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17. 7. 2013

Diving Myanmar - Burma´s Mergui Archipelago - World´s Top 20 Scuba Diving Locations

The Mergui Archipelago is an archipelago in far southern Myanmar (Burma). It consists of more than 800 tropical islands, varying in size from very small to hundreds of square kilometres. All islands lying in the Andaman Sea just off the western shore of the Malay Peninsula. The archipelago's…

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11. 7. 2013

Lake Alta Ice Diving - Scuba Diving New Zealand with Steve Traynor

Lake Alta is a glacial lake in the Remarkables Mountains near Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand. At altitude 1800 m (6000 ft) it freezes over in the winter months and it is used by divers who hold an annual ice dive there. One of the leading organizers of the very traditional event on Lake Alta…

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3. 7. 2013

Ice Diving Greenland – Icebergs and Wrecks of Greenland

Arctic diving is one of Greenland's newer and more unusual activities. North of the Arctic Circle there are several easily accessible shipwrecks, which, apart from their fascinating external details and highly-coloured fauna and flora, are easy to get into and explore. You can be amongst the first…

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1. 7. 2013

Easter Island Scuba Diving - Henri and Michel Garcia

Easter Island is the most isolated island in the world due to its solitude in the middle of the Pacific Ocean a very unique undersea fauna and flora grows as a result of the rocky bottom and the coral reefs. Due to its isolation, about 26 percent of the fish that live in the island are endemic; you…

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25. 6. 2013

Diving accidents - silence and utter lack of information

Diving experienced a huge boom in the last ten or fifteen years. Hunreds of thousands of totally inexperienced newcomers go under water annually. Almost every year this wonderful hobby also takes its toll in the form of several serious, usually fatal accidents. The curious thing is, while there are…

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19. 6. 2013

Scuba Diving Chile - Las Tacas – New Diving Location

Coquimbo is a coast city placed 7.4 miles south from La Serena and 287 miles north from Santiago de Chile in Choapa Province, Chile. The Coquimbo region coastline possess many beaches with warm waters ideal for various adventures: kiteboarding, rowing, waterskiing, diving, windsurfing and yachting. …

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10. 6. 2013

Scuba Diving on Koh Kood Island - Thailand’s best kept secret

Koh Kood ( also known as Ko Kut) is the last Island in the Eastern Thai waters and very close to the Cambodian border. It sits next to Koh Chang and Koh Mak and is actually the fourth largest Island in Thailand. Koh Kood has only recently been discovered for its exciting aquatic life. Local dive…

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8. 6. 2013

Blue Belt - Toyota Wreck - Scuba Diving Sudan

The Blue Belt was a general cargo ship, made by Howaldts-werke A. G. of Hamburg in 1950, that sunk on December 2, 1977, after collision with the reef in Sha’ab Suedi, about 75km north of Port Sudan. This can be a valuable scuba diving destination for those who are dedicated to exploration.

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3. 6. 2013

Scuba Diving - Nha Trang (Vietnam)

If by some chance you get lost in these parts of the world, we recommend a visit to the "diving town" of Nha Trang, 400 miles west of Saigon. As a gateway to Vietnam, through Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) you can get to Nha Trang in several ways. Read on a set of recommendations by Peter Kral.

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20. 5. 2013

Video - Gue divers scooter the Salem Express

Norwegian Gue divers, Bjorn Stubne and Truls Erikson, take our Cuda's for a spin on the Salem Express. Whilst on safari with the Red Sea Explorers, Egypt.

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20. 4. 2013

Wreck diving - Truk Lagoon - Micronesia

More than 69 ships were sunk during the Spring of 1944 during "Operation Hailstone" in retailiation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. As a result, these massive cargo ships, battleships and airplanes appear frozen in time and now sport amazing growth and brilliantly-colored hard &…

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18. 4. 2011

33rd year of the PAF Tachov Festival

33rd year of the International Festival of Underwater Photography, Films and Children´s Artwork. 20th - 22nd May 2011 - Community Centre Mže in Tachov.

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10. 6. 2010

Video - Nuno Gomes - World Record Dive 318 m

Nuno Gomes is the current (2008) Deepes dive world record holder, that dive was documentated on video (watch "Beyond Blue" documentary) and here are the extracts from the film (u/w).