Haitian Recycled Metal Art of Mermaids & Marine Life Sub-Arctic Canada Churchill Equipment GLOBAL EDITION Wetsuits May 2010 Number 36 Sharks Spiney Dogfish Florida Blue Heron Bridge Wrecks Jade Treasures baLTIC DIVING & WRECKS Profile Mike Valentine Sweden1 X-RAY MAG : 36 : 2010 COVER PHOTO BY STEIN JOHNSEN DIRECTORY X-RAY MAG is published by AquaScope Media ApS Frederiksberg, Denmark www.xray-mag.com PUBLISHER SENIOR EDITOR Canons found on 17th century wreck, Baltic Sea, Sweden & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Michael Symes Peter Symes [email protected] [email protected] SECTION EDITORS contents PUBLISHER / EDITOR Andrey Bizyukin, PhD - Features & CREATIVE DIRECTOR Arnold Weisz - News, Features Gunild Symes Catherine Lim - News, Books [email protected] Simon Kong - News, Books Mathias Carvalho - Wrecks ASSOCIATE EDITORS Cindy Ross - GirlDiver & REPRESENTATIVES: Scott Bennett - Photo & Travel Americas: Michael Arvedlund - Ecology Arnold Weisz [email protected] CORRESPONDENTS Robert Aston - CA, USA Russia Editors & Reps: Enrico Cappeletti - Italy Andrey Bizyukin PhD, Moscow John Collins - Ireland [email protected] Marcelo Mammana - Argentina Nonoy Tan - The Philippines Svetlana Murashkina PhD, Moscow [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Scott Bennett South East Asia Editor & Rep: Erik Bjurström Catherine GS Lim, Singapore Mathias Carvalho [email protected] Jonas Dahm Wayne Fenior ASSISTANT EDITORS Pernilla Flyg & REPRESENTATIVES: Björn Hagberg Malaysia Editor & Rep: Stefan Hogeborn Simon Kong, Kuala Lumpur Fredrik Isakson [email protected] Stein Johnsen Millis Keegan Canada/PNW Editor & Rep: Justin Kerr Barb Roy, Vancouver Dylan Kibler [email protected] Catherine GS Lim Roz Lund GirlDiver Editor & PNW Rep: Jacque Marc Cindy Ross, Tacoma, USA Andy Murch [email protected] Ron Pierson JONAS DAHM Mark Powell ADVERTISING Rob Rondeau International sales rep: Barb Roy Arnold Weisz Adam St.Gelais 16 25 47 60 67 plus... 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While the team behind X-RAY While our headquarters are This is especially true around MAG is truly international, span- still based in Copenhagen, midsummer, when the white ning several continents from we think the time has come nights cast almost everlasting Catherine GS Lim in the East, to invite you inside our very sunsets and romantic evenings who faithfully and solidly takes own backyard and the waters on the beach, when one can care of our business out of upon whose beaches our dear grill seafood on a camp fire Singapore, to Barb Roy in Can- Scandinavian editors played as and go diving around the clock ada, the tech-diving grandma kids and where they took their without needing a lamp. of British Columbia, and all our first nervous breaths through a other wonderful editors in the regulator. While most Scandinavians are times zones in between, our habitual dive travellers yearn- founding editor-in-chief, Peter With this issue, which features ing to see as much of the world Symes, is a native Copenha- Sweden (Denmark and Nor- as possible, none of them have gener of British-Scandinavian way will be featured at an- a desire to leave home during heritage- other time), we want to put the these pleasant summer months. spotlight on some of the unique Once upon a time, “in another diving that the Scandinavian This issue sets out to explain century”, Peter and his Scan- peninsula has to offer. why. dinavian colleagues, Arnold Weisz and Millis Keegan, were Scandinavia has some awe- — Værsågod! (Bon appetit) cinema of dreams editors of the Norwegian, some underwater treasures, Swedish and Danish print dive which have not quite yet magazines, before pooling their received the interna- Fresh and delicious smør- expertise and experience and tional recognition they rebrød (open-face sand- putting it behind the publica- deserve—in particular, the wiches) in Denmark, or tion you are now reading. amazing historic wrecks smörgåsbord (buffet) in from centuries past, many Sweden, served with beer Over the years, X-RAY MAG has of which are still stunning and snaps, covered exotic locales —such and in pristine condition. is typical of as Tasmania, Lake Baikal and Scandinavian Patagonia—gone to the South- While some of the diving can fare for lunch or ern Ocean and Bikini Atoll, be demanding at times, and brunch. 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