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New Zealand Sharkwater Spring Dive Fashion & Accessories Protecting the Sharks Indonesia Ambon Dive & Kayak GLOBAL EDITION New Apr :: May 2007 Number 16 Zealand Science Black Sea Portfolio Jeroen Verhoeff Dive Medicine Vitamins Help Divers PHILIPPINES Rob Stewart’s TheCOVER PHOTO BY WOLFGANG VisayasLEANDER 1 X-RAY MAG : 16 : 2007 Sharkwater silver cinema of dreams www.seacam.com 2 X-RAY MAG : 16 : 2007 DIRECTORY X-RAY MAG is published by AquaScope Underwater Photography Spring Dive Fashions & Accessories Copenhagen, Denmark - www.aquascope.biz www.xray-mag.com For the Well-Dressed Diver... page 54 “LIFESAVER” SCUBADIVER DIVE FLAVORS AIR TANK SHIRT AVAILABLE FROM DIVE TONIGHT AT WWW.DIVINGTOYSFROMDIVETONIGHT.COM PUBLISHER CO- EDITORS (continued) & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Arnold Weisz - News, Features Peter Symes Willy Volk - News, Interviews Caribbean reefshark. Photo by Wolfgang Leander [email protected] Millis Keegan - Opinions, MANAGING EDITOR Brian Keegan - Equipment contents & CREATIVE DIRECTOR Michael Arvedlund - Ecology Gunild Pak Symes Jason Heller - Photography [email protected] Dan Beecham - Videography ASSOCIATE EDITORS Michel Tagliati - Medicine & REPRESENTATIVES: Leigh Cunningham - Tech USA: Millis Keegan Edwin Marcow - Sharks [email protected] Russia: Andrey Bizyukin CORRESPONDENTS [email protected] John Collins - Ireland Jordi Chias - Spain South East Asia Rep & editor: Enrico Cappeletti - Italy Catherine GS Lim, Singapore Tomas Knutsson - Iceland [email protected] Gary Myors - Tasmania Marcelo Mammana - Argentina ADVERTISING Svetlana Murashkina - Russia International sales rep: Amos Nachoum - USA Kevin Brennan (US/Can & UK) Barb Roy - WA, USA [email protected] Michael Portelly, UK International sales rep: Robert Aston - CA, USA Geoff Mellard (Europe) Nonoy Tan - The Philippines [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE International sales rep: Dan Beecham Harvey Page (Red Sea & Africa) [email protected] Scott Bennett Andrey Bizyukin, PhD International sales rep: David F Colvard, MD Arnold Weisz (Business Directory) Jason Heller [email protected] Millis Keegan Wolfgang Leander Catherine GS Lim SENIOR EDITOR Edwin Marcow Michael Symes Cindy Ross [email protected] Barb Roy 27 35 55 65 plus... HE ISAYAS MBON CIENCE LACK EA EDICAL EACTIVE Gunild Symes T V A S : B S M : R EDITORIAL 3 ONLINE EDITOR Michael Symes THE PHILIPPINES INDONESIA PLACE OF MYSTERY OXYGEN SPECIES NEWS 6 Willy Volk Peter Symes BY NONOY TAN BY SCOTT BENNETT BY MICHAEL SYMES BY ANDREY BIZYUKIN, PHD [email protected] DIVE GURUS 50 Nonoy Tan Cedric Verdier EQUIPMENT 47 TECHNICAL MANAGER Jeroen Verhoeff WHALES&DOLPHINS 51 Søren Reinke Willy Volk 68 74 77 99 SQUID & TURTLES 53 [email protected] SPRING DIVE FASHIONS PROFILE: ROB STEWART DIVING & KAYAKING PORTFOLIO: BOOKS & MEDIA 87 Further info see contacts page: & ACCESSORIES SHARKWATER NEW ZEALAND JEROEN VERHOEFF MARKETING MANAGER: www.xray-mag.com BUSINESS DIRECTORY 97 Yann Saint-Yves BY GUNILD SYMES BY WILLY VOLK BY BARB ROY EDITTED BY GUNILD SYMES [email protected] Not yet subscribed to SUBSCRIPTION columns... X-RAY MAG? Sign up now! X-RAY MAG International Edition in English is FREE It’s FREE! QUICK! EASY! To subscribe, go to: www.xray-mag.com 73 80 85 89 94 MERMAID MATTERS: DIVEPSYCH: SHARK TALES: TECH TALK: UW PHOTO & VIDEO: click here... COVER PHOTO BY AN EECHAM Caribbean Reefsharks, by Wolfgang Leander SWIMSUITS FOR DIVING PANIC STUDY BITS & BITES REBREATHER ADVENTURE D B (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) BY CINDY ROSS BY DAVID F COLVARD MD EDITTED BY EDWIN MARCOW BY CEDRIC VERDIER & JASON HELLER 3 X-RAY MAG : 16 : 2007 Amsterdam Barcelona Cape Town Chicago Copenhagen London Moscow Okinawa Oslo Paris Ravenna Reykjavik San Francisco Sharm El Shiekh Warsaw Shark Conservation: guest-editorial Wolfgang Leander Growing from www.oceanicdreams.com Indifference to Awareness Because you can’t stay underwater forever... 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ScubaBoard.com it politely. In a country where corruption com) and klick “Galapagos” to read it. physics, flora, fauna, destinations, is the ultimate place to begin your as saying that sharks needed is a deeply ingrained legacy of Spanish wrecks, technical diving, and then research and to find a host of dive to be protected from humans, colonialism coupled with a remarkable Stop online trade of shark fins imagine this resource is but a click buddies all around the world with a not the other way around. Even lack of understanding for environmental Unfortunately, Ecuador and the away. What would you call it? Well, common goal: to share our under though I thought it was much problems, I felt that there was very little Galapagos are only paradigmatic. The we call it www.ScubaBoard.com water heaven in a safe and friendly hope to reduce, let alone stop the sense- problem is world-wide—just as global atmosphere! See you on the ‘Board more than just a gag, it did not less slaughter of sharks merely to cut off as the shark fin trade is, which is now Join over 75,000 users, including 1200 tonight! really hit me hard. their fins. being promoted on the Internet by such Scuba Instructors, hundreds of manu- In March 2005, I free-dove for the last companies as the Chinese online broker facturers and so many dive experts Of course, I knew of the finning problem, time in a small island of the archipela- Alibaba.com in which Yahoo.com has a in the World’s largest Online Scuba and I must have been aware of the sta- go where I would normally see many 40% stake worth one billion dollars. It was Community and find the answers you tistics. However, statistics are lifeless unless Galapagos sharks. It was my preferred only by accident that I discovered the you are a passionate statistician (which spot to observe and photograph these shark parts trading activities of Alibaba to me seems like a contradiction in magnificent predators. On this last dive, last fall. terms). But it was a most devastating per- I saw none. The sharks were gone, fished The Ocean Realm Society, the Shark X-RAY MAG is distributed six Views and information X-RAY MAG accepts no responsi- sonal experience that turned me into the by the local aleteros, or shark finners, Research Institute, The Sea Shepherd and times per year on the Internet. expressed in articles are those bility for unsolicited materials sent sort of shark conservationist I am now. as I was later told by dive operators. I many other organizations, which I sub- © 2004-2006 X-RAY MAG. All of the individual author and to its office, nor is it liable for loss or While living in Ecuador (1997 - 2003) I was outraged and decided to boycott sequently alerted, immediately took up rights reserved. are not necessarily repre- damage to such materials. could afford the luxury of going to the the Galapagos. From what I hear, the the issue and spread the news. By now, Material in this publication sentative of views held by Galapagos Islands at least twice massacre of the sharks in the the diving communities around the globe may not be reproduced or X-RAY MAG or its affiliates. X-RAY MAG observes a strict a year. When I first dived the “Enchanted Islands”—as the know about Alibaba.com and their transferred electronically in Unsolicited manuscripts, privacy policy. No personal or Galapagos, I was struck by Galapagos are being shameless activities. There will be mount- any form without written per- photographs and illustrations private information will be shared the sheer abundance of sharks: called—still goes on, prob- ing pressure on them and others to stop mission from the copyright should be emailed to: with a third party without the writ- white tipped reef sharks, scal- ably more clandes- fueling the international shark fin trade by owner. [email protected] ten permission of the owner. loped hammerhead sharks, and the tinely as organizations providing both buyers and sellers a con- most elegant and sleek of the requi- such as The Sea venient trading platform. Editorial state- em sharks, the omnipresent Galapagos ment regarding shark. Stop recreational News from To my growing dismay, however, every fishing of sharks NAUI in X-RAY time I went back I noticed that the shark My passion for MAG: population was dwindling—it was the diving with This issue of X-RAY MAG and others includes news direct result of indiscriminate shark finning sharks and press releases from NAUI in sections designated in what is supposed to be a marine sanc- does by the NAUI logo. While the page design is done by tuary where sharks are officially protect- not X-Ray Magazine is a member of X-RAY MAG as an integrated part of the magazine, ed from being fished. What I discovered Diving Equipment & Marketing these news stories are brought to you by NAUI at was not “statistic”; it was the real thing Association: www.dema.org NAUI’s discretion.
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