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Earlier today Joan Forsberg, 'WDHOF New Member Selection Committee Chair', announced the six new Members that will constitute the Class of 2015.
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The underwater world is elusive. In a statement of stunning over-simplification, its inaccessible reaches are a great source of both mystery and inspiration.
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Helicopters operating over water may experience emergencies, which require an immediate ditching. Ditching is a deliberately executed landing on water with the intent of abandoning the aircraft successfully.
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Contact lenses can be displaced, or even lost, if a diver has to remove a mask underwater or hand it up to someone on the dive boat or RIB in order to get back on board after a dive. Masks with corrective lenses can be lost this way.
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The pool sits within the complex of the four-star Hotel Terme Millepini in Abano-Montegrotto Terme, Padua, Italy, where it is fed by the same unique thermal water that also feeds the resort’s swimming pools and spas.
Read moreThe four week online course – called ‘Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds: Maritime Archaeology’ - starts today and is open to everyone.
Read moreIn the classic version of the extreme game competitors do not use any breathing apparatus, but instead go to the surface for air every 30 seconds or so.
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Peter Kubicka (organiser of International Techmeeting and inventor of the Kubi Dryglove system) stated, "it is extremely useful to be able to review talks a number of times.
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I have always wanted to explore this area and was thrilled even more when they told me of the strange coral-type of life living in the lake.
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For more than 70 years, phosphate mines were exploited close to the Wallonian city of Mons, in Brussels, Belgium. The phosphate was used, among others, in the sugar industry and to create fertilizer.
Read moreThe mission's goal would be to capture an asteroid and put it into orbit near the moon.
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Jump back to the summer of 1996 and British Cave Diver Mike Thomas presents me with a copy of aquaCORPS magazine, (and I still have this issue in my office today). It was a defining moment in my diving career.
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By this point in history, nobody had yet taken the responsibility of determining the validity of oceanography as a science.
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Conventionally, the size of a package deal would remain fixed for the duration of the contract.
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