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Diving News
The following news articles may be of interest.
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Fish certification scheme shows its true colours
Several landmark studies have, over the past 20 years, highlighted the problem of mislabelled fish. One-third of fish on sale in the US is not the species it is sold as, and one-quarter of cod and haddock sold in Ireland is neither of these. Now an e | Teenage drivers: why whales smash into boats
Not just humans | Update: Diving Thailand
More on the dive sites and operators of Thailand is now on the SCUBA Travel site at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/thailand/. | Fishing skews sex ratios in fish
Population crashes in many species of reef fish may be linked to an excess of males brought about by fishing - and imposing quotas won't remedy the situation. In many species, particularly those where individuals can change their sex, each fish produ | New 'walking' fishes discovered in Gulf oil-spill zone
Two new fish species - with pancake-flat bodies, wiggling lures on their faces, and elbowed fins for "walking" on the seafloor - have been discovered in the path of spewing Gulf of Mexico oil. | Latest issue of SCUBA News now On-line
Includes competition to win a dive light, disabled diving in the Red Sea, Harlequin Ghost Pipefish, diving South Africa, underwater Australia photo gallery plus diving and marine research news from around the world. | Submarine robots learn teamwork
Studying the deep ocean floor is cumbersome, expensive and dangerous. The majority of exploration efforts have to employ an autonomous unmanned vehicle (AUV), which works without control cables. But many AUVs are specialised, they cannot travel far a | Super goby helps salvage ocean dead zone
A resilient fish is thriving in an inhospitable, jellyfish-infested region off Africa's south-west coast. And crucially it is helping to keep the local ecosystem going, and to preserve an important fishery. | Rising sea drives Panama islanders to mainland
Rising seas from global warming, coming after years of coral reef destruction, are forcing thousands of indigenous Panamanians to leave their ancestral homes on low-lying Caribbean islands. | Antidepressants in sea may damage food chain
Second-hand Prozac in waste water could be sending shrimps' swimming patterns haywire, making them easy targets for predators. 'Crustaceans are crucial to the food chain and if shrimps' natural behaviour is being changed because of antidepressant lev |
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