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Hawaii New Britain Ordinskaya Cave Dive Systems Ukraine Delta Children's Club Dive Fashion Extravaganza! Nordic Diving Norway NORDKAPP TRONDHEIM WRECKS LOFOTEN KRISTIANSAND GLOBAL EDITION April :: May 2006 American Escape Number 10 Hawaii MAUI LANAI MOLOKAI Papua New Guinea New Britain Russia’s Longest Profile Ordinskaya Dive Systems Cave Portfolio Ukraine Delta Children’s Club COVER PHOTO BY STEIN JOHNSEN 1 X-RAY MAG : 9 : 2006 First page: Home Next page: → Last page: End Navigation, use keyboard Previous page: ← Exit: Esc DIRECTORY X-RAY MAG is published by AquaScope Underwater Photography Dive Fashion Extravaganza! Copenhagen, Denmark - www.aquascope.biz www.xray-mag.com Aprés-Dive Design for the Stylin’ Diver... page 65 MERMAID T-SHIRT DESIGN AVAILABLE FROM WWW.SEVENTENTHS.CO.UK PUBLISHER CO- EDITORS & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Andrey Bizyukin Peter Symes Anglerfish, Lofoten, Norway. Photo by Stein Johnsen - Caving, Equipment, Medicine [email protected] Michael Arvedlund - Ecology MANAGING EDITOR Dan Beecham - Photography contents & CREATIVE DIRECTOR Michel Tagliati - Videography, Gunild Pak Symes Rebreathers, Medicine [email protected] Leigh Cunningham ADVERTISING - Technical Diving Americas & United Kingdom: Edwin Marcow Kevin Brennan - Sharks, Adventures [email protected] Michael Portelly Europe & Africa: Catherine GS Lim Harvey Page, [email protected] REGULAR WRITERS International sales manager: Robert Aston - CA, USA Arnold Weisz Bill Becher - CA, USA [email protected] John Collins - Ireland South East Asia Rep: Amos Nachoum - CA, USA Catherine GS Lim, Singapore Nonoy Tan - The Philippines [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Internet Advertising: Nils Aukan Deb Fugitt, USA [email protected] Dan Beecham Andrey Bizyukin, PhD SENIOR EDITOR Leigh Cunningham Michael Symes Enrico Capeletti [email protected] Jason Heller TECHNICAL MANAGER Stein Johnsen Søren Reinke Catherine GS Lim [email protected] Michael Aw Rosemary ‘Roz’ Lunn CORRESPONDENTS Enrico Cappeletti - Italy Edwin Marcow 25 30 35 41 45 plus... 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X-RAY MAG? Sign up now! SUBSCRIPTION It’s FREE! QUICK! EASY! X-RAY MAG International Edition in English is FREE. 51 57 72 76 78 click here... To subscribe, go to: www.xray-mag.com SHARK TALES: TECHNICAL MATTERS: MANUFACTURER: PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTOGRAPHY: EWS OMPETITIONS COVER PHOTO BITS & BITES DOUBLE STANDARDS DIVER SYSTEMS USING HMI LIGHTS N & C Wall of Sea Anemone, Lofoten, Norway by Stein Johnsen EDITTED BY PETER SYMES BY LEIGH CUNNINGHAM BY ANDREY BIZYUKIN, PHD BY MICHAEL AW BY J. HELLER, D. BEECHAM 2 X-RAY MAG : 10 : 2006 Amsterdam Barcelona Cape Town Chicago Copenhagen London Moscow Okinawa Oslo Paris Ravenna Reykjavik San Francisco Sharm El Shiekh Warsaw Time Magazine’s cover, published the same week as we publish X RAY MAG issue #10. Be very worried about glo- bal warming, it says. Click on the magazine cover to link to that issue of editorial Time Magazine Therapy! ������� Finally—global warming and col- both physically and mentally, allow In fact, I highly recommend the lat- lapsing ecosystems have started to you to be an explorer of your own, ter. When I did some scuba instruc- ����� make big headlines in mainstream have you fully imbedded in another tion a while back, I used to take ���������������� media. Just look at this week’s edi- realm without mind-altering drugs my students into the shallows and tion of Time Magazine for example. and come face to face with his- just sit them there for a while and �������������� tory through archeological remains. have them watch the life come Well, I am glad. Hopefully, the Diving has it all, and most of us can out of hiding. Invariably, I would ��� message will now, finally, sink in get involved in it at some level. get this initial look of bewilderment ������������ around the world. And hopefully, ����������� that means I can soon change I don’t know about you, but diving my agenda and go back to writ- also helps me preserve my sanity ing about issues related more spe- and frame of reference in the oth- cifically to diving and the wonders erwise up-tight and stressful reality of Mother Nature. A while ago, I of the modern corporate world in referred to what Paul Watson of Sea which I find myself residing. I can Shepherd said about being an envi- be as tense as a drumskin before a ronmentalist in our times—it involved dive, but during the dive, I always what he called the ‘Cassandra let go. At some point, I have this big Principle’—you tend to end up ‘sigh’ where I let go of all my stress- being the constant dooms day es, and I come out of the water with preacher if you’re an environmen- a goofy grin, much more relaxed talist nowadays. and altered with a different per- spective on all of life’s burdens. It is Enough. Let us focus once more pure therapy. Never fails—not even upon all the wonders of the blue the time when I had a major equip- realm and the magnificent experi- ment failure. ences diving can give us. Diving is so much better for you than golf, And it doesn’t really matter whether racing bikes or collecting stamps. it is a challenging dive with twin Why? Because what other activ- tanks, or the trusty ol’ rebreather, ����������������������� ity can, in one package, provide or a deep wreck dive, or I’m just you with awesome adventures, crawling about in the shallow water give you astonishing encounters looking at what’s hiding in the sea- ��������� with alien creatures, challenge you grass. Founder of psychotherapy, Sigmund Freud Photo by Max Halberstadt, ca. 1921 U.S. Library of Congress 3 X-RAY MAG : 10 : 2006 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED editorial from the students—like, what sort. Surprise! Lie still and you will but notice that every time some am I up to, and can we please observe the animals breathe, president goes scuba diving, the get on with the show? But it lasts feed, mate and hunt. And per- protection of the marine environ- only for a short while, once I start haps then, you will start under- ment in that country tends to get pointing out all the small critters standing what it is all about. significantly better—including that would otherwise go unno- enforcement by armed forces— ticed if the students just finned Diving is what can teach us all as we have seen in Mexico, for by like it was their commute to the value of protecting what example. work—which, it is not. Why is it is out there—how the ocean is that most divers think that all the the basis of our existence—and There is still a long way to go, but exiting stuff is around the next why what gives us pleasure and getting more people to dive will corner, and that we better get enrichment in the process is inevitably help create the nec- over there quickly—the sooner, worthwhile taking care of. Dive essary basis of awareness and the better? travel and wildlife encounters understanding that might ulti- Seal the Deal are big business, but who says mately save our planet for future Most fascinating stuff in nature, that you have to break the piggy generations. At AsiaEV EDiveRYON ExpoE IS 2006 and particularly, in the ocean, bank to go overseas on some is rather small. So, get down on exotic trip? Unless you are living Go out and get wet—and get HEADING TO ADEX your belly, relax and start using in the middle of a desert, there your buddies to dive as well. your eyes. Watch and you will are usually local options for get- start noticing a set of eyes over ting your head wet. But before you go, please sign TO GET THE BEST there, and that leaf to your left the petition below to save the is not a really a leaf, but a well If only more of the world’s lead- sea turtles on Bali as this month’s camouflaged critter of some ers would go diving. I can’t help good deed. Thanks. ■ DIVE DEALS IN ASIA Please support SOS-SeaTurtles Sign the Petition online, click here ☼ Click here to send an email with a “Letter of pro- test” to the Governor of Bali, with copies to other important officials Link to SOS Sea Turtle’s main webpage ☼ KURT AMSLER / SOS SEATURTLES X-RAY MAG is distributed Views and information X-RAY MAG accepts no ADEX 2006 will showcase the greatest range of suppliers in Dive Equipment & Accessories six times per year on the expressed in articles are responsibility for unsolicited Photography & Videography and Training Agencies along with resorts from exotic dive Internet.
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