQ

The world’s oldest scuba diving organisation has opened a new headquarters in Florida. The National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI), which has been awarding scuba diving qualifications since 1960, has opened its new base at Riverview, Tampa Bay. Previously, the headquarters of NAUI were based at Broadway in Florida. Marketing director of the organisation, Elizabeth Travis, said scuba [...]
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