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Lionfish Workshop
[singlepic id=216 w=430 h=350 float=center] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MEDIA CONTACT: REEF: 305-852-0030 Lionfish Workshops to be held in Southeast Florida First Workshop on November 14th (MIAMI, October 31, 2011) – The Miami-Dade County Cooperative Sea Grant Extension Program in partnership with the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) will host a series of lionfish workshops open to the public for the Southeast Florida area. These workshops cover the history of the invasion, lionfish biology/ ecology/ impacts, how to safely collect and handle lionfish, lionfish venomology and first aid for stings, and recommended techniques for filleting lionfish. The first workshop of the series will be held Monday, November 14th, from 6:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, in the Cosculluela Hall, located at 500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL. Belen … Read entire article »
Filed under: Events, Fish, Lionfish, Reefs, Reference, Report
Making It Count – October 2011
Putting It To Work: REEF Advanced Assessment Team Member Co-Authors Publication on Barracuda By Christy Pattengill-Semmens, Ph.D., Director of Science REEF Advanced Assessment Team Member, Dave Grenda, recently co-authored a paper documenting behavioral observations of young Great Barracuda occurring on live bottom sub-tropical reefs primarily at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Georgia. For the past three years Dave assisted University of Connecticut researcher, Dr. Peter Auster, in studying behavioral interactions of piscivores and their prey. During REEF surveys on these cruises, Dave and the other researchers documented young-of-year (YOY) Great Barracuda (those individuals that had very recently settled to the reef, and were between 2-3 inches in length) hunting YOY Tomtate and Silverside that were taking refuge under ledges. Groups of YOY Barracuda would attack, capture, and consume … Read entire article »
EII CO Carbon Monoxide Analyzer
A number of incidents involving carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in sport diving prompted us to design a CO analyser specific for the sport diving industry. Introducing the new EII CO Benefits of the EII CO: Benefits of the EII CO: It is designed for sport divers, and allows for accurate checking for CO contamination of their own gas prior to diving. Being portable the analyser can be easily transported with other kit. Carbon monoxide – the problem: A small concentration of CO can affect the body, and symptoms can include headache, fatigue, confusion and dizziness. Prolonged exposure could lead to unconsciousness, brain damage or even death. A number of incidents of CO poisoning in sport divers have been reported around the world. In August 2010, an Australian diver was reported to have suffered CO poisoning. He was flown … Read entire article »
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Capture the World Underwater Video Challenge Announced
Open to all skill levels in the single category – a five minute edited piece – Capture the World has more than $21,000 in prizes including free dive vacations aboard any Aggressor & Dancer Fleet yachts and Gates ‘bulletproof’ housings. Further, if the 1st place entry was acquired aboard an Aggressor/Dancer Fleet charter, the prize increases from one to two free dive vacations. Supplementary equipment from Gates (Ports, Lights and accessories) are added to the winning prize if it was acquired with a Gates housing. The winning entry will also be showcased at the 2012 San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition. Held each year Qualcomm Hall – a new state-of-the-art venue – SDUFEX celebrates 13 years as a prestigious international event for underwater videographers and a high profile setting for Capture the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Events, Featured, Promotions, Reference, Videography
Hollis Gear acquires Recreational Rebreather design from VR Technology
At DEMA 2011 in Orlando Florida, Hollis Gear will unveil range of new products including a “game changer” in the world of Rebreather technology. “New divers are looking for innovative products that are allowing easier, safer and more enjoyable dives” according to Nick Hollis, President of Hollis Gear. Hollis Gear and VR Technology have teamed up to launch the world’s most revolutionary piece of diving equipment since the BC. The Explorer sport rebreather: The Explorer is based on a patented design by Kevin Gurr from VR Technology. The unit is neither a fully closed circuit Rebreather nor a pure semi-closed system, but an intelligent hybrid that utilizes the best of both worlds. It’s compact, lightweight and extremely easy to use. The Explorer is unique in using a single gas; … Read entire article »
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Archeologists believe shipwreck found off Japan belongs to Kublai Khan’s 13th-century “lost fleet”
By Laura Rozen | The Envoy – 23 hrs ago Marine archeologists say that the ancient wreckage of a ship discovered in the seabed off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, belongs to the ancient “lost fleet” of ships deployed by China’s 13th century Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, CNN reports. Explorers found the 20-meter-long shipwreck some 25 meters off the coast of Nagasaki using ultra-sound equipment, buried about a meter deep in the sandy seabed. Archeologists believe the ship dates back to 1281, and was part of a 4,400-vessel fleet that China’s Mongol rulers deployed in a thwarted attempt to invade Japan. The discovery of the ship’s well preserved and mostly intact 12-meter-long keel “could go a long way to helping researchers identify all the characteristics of the 20-meter warship,” CNN reported, citing the head of … Read entire article »
Oriskany diver’s body found
A 53-year-old scuba diver who went missing over the weekend has been found. A search crew found the man’s body Tuesday evening. His name has not been released. A dive boat captain reported the diver missing about 11:30 a.m. Saturday after he failed to surface from a solo dive to the Oriskany, a sunken warship. … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard ends search for missing diver
Published : Monday, 24 Oct 2011, 6:08 PM CDT Joe Salvatore MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Coast Guard officials have ended their search efforts for a 53-year-old male diver who’s been missing since Saturday. This comes after two long days and several eyes and radar on the sea and in the air. “We look for the exceptions in the water. I know what a bird looks like, I know what a turtle looks like, a signaling light, a mirror … Those are the exceptions that I’m looking for – anything that can catch my eye. If they start moving, you might see that and say that’s definitely a person,” said Commander David Saunders of the U.S. Coast Guard air unit at Mobile Regional Airport. Saunders’ Coast Guard unit received a call on Saturday about noon … Read entire article »
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Sunken treasure: Croce & crew uncover Drake shipwrecks missing for 400-plus years
BY WILLIAM BENDER Philadelphia Daily News benderw@phillynews.com 215-854-5255 IF JIMMY HOFFA were a pirate, Pat Croce would have found his body by now. What you might not know about Croce, the hard-charging former 76ers president, physical therapist, TV commentator, motivational speaker, writer and entrepreneur, is that he’s also a hard-core “pirate aficionado.” And he just discovered Sir Francis Drake’s burnt shipwrecks off the coast of Panama – a monumental breakthrough in underwater archaeology that solves a 400-year-old mystery. “Explorers have been trying to do this stuff forever, and here I am, a homeboy from Philadelphia in the Caribbean and we score!” Croce told the Daily News last night. “It’s pretty wild.” Leave it to a Philly guy to channel Vince Fumo’s WGSD attitude (remember the “We get s— done” shirts the senator’s aides used to wear?) and … Read entire article »
Coast Guard suspends search for missing diver in Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard searched for missing diver Oct 24, 2011 8:04 AM by KATC Staff The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a missing 53-year-old male diver at approximately 7 p.m., Sunday. Coast Guard crews searched more than 44 hours, covering approximately 1,394 square miles, in an effort to locate a missing diver. The Coast Guard initiated search efforts, Saturday, after receiving a report that he had not resurfaced following a dive at the site of the sunken USS Oriskany. Coast Guard crews from Air Station New Orleans, Aviation Training Center Mobile, Cutter Seahawk and Station Pensacola worked in coordination with members from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Escambia Search and Rescue during the search. A local dive charter also searched with 10 volunteer divers and two divers from Escambia County … Read entire article »
Coast Guard searches for missing diver
Coast Guard searches for missing diver Updated: Saturday, 22 Oct 2011, 4:48 PM CDT Published : Saturday, 22 Oct 2011, 4:35 PM CDT Brandon McFarland PENSACOLA, Fl ( WALA) – The Coast Guard is searching for a missing scuba diver off the coast of Pensacola. FOX10 has been told the search started Saturday afternoon at the artificial reef created by the USS Oriskany. The Oriskany was towed to Pensacola in December 2004 and was sunk with controlled charges in order to make an artificial reef. The Coast Guard is using a HC 144 search and rescue aircraft, a 41 foot small boat with crew, two dive boats and the Escambia County diving team to search for the diver. FOX10 News is monitoring the search and will update you here on fox10tv.com when new information is … Read entire article »
Resilience Webinar: Resilience Assessments and Management Decision-Making
Call Date & Time: Thursday, October 27th 20113:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time Register Here To join the Resilience Practitioners Network, email us at resilience@tnc.org For more information about The Nature Conservancy’s Reef Resilience Program visit www.reefresilience.org This Webinar is brought to you through the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program. Distributed by the Resilience Practitioners Network Reef Resilience Webinar: Using Resilience Assessments to Inform Management Decision-Making Operationalizing the powerful and popular concept of resilience has proven difficult for reef managers. Many are unsure as to how to best streamline building resilience into their daily activities, as well as how to identify the high resilience sites in which to invest limited resources. Recently, colleagues from TNC, WCS, GBRMPA, NOAA and the IUCN have collaborated to build upon the coral reef … Read entire article »
Filed under: Artificial Reefs, Events, Reefs, Training
Shark Conservation Sites
Afri Oceans Bite Back C.O.A.R.E – Shark Safe Isla Guadalupe Fund Monterey Bay Aquarium Oceana Europe Sharks Oceana Sharks Oceanic Defense Pew Trusts Sharks PRETOMA S.A Shark Conservancy Save Our Seas Sharks Shark Alliance Shark Free Marinas Initiative Shark Legacy Project Honduras Shark Life Shark Protect Shark Specialist Group White Shark Trust Wildlife Conservation Society Wildlife Direct Kenya WWF Sharks … Read entire article »
Filed under: Conservation, Featured, Manta Rays, Reference, Report, Sharks, Whaleshark
Shark Research Sites
Bull Shark Tagging Program Canadian Shark Research Lab CICIMAR Isla Guadalupe ECOCEAN Fox Shark Research Foundation GEERG CA Global Shark Assesment Gulf of Mexico Whale Sharks Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme Mauricio Hoyos Guadalupe Island Monterey Bay White Sharks Mote Marine Lab Pacific Shark Research Center PRBO Shark Research Scottish Shark Tagging Program Shark Observation Network Thresher Shark Project Thresher Shark Project … Read entire article »
Filed under: Convention, Featured, Manta Rays, Report, Sharks