Scuba News
\Completely revised edition of "Scuba Diving" is now available. A reference book explaining the techniques of diving: bouyancy, diving physiology, dive tables, dive planning, etc.
Includes competition to win a dive light, disabled diving in the Red Sea, Harlequin Ghost Pipefish, diving South Africa, underwater Australia photo gallery plus diving and marine research news from around the world.
This new book covers the full spectrum of conditions and ailments that affect divers. Diagrams highlight key aspects, such as ear barotrauma, while therapeutic decompression tables complement the chapters on acute decompression illness, deep diver rescue and emergency ascents. Written by an experienced diving medical officer who has been a board member of DAN (Divers Alert Network) Southern Africa since 2001.
Palau offers world-class diving with sea walls, sheer drop-offs, caves and an exuberance of marine life. Its Blue Corner Wall dive is currently second in the Top Ten Dives of the World list. SCUBA Travel has therefore added a new page to its dive guide, dedicated to the diving around Palau.
Read about some great diving in India in the new SCUBA Travel section. The best dive sites and recommended diving centres in the Andaman Islands, Lakshadweep Islands and Goa.
Hand-picked diving books: guides to diving around the world, stories of the history and pioneers of diving, books featuring great underwater photography and some just stories about diving.
SCUBA Travel are pleased to release their list of best selling diving books and DVDs of the last quarter. The list has remained remarkably static, with the top 3 books retaining their places. Perennially popular, the Blue Planet makes a re-entry.
"Brilliant...Saw Jenkins rays, Eagle rays, huge trevally...Overall plenty of fish, big and small." Just one of the new comments on the diving around Mauritius in the Indian Ocean at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/africa.html#Mauritius
The first study to determine the global conservation status of 64 species of open ocean (pelagic) sharks and rays reveals that 32 percent are threatened with extinction, primarily due to overfishing, according to the IUCN Shark Specialist Group.
Using a system of underwater hydrophones that can record sounds from hundreds of miles away, a team of scientists has documented the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an area they were thought to be extinct. The discovery is particularly important, researchers say, because it is in an area that may be opened to shipping if the melting of polar ice continues, as expected.
