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Download X-Ray Magazine (Pdf) North America Newfoundland Egypt Yolanda Wreck GLOBAL EDITION August - September Ireland 2005 Number #6 Connemara Indonesia Raja Ampat Liveaboard Discovery Profile Glowing Sylvia Earle Jellyfish Portfolio Alex Mustard 1COVERX-RAY PHOTO MAG BY : 6DEB : 200 FUGITT5 DIRECTORY X-RAY MAG is published by AquaScope Underwater Photography Copenhagen, Denmark - www.aquascope.biz www.xray-mag.com PUBLISHER CO- EDITORS Schools of anchovies and silversides. Raja Ampat, Indonesia & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Andrey Bizyukin - Caving, Peter Symes Equipment, Medicine [email protected] Michael Arvedlund - Ecology contents MANAGING EDITOR Dan Beecham - Photography & ART DIRECTOR Michel Tagliati - Videography, Gunild Pak Symes Rebreathers, Medicine [email protected] Leigh Cunningham ADVERTISING - Technical Diving The Americas + Asia-Pacific: Edwin Marcow Claude Jewell, USA - Sharks, Adventures International sales manager [email protected] REGULAR WRITERS Europe + Africa: John Collins - Ireland Michael Bremmer, UK Nonoy Tan - The Philippines [email protected] Amos Nachoum - CA, USA South East Asia: Robert Aston - CA, USA Catherine GS Lim, Singapore Bill Becher - CA, USA [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Internet-advertising: Deb Fugitt, USA Mark Andrews [email protected] Michael Arvelund, PhD Michael Aw SENIOR EDITOR Andrey Byzuikin, PhD Michael Symes [email protected] Dan Beecham Leigh Cunningham TECHNICAL MANAGER Lanna Cheng, PhD Søren Reinke Sylvia Earle, PhD [email protected] Deb Fugitt DEB FUGITT CORRESPONDENTS Jerome Hingrat John Collins - Ireland Edwin Marcow Yann Saint-Yves - France Svetlana Murashkina, PhD 13 19 28 43 50 plus... Jordi Chias - Spain Alex Mustard, PhD REPORT: CELEBRATE NEWFOUNDLAND RAJA AMPAT LIVEABOARD MASTERS OF NAVIGATION YOLANDA WRECK EDITORIAL 3 Enrico Cappeletti - Italy Debbie & Rick Stanley THE SEA FESTIVAL 2005 DISCOVER THE CHARM INDONESIA CORAL REEF FISH LARVAE WHERE DID SHE GO? Gary Myors - Tasmania NEWS 5 Gunild Pak Symes BY MICHAEL AW BY ANDREY BIZYUKIN, PHD BY DEB FUGITT BY MICHAEL ARVELUND, PHD BY MARK ANDREWS Marcelo Mammana - Argentina EQUIPMENT 44 Michael Symes Svetlana Murashkina - Russia Peter Symes SHARK TALES 74 Tomas Knutsson - Iceland BOOKS 76 Jeff Dudas - CA, USA Benjamin Victor, PhD 55 63 65 78 CLASSIFIED 87 Barb Roy - WA, USA Ingo Vollmer MARINE INSECTS GLOWING JELLYFISH DIVING REBREATHERS IRELAND’S CONNEMARA WALKING ON WATER NEW DISCOVERY WHAT IS IT LIKE? DIVING THE LOUGHS PORTFOLIO 89 Further info on the Contacts page of our website: www.xray-mag.com BY MICHAEL SYMES BY MICHAEL SYMES BY PETER SYMES BY JEROME HINGRAT Dr Alex Mustard Poetry in Motion SUBSCRIPTION X-RAY MAG International Edition in English is FREE. columns... To subscribe or donate funds, go to: www.xray-mag.com 46 61 70 74 81 COVER PHOTO MANUFACTURER: CRESSI-SUB TECHNICAL MATTERS: DIGITAL UWPHOTOGRAPHY: SHARK TALES: PROFILE: HER DEEPNESS Two different species of fusiliers at Mios Kon BY ANDREY BIZYUKIN, PHD & TABLES & COMPUTERS CAMERAS & HOUSINGS REPAYING THE DEBT DR SYLVIA EARLE Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo by Deb Fugitt SVETLANA MURASHKINA, PHD BY LEIGH CUNNINGHAM BY DAN BEECHAM BY EDWIN MARCOW BY PETER SYMES 2 X-RAY MAG : 6 : 2005 Amsterdam Barcelona Cape Town Chicago Copenhagen London Moscow Okinawa Oslo Paris Ravenna Reykjavik San Francisco Sharm El Shiekh Warsaw editorial I love tuna Tunaholics embrace Ah, summer! I don’t know about the rest of you, but after a long dark and damp winter at our 55º41’north lati- tude, summer is like a feast. Exams are over, projects concluded and contracts signed. We all want to head Nicoise. For out into the countryside, the sooner the uniniti- the better, to be with our families and ated, it is a tuna you enjoy the long days and romantic salad with green lettuce, hard boiled can find, white nights. It is also the time for “sum- eggs, olives, feta cheese and a lot of and it could probably save society a mer foods”, lighter courses based on other good stuff—very tasty and very helluva lot of problems with cardio-vas- the fresh produce from the kitchen healthy like other tuna dishes are. cular disease if we all ate more tuna gardens—a much welcomed change It is also an almost perfect food. It is instead of beef. Great stuff, so is there of menu from all the old stale imported inexpensive, easy to prepare and the a problem here, Officer? Eat more of it, stuff we get in the winter. source of many important nutrients. right? One of my favourite meals is Salade Tuna is high in protein and low in fat, meaning that you can Wrong. Yes, there is a problem. snack on a can of tuna Tuna is being hunted and fished to throughout the day with- extinction. And one of the root causes out having to worry about is our little innocent daily routine of adding excess pounds. It is picking up yet another can of tuna off low in sodium but contains the shelf in the supermarket. the essential omega-3 oils We are emptying the oceans and plus lots of iron and taurine, the populations of big species are col- which promotes decom- lapsing at an alarming rate. Ninety per- position of cholesterol in cent of the big fish are now gone. At the liver. It is also a good this very moment, fleets of fishing vessels source of Vitamin B12, are still out there combing the ocean phosphorus, niacin, sele- with huge trawlers for the remains of a nium and what not. steadily dwindling resource just to sat- Tuna is one of the tasti- isfy my taste for this fine fish. est, most nutritious meals So the sad conclusion, it seems, is Adrian’s gourmet kitchen www.adriansgourmetkitchen.com 3 X-RAY MAG : 6 : 2005 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED Chargrilled Tuna with Chilli Oil: The tuna is marinated in lemon juice, fresh thyme and olive oil, then given a fierce editorial brief searing in a cast iron ridged griddle pan. This lends some great flavour to the outside, that I will have to be weaned leaving the inside just cooked from my culinary addictions. No —exactly as tuna should be. more sushi on Saturday nights It’s then served on a bed either. Tunaholics Anonymous, here of rocket with oven-dried I come. cherry tomatoes and driz- History seems to repeat itself. When zled with a mild chilli I was a kid, cod was a regular course oil dressing. at the dinner table. Cod was cheap and plentiful in those days. Not any more. Not that I really miss eating cod all that a steadily faster growing population. much—every other mouthful was so full Until now, improvements in technology of small bones that my palate felt like a have, fortunately, enabled food produc- cient way of utilising our food calories. pin cushion afterwards, but that is beside tion to keep up with the growth in global But we all know that this not going to the point. population. Sure, people in the third happen. Cod was an important species for world are still starving and malnourished, Ecology is about economy too, both everyday consumption and of signifi- but that is a distribution issue. Overall, in a literal sense and in regard to how cant economic importance. Now, it is there is enough food to go around. the dynamics work. Our ecosystems, and an expensive luxury and a rare sight on However, as the Millennium Assessment consequently our food production, are dives. Cod stocks collapsed with dire in all practical senses ultimately based consequences for both economies and But what about specicide? on photosynthesis wherein solar energy ecosystems in some countries, and the Putting a whole species out of is used to build biomass, which are then population won’t just bounce back passed in a pyramid-like structure with because we stopped fishing them. existence is, more or less it seems, fish at the apex. And there are, obvi- Meanwhile, something else took their just considered a casualty, however ously, limits to how much this system can place in the ecosystem. produce in a sustainable way. We seem so eager to put war crimi- regrettable, of the economic compe- Modern open seas aquaculture, nals on trial for genocide, but what tition between nations who can’t or where tuna and other important species about specicide? Putting a whole spe- are cultivated, could perhaps hold the cies out of existence is, more or less it won’t restrict and effectively answer and alleviate the pressure on seems, just considered a casualty, how- police their fisheries. natural populations. Aquaculture is, how- ever regrettable, of the economic com- ever, fraught with its own difficulties—it petition between nations who can’t or is tricky and, financially, a high risk and won’t restrict and effectively police their clearly stated, the global ecological sys- often quite polluting, but the technology fisheries. Nobody is held responsible. We tem upon which everything else we rely has come a long way recently. even use tuna for pet food. on rests, is starting to buckle and squeak We consumers have been so wor- It was as long ago as 1798 when in every corner. ried about the dolphin by-catch in tuna the economist, Thomas Maltus, wrote So what is the answer here? Forget fisheries and have demanded “dolphin- his famous Essay on the Principle of tuna and revert to eating turnips and free” tuna, but now perhaps it is the time Population in which he stated that popu- potatoes? Skipping a level in the food to reconsider our incessant consumption lations grow geometrically while food chain by eating vegetables ourselves of wild tuna overall before they are all supplies only increase arithmetically.
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