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Cool Fall Dive Fashions for Divers BC Canada Vancouver Island Deep Wreck GLOBAL EDITION Yamashiro Oct :: Nov 2006 Focus Number 13 Drysuits Portfolio Carlos Hiller Science Water Colour Ecology Medicines EQUADOR Galapagos from the Sea COVER PHOTO BY BERNARDO SAMBRA 1 X-RAY MAG : 13 : 2006 DIRECTORY X-RAY MAG is published by AquaScope Underwater Photography Dive Fashion & Accessories: Copenhagen, Denmark - www.aquascope.biz www.xray-mag.com Cool Fall Duds for Divers see... page 85 CITIZEN MEN’S 200M PROFESSIONAL DIVER TITANIUM WATCH PRICED AT US$188.89 AT WWW.AMAZON.COM PUBLISHER CO- EDITORS & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Andrey Bizyukin Peter Symes Anemone, Galapagos Islands. Photo by Bernardo Sambra - Caving, Equipment, Medicine [email protected] Millis Keegan MANAGING EDITOR - Opinions and ‘DiveGuru.net’ contents & CREATIVE DIRECTOR Michael Arvedlund - Ecology Gunild Pak Symes Jason Heller - Photography [email protected] Dan Beecham - videography ADVERTISING Michel Tagliati - Medicine Americas & United Kingdom: Leigh Cunningham Kevin Brennan - Technical Diving [email protected] Edwin Marcow Europe & Africa: - Sharks, Adventures Harvey Page, Villy Volk, Catherine GS Lim [email protected] - News International sales manager: Michael Portelly Arnold Weisz Arnold Weisz [email protected] South East Asia Rep: CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Catherine GS Lim, Singapore Michael Arvedlund, PhD [email protected] Dan Beecham Marketing Manager: Andrey Bizyukin, PhD Yann Saint-Yves Leigh Cunningham [email protected] Ralph Hagen Jason Heller SENIOR EDITOR Carlos Hiller Michael Symes [email protected] Millis Keegan Catherine GS Lim TECHNICAL MANAGER Cindy Ross Søren Reinke Barb Roy [email protected] Bernardo Sambra CORRESPONDENTS Gunild Symes Enrico Cappeletti - Italy Michael Symes 29 38 48 60 plus... Jordi Chias - Spain Peter Symes GALAPAGOS ISLANDS GALAPAGOS: EVOLUTION VANCOUVER ISLAND ECOLOGY: EDITORIAL 3 John Collins - Ireland Cedrik Verdier ADVENTURE OF AN ICONIC DESTINATION BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA MEDICINES FROM THE SEA NEWS 5 Jeff Dudas - CA, USA Peter Fritchen BY BERNARDO SAMBRA BY JASON HELLER BY BARB ROY BY MICHAEL SYMES WHALES & DOLPHINS 26 Tomas Knutsson - Iceland Stig Insulan Marcelo Mammana - Argentina SEA TURTLE NEWS 28 Hillary Child Yonatan Nir - Israel EQUIPMENT 57 Jim Standing Svetlana Murashkina - Russia 64 71 77 85 BOOKS & MEDIA 92 EEP RECK HE EN OF ERMAID ATTERS DIVE FASHION & ACCESSORIES Gary Myors - Tasmania D W : T Z M M : ALL UDS FOR IVERS BUSINESS DIRECTORY 93 Barb Roy - WA, USA Further info on our website YAMASHIRO DIVING DRYSUITS DRYSUITS FOR DIVAS F D D Yann Saint-Yves - France contacts page: BY CEDRIK VERDIER BY PETER SYMES BY CINDY ROSS EDITTED BY GUNILD SYMES Garold Sneegas - KS, USA www.xray-mag.com 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 69 83 91 95 PROFILE: RALPH HAGEN SHARK TALES: SCIENCE: PORTFOLIO: click here... COVER PHOTO CANADIAN DIVE CARTOONIST Diver with Barracuda, by Bernardo Sambra BITS & BITES WATER COLOUR CARLOS HILLER BY GUNILD SYMES EDITTED BY PETER SYMES BY MICHAEL SYMES EDITTED BY GUNILD SYMES (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) 2 X-RAY MAG : 13 : 2006 Amsterdam Barcelona Cape Town Chicago Copenhagen London Moscow Okinawa Oslo Paris Ravenna Reykjavik San Francisco Sharm El Shiekh Warsaw and editorial theme: Seeing what’s AA clearerclearer below the surface where and when the waters get cool. I am in part referring to this perspectiveperspective issues travel reports - from Galapagos and Vancouver Island. But most of all to extending the dive season in the temperate climate zone under whick many of us live - by putting on a drysuit instead of wrapping it all up for the season. It has been a long while but I still vividly remember when I got my first drysuit and just went on diving throughout the fall, and even win- ter. All of a sudden I could follow the seasons changed also below the surface and I got a much clearer picturer of cycles and suc- cessions. I started to notice chang- es when various species started to emerge, like when in a forest or field, one sees flowers bloom in the spring, or the mushrooms during the autumn. The drysuit extended my field of view immensely as regards to the Well, I know this is a dive maga- people who live in nature and connection I felt with the blue realm We remember when he was just a minnow. zine but what’s really on my mind off nature - like the iniut. Most of and I came to treasure going out these days, are the same ines- us are, after all, city dwellers and diving on a cool but clear day cable issues that we all seem to consumers in modern societies. where I could see my breath in the As the official dive training agency for Walt Disney World® for 10 magical years, our friendship there runs worry about; Daily reports about bleak sunlight. Regardless of water global warming and the war in But what we witness below the temperature I was always cozy and pretty deep. To celebrate our decade together, NAUI® will host DiveQuest at Epcot’s ® “The Living Seas” the Middleeast that both seem to surface have helped put the spot- comfy in my drysuit. On a real cold attraction during the national trade show this November. Industry professionals can win a VIP DiveQuest escalate out of control. Did I hear light on some environmental issues day I just wore another sweater or that 500 billion usd has now been that would otherwise have gone extra socks. The beauty of cool ticket. Contact Chad Barbay at 407-245-7810 or [email protected]. spent on the latter? And not a undetected for a long while. And water is that it can extremely clear fraction thereof on global warm- helped us white and blue col- as there are no algae so you got It’s a chance to feel like a big fish in a very big pond. ing. I am having issues with those lar workers reconnect to Mother this immense space around you. priorities. I don’t what the politi- nature. Thanks to divers, environ- And breathing cold air does some- cians are thinking. Do they want mental awareness has risen and thing for the metabolism - I don’t to battle over a barren planet? even caused a range of new know what. But I usually come up Visit us online at www.nauiww.org. They should be divers. projects to see the light of day. from a winter diver a lot warmer than when I went in. As for clarity, As divers we have a different Don a drysuit take an extra look at some of the and much clearer perspective. Which leads me to my next point, images from crystal clear waters on Perhaps not as clear as those presenting this issues underlying Iceland in this issue. 3 X-RAY MAG : 13 : 2006 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED 000000_couverture_33_festival 8/06/06 16:01 Page 1 33 e FESTIVAL MONDIAL DE L’IMAGE SOUS-MARINE Blue O Two Support SOS-SeaTurtles Sign the petition online, click here ☼ Thousands of sea turtles are being slaughtered often suffering an ugly painful death by being skinned alive. 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