BLUE Needs You!
Volunteer positions now open for the August 24-29, 2010 BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit The inaugural BLUE Ocean Film Festival http://www.blueoceanfilmf estival.org/ debuted last year in Savannah, Georgia with a splash, introducing the Oscar-winning...

Immersed Senses lets scuba diver breathe and move freely underwater
Improving the limitations of current scuba diving system, designer Adam Wendel has come up with a futuristic device named the “Immersed Senses” that changes the way the diver sees, hears, and breathes underwater, allowing them to become a part of their surrounding...

Top Wreck Diving Destinations
People that are into scuba diving and like an adventure, may want to check out wreck diving. Diving around old shipwrecks can be an interesting look back into history. Shipwrecks provide an artificial reef, it's surprising to discover the many different species of...

Rebreathers
A rebreather is a self-contained breathing set that supplies the diver with the breathing gas and partially or completely reuses the exhaled air (absorbs the carbon dioxide and adds the oxygen or gas mixture from the cylinder). It enables a more efficient use of gas...

Diving Signals
Diving Signals are a form of sign system used by scuba divers to communicate when underwater.Some diving equipment such as full face diving masks and diving helmets include voice communication equipment but most divers in recreational diving do not possess such...

BP oil disaster reaches Dry Tortugas, Florida Keys
KEY WEST, Florida — Scientists have identified a 20-mile oil slick as far south and east as the Dry Tortugas, about half way between Florida and Cuba, even as the U.S. government is trying to gain more control of BP funds to pay for claims and damages resulting from...

Selachimorpha
Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago, before the time of the dinosaurs. Since that time, sharks have diversified into...

A new aircraft wreck found in the South of France
In the French Riviera, a wreck is lying for several decades. An aircraft, whose debris was discovered a few days ago by divers archaeologists of the AREVPAM (www.arevpam.org), an association working for the development and preservation of Mediterranean heritage on...