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Introducing Abyss Diving Suits

Owner and operator, Gim Gheorghe, knows first-hand how divers feel about their life-support equipment. Before founding Abyss Diving Suits 25 years ago, Gim worked as a commercial diver in Canada and Eastern Europe and had served on the Romanian Navy’s underwater team. Those whose livelihoods depend on reliable, well-crafted gear appreciate good-quality exposure suits.

Travel News
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Fabulous February Savings in the Regaldive Sale

Regaldive, the diving holiday specialist, has unveiled a range of exciting new February Sale Offers. With a great value 10% off diving holiday and liveaboard packages around the world, in addition to some superb dive pack deals and extra savings, Regaldive’s February Sale Offers are available until Friday, 24 February 2017. These 10% savings are on top of existing dive packs and special offers.

Travel News
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Regaldive’s New Hotel and Liveaboards in Thailand

Diving holiday specialists Regaldive have recently expanded their programme in Thailand with a hotel and three liveaboards in Phuket. The hotel and two of the liveaboards are owned by Sea Bees Diving, an award winning, local dive centre that has been operating for over 20 years. The third liveaboard is part of the highly regarded Aggressor Fleet.

Environmental News
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Understanding climate change means reading beyond headlines

Seeing terms like “post-truth” and “alternative facts” gain traction in the news convinces me that politicians, media workers and readers could benefit from a refresher course in how science helps us understand the world. Reporting on science is difficult at the best of times. Trying to communicate complex ideas and distil entire studies into eye-catching headlines and brief stories can open the door to misinformation and limited understanding.

Community News
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Canadian diver who boosted sharks’ image dies in scuba mishap

Canadian diver Rob Stewart’s death in the ocean is a big blow to his family, the environmental movement and the educational impact of his marine filmmaking. Stewart died in a tragic diving accident near Key Largo, Florida on January 31. He was there to start working on his third movie. It was to be called Sharkwater: Extinction, a sequel to his acclaimed first movie known as Sharkwater.

Travel News
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Scuba Tours Worldwide re-brand To Rebrand

Scuba Tours Worldwide were acquired by blue o two, the UK’s largest scuba diving tour operator, back in January 2015. They went on to incorporate the blue o two Red Sea fleet into their portfolio and add MV French Polynesia Master to their ever-popular Exclusive Tours programme. In the Maldives, MY blue Voyager joined their existing and much loved liveaboard, MV Sea Spirit.

Dive Center News
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Red Sail Sports Marks 30 Years of Dive Service in the Cayman Islands

In January, Red Sail Sports customer John Nagy from Jacksonville, Florida completed his 13th dive vacation with Red Sail Sports — he made his first dive with the company 30 years ago, shortly after Red Sail Sports opened its doors for business. Nagy, a first-time visitor to the Cayman Islands, checked into the then-open Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman and boarded Red Sail’s dive boat for an experience that he found hard to leave.

Environmental News
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We need to work less to live better

Since the 1950s, almost everything about work in the developed world has changed dramatically. Rapid technological advances continue to render many jobs obsolete. Globalization has shifted employment to parts of the world with the lowest costs and standards. Most households have gone from one income-earner to at least two. Women have fully integrated into the workforce, albeit often with less-than-equal opportunities, conditions and pay. A lot of our work is unnecessary and often destructive — depleting resources, destroying ecosystems, polluting air, water and soil, and fuelling climate change.