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  The white death
  The white death  
 
(17-06-10)  The Malay island Layang Layang, one of the favourite destinations for divers in the China Sea, is losing its corals alarmingly. We can see the effects of a devastating invasion of a starfish that is out of demographic control... >>
 
 


 
Text and pictures: Jorge Keller / Deep Blue-Vídeo
 
 
 
  The Argentinian "Titanic"
  THE ARGENTINIAN “TITANIC”  
 
(27-05-10) It has the dubious distinction of having sunk twice. This is the Monte Cervantes, a luxury ship to transport passengers that ran aground on rocks in 1930 and which, 15 years later, after a laborious and lengthy process of recovery, finished sinking in the icy waters of the Beagle Channel when it was being tugged to the shipyard. >>
 
Text: Marcelo Pierini
 
 
 
 
  Diving and planes
  DIVING AND PLANES  
 
(21-04-10) Long trips to exotic destinations are more affordable every time, and plane is a main piece on them. So, it is interesting to review the physiological principles that affect us while we dive and the consequences of them in air travels.. >>
 
Text and pictures: Juan Carlos García

 
 
 
 
 
  Making a whale into a killer
  Making a whale into a killer  
 
(01-03-10)  In the wake of the SeaWorld attack, Philip Hoare an expert in marine mammals explains how captivity drives orcas crazy and can turn them deadly. >>
 
Text: J. Lipinski/BetaS

 
 
 
 
 
  Maro
  MARO’S SEABED DIES  
 
(17-02-10)  In the last decade, the surface of eelgrass in the natural setting of Maro at Nerja (Málaga, Spain) has dropped dramatically because of trawlers and flooding. In an article published in sur.es the author echoes the voice of an expert diver in the area, who denounced the disappearance of seagrasses in Maro’s seabed.  >>
 
Text: Eugenio Cabezas-Sur.es
Pictures: Buceo Costa Nerja

 
 
 
  Paul Watson
  “WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER”  
 
(09-02-10)  Interview with Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, who has led the defense of whales to impossible limits. With great means, supported by donations, he faces Japanese whaling fleet doing “direct actions” that have become a real war with international repercussions.  >>
 
Text: M. Okazaki / japantimes
Pictures: Sea Shepherd CS

 
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