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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... 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