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SEPTEMBER 2019 ISSUE 9 WWW.SCUBAH2OMAG.COM 1 Scuba & H2O YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION $20 ADVENTURES MAGAZINE AUSTRALASIA 20 EXPLORING NATURE DOWN UNDER Dive into History with Erik Petkovic 58 AN INTRODUCTION SHANE DORIAN WORLD CHAMPION SURFER DIVES INTO NEW WATCH SERIES WITH TIME CONCEPTS 68 SCUBA & H2O ADVENTURES MAGAZINE DELIVERS REAL NEWS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY & AROUND THE WORLD Scuba H2O 4 C ntents SEPTEMBER 2019 10 DIVE FOR A CURE RAISING MONEY FOR CANCER RESEARCH 12 REMEMBERING BOB MARX THE TREASUREMAN 20 AUSTRALASIA EXPLORING NATURE DOWN UNDER 26 WSA REFLECTS ON 2019 WASHINGTON WATERS EXAMINED 30 DIVERS ALERT NETWORK DIVE ANOTHER DAY 34 COIMBRA U.S. COAST GUARD REMOVES OIL FROM WORLD AUSTRALASIA WAR II WRECK COIMBRA 20 40 VINTAGE SCUBA SCUBA SYSTEM HARDSHELL BCD 44 BASIC SKILLS SHORE DIVING BASICS 46 ALEC TECH TIPS FLEX HOSE OR SWIVEL - WHICH IS BEST? 49 WHAT IS IT? CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS GEAR? 52 COMMERICAL DIVING ADVENTURES HYPOXIA 58 DIVE INTO HISTORY WITH ERIK PETKOVIC AN INTRODUCTION 68 BUSINESS PROFILE: SHANE DORIAN WORLD CLASS SURFER DIVES INTO NEW WATCH SERIES WITH TIME CONCEPTS DIVE INTO HISTORY 58 Scuba H2O 5 SOUND A Short Story - From the Editor BITES This month, your faithful editorial manager had the pleasure of visitng the Marine SCUBAH2OMAG and Science Technology (MaST) Center at Highline College of Redondo Beach in Shout-outs! Des Moines, Washington. Following my interview with Randy Williams and Jim Join the conversatons at: Trask of the Washington Scuba Alliance (WSA), Randy invited my cousin Hannah htps://www.facebook.com/ and I for a visit and of-hours tour of the facility. scubah2omag/ By John Tapley; photos by Hannah Wyat FACEBOOK The MaST Center, according to its website, “fosters a culture of marine stewardship by engaging our community through interactve learning, personal relatons and exploraton” and stands proud as a beacon for WSA operatons in western Washington’s backbone, Puget Sound. Part teaching insttute and public learning center, the facility unveils a swath of informaton on neighboring waters, its many creatures, and the importance Puget Sound plays in our daily lives as Washingtonians. There’s a lot packed within the 2,500 square-foot center. Upon arriving in the foyer, Randy drew our eyes to the remains of sea creatures mini and mighty: a 38- foot gray whale suspended from the ceiling immediately lef us awestruck; skeletal seals, smaller creatures, and pelts adorned the walls. Across the large room, a series of intricately painted interpretatons of the surrounding sea struck us with an appreciaton for the artsts who captured these tableaus and for the many MaST volunteers who made them possible. INSTAGRAM It was a cool late morning with overcast greying the immediate area: the MaST Center’s brightness contrastng against the environment: against Redondo’s long expanse. Afer touring the entrance, Randy directed us to the dock and pump area, where Washington waters are cycled into the facility’s aquarium. We met with aquarist and center supervisor Mat Wilson, who amicably shared details on his longstanding work. Along the way, Hannah and I encountered a box of beetles: instruments used to efciently clean animal fesh and detritus from bones. While the container noted the beetles only feasted on necrotc fesh, we gave them a wide berth; Randy invited us into the aquarium. continued ... About the Cover: Shane Dorian - world-renowned surfer from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Courtesy Time Concepts The contents of SCUBA & H2O Adventure are opinions of FOR THE RECORD: CONTACT: individual writers and do not necessarily refect the views SCUBA & H2O Adventure is Publisher: Selene Muldowney | [email protected] of the publisher, editor or any of its staff. The publishers and published monthly by the Dive Senior Editor: John Tapley | [email protected] contributors assume no responsibility for any mishap claimed News Network Media Group at PO Interns: Andrew Pierzchala to the a result of use of this material. Adventure sports contain Box 1494, Oak Harbor, WA 98277. Reagan Muldowney inherent risks. 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SCUBA & H2O ADVENTURES MAGAZINE DELIVERS REAL NEWS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY & AROUND THE WORLD Scuba H2O 9 Regular SELENE JOHN TAPLEY CAITLYN Contributors MULDOWNEY RUSKELL Caitlyn is Content Writer and Editor for Divers Alert Network in Durham, NC. She is an actve PADI and A BEACH IS NOT ONLY A SWEEP OF SAND, BUT SHELLS OF SEA NAUI Instructor, RAID Rebreather Instructor CREATURES, THE SEA GLASS, THE SEAWEED, THE INCONGRUOUS and graduate of the OBJECTS WASHED UP BY THE OCEAN. HENRY GRUNWALD University of Georgia. GARY ALEC PEIRCE ELIZABETH JAMES BONNIE LEHMAN BABCOCK LAPENTA MCKENNA Gary came to diving later Alec Peirce is recognized Elizabeth Babcock, LCSW I am a recreatonal Destned to a life with than most, and loves to as one of the fnest has been a certfed diver and technical SCUBA adventure, Bonnie get away when he can scuba diving presenters since 2000. She is a psy- Instructor whose primary McKenna took her open — which is not enough! of his generaton. chotherapist and communi- goal is to create divers water dive in 1955 with no Some of the most He holds instructor ty educator who has writen that are safe, skilled, and wetsuit or BCD, a J-valve memorable experiences certfcatons with extensively on topics of competent. I’d rather lose tank, double hose regulator, ever for Gary have been seven diferent scuba interest to anyone seeking business than certfy an and fns that weighed underwater with his training agencies plus to maximize their health unqualifed diver. It is my a ton. She explored the club buddies, turtles and many honorary awards and overall enjoyment of moral and ethical duty to world, with camera in hand, sharks! When not diving from the scuba industry life, though her primary call out unsafe practces, as an internatonal fight or thinking about it, he including the prestgious specialty is the treatment standards, and those atendant. Now retred, she writes about it! “Platnum Pro 5000 of overeatng. She recently who defend or use them. spends her tme working Diver”. published “Why We Over- as a photojournalist and eat and How to Stop,” conservatonist. (available at Amazon.com). JOHN C GENE MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER MARK FINE PETERSON SALVAREZZA WEAVER NORDER An accomplished wreck Michael Salvarezza and Christopher Weaver have Mark has worked as a The author Dr. John Chris- explorer, historian, speaker, been diving the waters the world since 1978. In that diver and dive supervisor topher Fine is a marine instructor, and business tme, they have spent thousands of hours underwater for more than 30 years. biologist, Master Scuba owner, Gene is a man and have accumulated a large and varied library of He works in locatons Instructor and Instructor who wears many hats, and photographic images. They have presented their work as diverse as Alaska’s Trainer. He is an expert in who has made signifcant in many mult-media slide presentatons, and have Bering Sea, the Missouri maritme afairs and has strides in surfacing the appeared previously at Beneath the Sea, the Boston River and Gulf of Mexico. authored 26 published deep history of New Jersey Sea Rovers Underwater Clinic, Ohio ScubaFest and Our Mark currently resides in books. His large format shipwrecks. Gene has over World Underwater. Southern California. cofee table book: TREA- 40 years of experience in SURES OF THE SPANISH these felds, and we look Eco-Photo Explorers (EPE) is a New York based or- MAIN contains informaton forward to sharing his ganizaton and was formed in 1994 to help promote and photographs of Span- stories and expertse in interest in protectng the environment through knowl- ish colonial shipwrecks. future editons. edge and awareness through the use of underwater photography. SCUBA & H2O ADVENTURES MAGAZINE DELIVERS REAL NEWS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY & AROUND THE WORLD Scuba H2O 34 The violence of war has taken an immeasurable toll on human civilizaton and has lef deep scars on both the people that inhabit this planet and the Earth itself. Conficts have results in death, destructon and disrupton the world over. Many of these wounds remain, in the form of painful memories, eliminated lives and damage to the environment. In World War II, catastrophic batles took place in Europe, Asia, the Pacifc Ocean, the Atlantc Ocean, Africa and beyond. When the hostlites ceased, over 60 million people had died and the world needed to slowly rebuild. But lying beneath the waves of the world’s oceans were untold numbers of ships, sunk in batles carrying cargo and people to their watery graves. Many of these remain, bearing silent witness to the horrors of U.S. COAST GUARD REMOVES OIL FROM WORLD WAR II WRECK COIMBRA MICHAEL SALVAREZZA & CHRISTOPHER P. WEAVER Red Hake are ofen found on the deeper shipwrecks like the Coimbra 35 war and the terrible acts of violence that we infict on one and other. On January 15, 1942, the supply ship Coimbra set of from Bayonne, New Jersey and was heading to Halifax, Nova Scota when it was torpedoed by the German U-Boat U-123.