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Download X-Ray Magazine (Pdf) Holiday Issue Gifts for Divers Italy Polluce Wreck GLOBAL EDITION Baltic Wreck December : : January 2005 : : 2006 von Steuben Number #8 Ecology Dolphins South AfricaSardine Run Profile White Sharks Andre Hartmann Tiger Sharks Portfolio Thomas Peschak Safaris & 1COVERX-RAY MAGPHOTO : 8 : 200 BY5 ANDREW WOODBURN Photography DIRECTORY X-RAY MAG is published by AquaScope Underwater Photography Copenhagen, Denmark - www.aquascope.biz Holiday Gifts for Divers on page 68... www.xray-mag.com Say cheese! A Tiger Shark poses for a mug shot, South Africa PUBLISHER CO- EDITORS Photo by Andrew Woodburn & 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 Bremner, 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 [email protected] Michael Arvedund, PhD Michel Tagliati SENIOR EDITOR Francesco Ricciardi Michael Symes “Matt” - Andreas W Matthes [email protected] Thomas Peschak TECHNICAL MANAGER Leigh Cunningham Søren Reinke Enrico Cappeletti [email protected] Gianluca Mirto CORRESPONDENTS Ken English John Collins - Ireland Michael Aw Yann Saint-Yves - France Liz Botha Jordi Chias - Spain Andre Hartman 14 22 24 31 37 plus... POLLUCE WRECK REPORT SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH AFRICA Enrico Cappeletti - Italy Edwin Marcow EXCAVATION UPDATE ANTIBES FESTIVAL DIVE ADVENTURES SEAL HEAVEN SARDINE RUN Gary Myors - Tasmania Craig Nelson EDITORIAL 3 BY PETER SYMES BY YANN ST. YVES BY EDWIN MARCOW BY DANIEL BEECHAM BY PETER SYMES Marcelo Mammana - Argentina Yann St. Yves NEWS 5 Svetlana Murashkina - Russia Gunild Pak Symes NEW EQUIPMENT 5 2 Tomas Knutsson - Iceland Peter Symes OPINIONS 63 Jeff Dudas - CA, USA 44 49 56 71 78 HOLIDAY GIFTS 6 8 Barb Roy - WA, USA CARTOONS: SOUTH AFRICA PROFILE: SHARK MAN ECOLOGY: WRECK RAP: AFTER THE TSUNAMI: BOOKS & FILMS 85 Garold Sneegas - KS, USA Simon Cooke TOYING WITH TIGER SHARKS ANDRE HARTMAN THE LIFE OF DOLPHINS GEN. 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To subscribe or donate funds, go to: www.xray-mag.com Tell a friend about X-Ray Mag 63 81 84 88 COVER PHOTO TECHNICAL: PHOTOGRAPHY: SHARK TALES: PORTFOLIO: click here: Divers meet the Great White Shark, South Africa SURFACE MARKER BUOYS LET THERE BE LIGHT RAGGIES THOMAS PESCHAK www.xray-mag.com/refer Photo by Andrew Woodburn BY LEIGH CUNNINGHAM BY DAN BEECHAM BY EDWIN MARCOW EDITTED BY GUNILD PAK SYMES 2 X-RAY MAG : 8 : 2005 Amsterdam Barcelona Cape Town Chicago Copenhagen London Moscow Okinawa Oslo Paris Ravenna Reykjavik San Francisco Sharm El Shiekh Warsaw editorial Wishful thinking around the holidays Nations climate change con- If we put our ference in Montreal, Canada, have started deliberating on mind to it we can how to push forward the bat- tle against global warming, how do it, right? to meet the targets in the Kyoto treaty and what measures should be followed when the We phased out the CFCs in refrig- Kyoto treaty expires in 2012. erators and freezers a decade What, if anything, can take its ago because they were breaking place? As most Kyoto signatories down the ozone layer. The Mexi- have already fallen short of the cans just deployed their armed targets set forth in the 1997 pro- forces to put a stop to the illegal tocol and as many developing poaching of endangered turtles states that have since become eggs. And we have pulled several significant contributors to global whale species and the rhinos warming are exempt from meet- back from the brink of extinction. ing targets, something far more It is all about making priorities substantial is needed this time. and decisions. The global eco- First of all, the most prominent Nonsense! system is in peril. That´s glaringly dissenter, the US administration Even the obvious to anyone exposed to the must come to its senses and start American busi- daily news stream. Global warm- to leading the way by putting all nesses beg to differ on ing, the oceans being depleted, its industrial might behind the ef- that point. the slashing and burning of the fort. The US is the primary contribu- Earlier this year, a number of US rainforests… the list just goes on tor of greenhouse gasses. Other cities, states and enterprises an- and on. It seems depressingly big emitters of CO2 like India and nounced that they would comply endless. China may be happy to reduce with standards set forth in the Kyo- The delegates to the United emissions if they can do it without to protocol thereby defying the hampering their rapid develop- Bush administration. As concerned The problem with being ment. parents and members of the a conservationist is that The current administration, the global community, mayors, sena- we have all become like same people who pulled the US tors and captians of industry also out of the Kyoto agreement, a know that conservation and Cassandra, the doom agreement which took three years reaching emission targets also and gloom prophetess to negotiate, maintain that they makes good economic sense. are serious about climate change. Clean technology is clearly go- princess of Troy. But the administration is nonethe- ing to become steadily important less still resisting targets in the global economy and many Paul Watson co-founder of and reiterating claims that meet- American corporations are con- Greenpeace, founder and ing Kyoto targets would put Ameri- cerned that they will lose out to President of the Sea Shepherd can businesses at a disadvantage. their overseas competitors if they Conservation Society. 3 X-RAY MAG : 8 : 2005 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED do not pursue alternatives now. a bold one, to set things in mo- It is not all that complicated. tion on the grander scale that is Economy rests on ecology. Nature necessary to make the difference. still forms the basis of the econom- And a lot of concerned people ic food chain. We fish, harvest, at the grass roots need to vote a hunt and log. Once we deplete strong leader like that into of- these resources, everything else fice. When the late US president dries up too. Needless to say, we JF Kennedy in 1960 declared need to protect those resources that the US would put a man on and exploit them in a sustainable the moon before the end of the way. decade, it pulled an entire nation Europe has already become 1° together behind an almost impos- C warmer in the past century and sible mission. it is going to get worse. There will Can’t we do the same when be unpredictable consequences it comes to the global environ- upon environment and economy. ment? Isn´t there a greater sense Taking the necessary precautions of urgency now? now, aiming at meeting the set What we want for Christmas this targets, the estimated price is €45 year is that another bold states- per year per inhabitant in Europe. person like Kennedy to come for- Wait a little longer, and the price ward onto the world stage, finally may rise to €1500 according to placing petty politics and special analysts. interests aside, and formulate In the US, it has been speculat- a strong and resounding vision ed that the recent hurricanes, Kat- about saving this planet, putting rina and Wilma—which caused the whole of humankind’s amaz- damage into the billions of dollars ing ingenuity and industrial might and ruined many lives and busi- behind it. nesses—were also artefacts of We just want the world to go on global warming. How much more and Nature, as we know it, to pre- money and suffering could have vail. It holds so many wonders and been spared if we had just invest- beautiful creatures many of which ed earlier in greener technologies still await discovery by perhaps and implemented them already. someone like you or me. Greener technologies and their application is not just a fanciful Safe diving - and happy holidays dream. They can become real- ity. But someone at the top needs to make the decision, and make X-RAY MAG is distributed six times manuscripts, photographs and per year on the Internet. © 2005 X- illustrations should be emailed to RAY MAG. All rights reserved. [email protected]. Material in this publication may X-RAY MAG accepts no respon- not be reproduced or transferred sibility for unsolicited materials sent electronically in any form without to its office, nor is it liable for loss or written permission. damage to such materials. Views and information expressed X-RAY MAG observes a strict pri- in articles are those of the individual vacy policy. No personal or private author and are not necessarily rep- information will be shared with resentative of views held by X-RAY a third party without the written MAG or its affiliates. Unsolicited permssion of the owner. 4 X-RAY MAG : 8 : 2005 in the wind News edited by Peter & Gunild Symes NEWS Hard-hitting Wilma ravages CaribbeanALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF MATT OF PROTEC DIVING IN PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO This year’s hurricane season has already reported finding three of the divers alive minimal damages after Hurricane Wilma seen the devastation o the category four and body of a fourth from the missing passed through the region.
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