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Valentines Day Special: Gifts for Divers Exotic Diving The Philippines LIGPO CEBU MALAPASCUA DUMAGUETE DAUIN GLOBAL EDITION History February :: March 2006 First Frogmen Number 9 Deepest Wreck Dive Yolanda Canada Nova Scotia Isla Guadelupe Profile Sharks Dr Phil Nyutten Portfolio Ray Troll: Sharkabet COVER PHOTO BY NONOY TAN 1 X-RAY MAG : 9 : 2006 DIRECTORY X-RAY MAG is published by AquaScope Underwater Photography Special Valentines Issue Copenhagen, Denmark - www.aquascope.biz www.xray-mag.com Gifts for the Diver in Your Life... page 75 DIVER WITH OUTSTRETCHED ARMS GOLD PENDENT AVAILABLE AT WWW.SEAWEAR.COM PUBLISHER CO- EDITORS & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Andrey Bizyukin Pair of Gobies, The Philippines. Photo by Scott Bennett Peter Symes - Caving, Equipment, Medicine [email protected] Michael Arvedlund - Ecology MANAGING EDITOR Dan Beecham - Photography contents & 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 Michael Portelly [email protected] Catherine GS Lim Europe + Africa: [email protected] REGULAR WRITERS South East Asia representative: John Collins - Ireland Catherine GS Lim, Singapore Nonoy Tan - The Philippines [email protected] Amos Nachoum - CA, USA Internet-advertising: Robert Aston - CA, USA Deb Fugitt, USA Bill Becher - CA, USA [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE SENIOR EDITOR Dan Beecham Michael Symes [email protected] Scott Bennet Adam Butler TECHNICAL MANAGER Sven Erik Jørgensen Søren Reinke Catherine GS Lim [email protected] Svetlana Murashkina, PhD CORRESPONDENTS Barb Roy John Collins - Ireland Stewart L. 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Send letters to the editor COVER PHOTO DR PHIL NYUTTEN WILL TRAVEL RAY TROLL: SHARKABET [email protected] Tiny Crab on Sea Urchin, Philippines Nonoy Tan BY GUNILD SYMES BY J. HELLER, D. BEECHAM BY GUNILD SYMES 2 X-RAY MAG : 9 : 2006 Amsterdam Barcelona Cape Town Chicago Copenhagen London Moscow Okinawa Oslo Paris Ravenna Reykjavik San Francisco Sharm El Shiekh Warsaw Are editorial Whales are just so cuddly likable, aren’t they? With their big dreamy constitutes at the moment. If there eyes, high intelligence and highly was huge self sustaining populations organised family structures, it is just whales of whales, which could be exploited too easy to relate and empathise with in a sustainable and responsible man- these magnificient fellow inhabitants ner then, maybe, we would have an of our Blue Planet. They have become cute? entirely different issue at hand. But icons for the environmentalists, often as matters stand, hunting the whales to the point where they become is just impoverishing the shrouded in a romantic aura. We in mockery of what the whaling mora- planet, and once they are What’s the West certainly don’t want to hunt torium is supposed to be all about is gone, they are gone for them anymore, and we are outraged a provocation that flies right in the good. scientific when the Japanese send out whole face of the rest of us. It calls for a firm On these matters, about these fleets of whalers to the Southern response. we side 100% with the catches? Ocean whale sanctuary to catch This came at the end of December, Australian government, �� hundreds of whales for which saw an intense standoff which is perhaps the most consumption under the Japan is expect- between Greenpeace and vocal of the17 anti-whaling nations. �� guise of conducting ed to kill 935 the whalers, with Japanese Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, �� “scientific catches”. warships purportedly under Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Well, other animals, minke whales way to interfere in the conflict Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, �� cows for example, have in the Southern and with the Australian gov- New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, nice eyes and are cute ernment, on the other hand Sweden and the UK have all signed a �� too. But we eat them Ocean whale becoming very vocal, vowing formal letter urging Japan to end its �� without putting much sanctuary to bring whaling in the south- whaling activities. �� though to it—except ern Oceans to an end. Japan, however, remains defiant perhaps when we become all wound and will not change its stance. Japan up over mad cow disease and such. Whose whales are they any- intends to continue its whale-hunting Whales are meat too, so what’s the way? Do you have to plant a program despite mounting interna- problem? harpoon in a whale to claim it as tional protest, according to statement “yours”? Assuming that we all have from a spokesman for the Japanese ... Hippocracy is, and the fact that equal rights to ownership of these Fisheries Agency Hideki Moronoki. He most whales are on the brink of creatures, how do I go about keeping added that Japan is entitled to catch extinction as most of us are so pain- “my whale” alive. Do I have to fear whales under international whaling fully aware. that somebody else will kill it? These law, “We plan to continue with the The concept of “scientific catches” notions of ownership over wild, free research hunting,” he said. was, needless to say, never intended roaming animals is, of course, ludi- In response, via a joint statement, to be a legal loophole for a whole crous. That is why we have treaties Australian Foreign Minister Alexander nation’s whaling fleet to exploit and regulating their sustainable exploita- Downer and Environment Minister Ian enjoy a self-serve spree on the other tion, and it is also why breaching the Campbell remained equally adament side of the globe. Granted, Japan is rules amounts to stealing from the and committed to ending whaling not the only whaling nation. We also rest of us. Us, meaning me and you, under the guise of scientific research. have some here in Northern Europe, and future generations who will not of which we are not too happy get to experience these magnificent Something’s got to give, either, but the magnitude of the creatures... That is, if we don’t put and it’s got to be Japanese operations and the vagrant an end to the madness that whaling whaling! ■ �� The International Whaling Commission (IWC) declared a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, but whaling for �� scientific purposes is still allowed. Japan is expected to kill 935 minke whales in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary over the first four months of the year in what the country claims are scientific research hunts. 3 X-RAY MAG : 9 : 2006 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS editorial “The best way to predict the future is to invent it!” It has been two years already A recent survey since our little baby, this mag- revealed that we in azine, came to light. We can the West, on aver- 2 years! hardly believe it either. Yet, age, now spend like most parents, we can’t almost three hours But roles do change as help marvelling over how far daily online, far surpassing TV times change, and so should our baby has developed and and other past times. media and how we use it. grown in the interim. This little Distribution modes alone— anniversary also provides us In the past year, we have also email vs. snail mail—isn’t or with an interesting yardstick— received a lot of heart warm- shouldn’t be the defining a measure of how fast the ing letters from the readers feature of a magazine or media scene changes. and flattering reviews. Thank any media. It is the message Only two years ago, some you! in the media and of our main concerns where This feedback and encour- what it communicates whether the general diving agement has meant, and still that counts. public was ready for a digitally means, a lot to the whole hard In this regard, we distributed magazine concept working crew and contributors want to press the like X-RAY MAG and whether of X-RAY MAG. We appreci- boundaries of what downloads of 4-5Mb file size ate the support that has been digital magazines can were too heavy. given to us from our readers, do, be and mean Perhaps, the size was just advertisers and colleagues. in the dive industry on the borderline at the time.

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