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ADM Issue 28 • 7 Sitting in 110 Feet of Water, the 200-Foot Long Superior Producer Provides an Excellent Recreational Dive Location • CURACAO ABC Islands • Richard Harris Photography • Virgins, Violence & Videotape Yucatan, Mexico • Leigh Bishop’s Shipwreck Photography • Wreck ofof thethe RBJRBJ Florida, USA • NOOTKA SOUND Vancouver Island, BC • DOC DEMILLE or Bust Florida Keys, USA • MOZAMBIQUE Whalesharks, Mantas, & Wildlife Africa Virgins, • Wreck of the USSR GORDYI Gulf of Finland Violence, • Gold Hound Treasure Divers & Florida’s Treasure Coast Videotape • Wreck of the MARQUETTE Lake Superior Customized CCR Systems The only multi-mission, multi-tasking CCR in the world. Features: • Customized electronics and decompression systems • Custom CO2 scrubber assemblies • Custom breathing loop and counterlung systems • Modularized sub systems • Highly suitable for travel • Suitable for Science, commercial, and recreational diving www.customrebreathers.com Ph: 360-330-9018 [email protected] ADM FEATURES Issue 28 9 • Curacao • Depths Unexplored Text and Photography by Curt Bowen 15 • Richard Harris Photography ADM Featured Photographer 21 • Virgins, Violence & Videotape Text by Jeff Toorish Photography by Curt Bowen and Jeff Toorish 31 • Leigh Bishop Shipwreck Photography 37 • Wreck of the RBJ Text and Photography by Mel Clark 43 • Nootka Sound Jewel in the Wilderness Text and Photography by John Rawlings 51 • Doc Demille or Bust Text and Photography by Mel Clark 57 • MOZAMBIQUE Whalesharks, Mantas & Wildlife Text and Photography by Gaby Nenadal 63 • GORDYI Destroyer Destroyed Text and Photography by Sten Stockmann 66 • Manufacturer’s Products 71 • Gold Hound Treasure Divers Text and Photography by Curt Bowen 76 • Wreck of the Marquette Text and Photography by Tamara Thomsen and Keith Meverden Cover Issue 28 Pixnat producer and videographer Nathalie Lasselin documents ancient human remains discovered deep within a Yucatan cenote. Photo by Curt Bowen Publisher’s Notes Publisher............. Curt Bowen Co-Publisher........ Linda Bowen Copy Editor................ Victoria Leigh 2008 is barely out of the starting gate, and is already Chief Staff Writer....... John Rawlings shaping up to be a year full of big plans for the staff Chief Photojournalist Jeff Toorish of ADM. Our calendars are already filled for most of Web Master................ Jakub Rehacek the year with new dive destinations, scuba events, Pre K.......................... Savannah Bowen and places that hold the hope of new discoveries and challenging explorations. ADM Staff Writers & Photographers Mel Clark • Erik Foreman Advanced Diver Magazine continues to be the Richard Harris • Jill Heinerth Tom Isgar • Cass Lawson world’s leading advanced open water to Jim Rozzi • Tamara Thomsen technical dive publication. The response to the new e-magazine has been terrific — Contributing Writers / Photographers ADM E-Zine has taken off with a jackrabbit Thaddius Bedford Leigh Bishop Joseph Dovala start with over 36,000 downloads for the first Brett Hemphill Dr. Thomas Iliffe Brian Kakuk two issues. Wes Skiles Sten Stockmann Dr. Bruce Wienke Editorial Contributors & Assistants With all this action going on, you’d think that Brigitte Achterberg • Olivia Aravecchia • Jon Bojar another new venture would be out of the Greg Bounds • Jack & Karen Bowen • Jo Cribley question. Far from it! Sitting in one place for Rich & Doris Chupak • Elmer Echeverria • Juha Flinkman more than a few minutes is not my style. Chas Francoviglia • Norma Garcia • Tony Gil Creative activities must continue to Raul Granja • Steven Gutierrez • Jussi Kaasinen evolve, and new out-of-the-box ideas Nathalie Lasselin • Harry Lindholm • Valerie Lyttle must be brought forth. 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Diving involves increased ADM Publisher risk of injury or death if not carried out by suitably Curt Bowen qualified divers who have undertaken the proper training via an authorized training agency. ADM Issue 28 • 7 Sitting in 110 feet of water, the 200-foot long Superior Producer provides an excellent recreational dive location. The accidental sinking in 1977 has provided over 30 years for a multitude of soft corals and marine life to make the ship their home. Text and Photography by Curt Bowen ince I was in Aruba conducting a photo shoot, I Caribbean Sea Sports is conveniently located on the decided to take a few days to do the quick 45- beach just outside the Marriott beach resort. This full Sminute flight over to Curacao. As my aircraft dive training facility has all the equipment, staff, and glided in for a landing, I watched from my small window dive vessels for any recreational dive group. But as in as the island quickly approached. Gigantic beach resorts most recreational dive facilities, they are always cautious enclosed by long palms lined the shoreline, small houses when some dive cowboy shows up using different gear, dotted the interior landscape, and colorful city buildings asking to conduct longer, deeper dives than normal, as surrounded a large protected inland bay. But what caught they should be for the sake of safety. my eye more than all these man-made objects was that the light blue water along the shores faded quickly to dark Since this was just a recon trip, I did not bring along blue within hundreds of yards. my rebreather but fell back on the trusty, easy-to-pack, lightweight, armadillo side-mount harness. And yes, God This could mean only one thing to a deep diving freak forbid, I might admit to diving that ancient dive gas like myself: depth and plenty of it just a snorkel from land. called – AIR. Along with depth comes new exploration, and I was here to see just what secrets Curacao might be hiding beyond After introducing myself and going through the the normal recreational limits of open water diving. standard liability sign-your-life-away legal forms, the professional staff showed me around the shop and fill On any good recon trip, you first must contact some station. The shop leaves a stack of aluminum 80 cylin- type of local resource for dive gas, tanks, dive boats, and ders conveniently on the deck for divers to grab for local water knowledge. With a little pre-planning, the unlimited shore dives. Commandeering island tourism board had already hooked me up with a two cylinders, I set up my side-mount well-known local shop called Caribbean Sea Sports, owned harness. And with a newfound dive by Tom Zeck. buddy/model, Shani Shmueli, was off with a camera for a see- what’s-there dive checkout. ADM Issue 28 • 7 Just as I had suspected, within a five-minute swim from shore the coral-covered bottom dropped quickly to about 70 feet, then the wall appeared. Not a vertical wall here, but more of a steep sloping wall covered with large coral heads and colorful fish. Stopping at 200 feet, the wall continued to drop into the darkness - - a perfect location for beginner OC trimix and CCR diver instruction. The next morning, I joined the dive facility on their PRO 42 dive boat, conveniently named Explorador, to dive some local wrecks. The first location was the wreck of the 200-foot Superior Producer. The Superior Pro- ducer sank by accident in 110 feet of water in 1977 immediately after leaving the harbor. Carrying a mixed cargo of liquor, clothing, and luggage, local divers quickly salvaged as much of her cargo as possible. The shipwreck is in surprisingly good condition, and contains a large variety of soft corals, sponges, and reef fishes.
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