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The AAUS Calls For Abstracts

5 years 5 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

This year the AAUS has joined forces with the CAUS to hold their diving conference in Vancouver, Canada.

This is a great opportunity for students to present. Jessica Keller

Epidemic reveals importance of sea stars to kelp forests

6 years 3 months ago By Annie Won

Together with sea otters, sea stars play essential roles in the kelp forests' defence against sea urchins.

Young salmon may leap out of the water to get rid of sea lice

6 years 3 months ago By Annie Won

Why do young salmon leap out of the water, even when there are no obstacles in their way?

Titanic diving tours delayed until 2019

6 years 4 months ago By Scott Bennett

Deep-pocketed tourists waiting to explore the 20th century’s most famous maritime wreck will have to wait a little longer. American submersible company OceanGate has pushed back diving expeditions to the Titanic wreck site to 2019.

New artificial reefs under way in British Columbia

6 years 5 months ago By Main Minion

The ARSBC, which has sunk more ships and aircraft than any other non-profit group in the world to create marine habitat, has worked and consulted with Catalyst Paper for the sinking of the first vessel.

Diving Coastal British Columbia

7 years 6 months ago By Barb Roy

British Columbia (BC), located just above the US state of Washington, on the northwestern coast of North America, provides all of this and more, along with countless topside activities like fishing, skiing, hiking and great wildlife viewing.

Underwater Grafitti: A Matter of Life and Death

7 years 7 months ago By Main Minion

Doug Pemberton, Vice President ARSBC, writes

Endangered humpbacks thriving off British Columbia

8 years 4 months ago By Scott Bennett

Once thought to be near-extinct along the B.C. coast, humpback whales now appear to be thriving in the Salish Sea.

British Columbia's Newest Wreck Celebrates First Year

8 years 7 months ago By My Minion

According to Jan Breckman, co-owner of Sea Dragon Charters out of Horseshoe Bay, business continues to be strong a year later: “Yes, it looks like another great year is coming up!

British Columbia's Sunshine Coast

8 years 8 months ago By My Minion

The lower Sunshine Coast is located between Langdale and Earl’s Cove, accessed via a car ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale (40 min sailing). The town of Sechelt is a 30-minute drive north where divers can explore Sechelt Inlet.

Shearwater Research, Lynn Partridge, Rosemary E Lunn, X-Ray Mag

Shearwater Research Moves Offices

8 years 9 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

Shearwater has just moved to a new location, effective 15 February 2016.

British Columbia's Wreck Trek

9 years 1 month ago By Barb Roy

I couldn’t help but notice the beauty of nature all around. Even through a light veil of surface fog, dark evergreens towered atop rocky shorelines of nearby islands, now bathed in the soft hues of dawn.

Orcas massage themselves in shallow waters

9 years 1 month ago By Annie Won

They exhibited no signs of having been beached. Instead, they swam around and frolicked amongst themselves.

Pacific Northwest: Sockeye Salmon

9 years 6 months ago By Main Minion

— Sockeye Salmon “vignette” from Beneath Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest by David Hall

Graduate student defends thesis under water

9 years 7 months ago By Main Minion

Irvine used a mask with communications gear to enable the members of his thesis committee to ask him questions from a nearby pier via teleconference.

Annapolis finally sunk

9 years 8 months ago By Barb Roy

The ship was purchased from the federal government of Canada through Crown Assets Distribution in 2008 with the intent of making this the first artificial reef in the Greater Vancouver area.

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