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ADEX comes to Singapore, 3-5 April 2009
Asia Dive Expo (ADEX), Asia's largest and longest running dive exhibition, will be held from 3-5 April 2009 at Suntec Singapore. (Jan 6, 09)
One man coral replanting success for Sumatra
A one-man coral replanting project has proved remarkably successful in helping a coral reef devastated by the tsunami in 2004 to recover.
The idea is the brainchild of Pak Dodent, a resident of the island of Pulau Weh off the north coast of Sumatra.
Young Indonesians take home environmental award in Sweden
The students beat 14 other finalists to win the sixth edition of the Volvo Adventure in Gothenburg,
Sweden, with their "Useful Waste for Better Future" project.
Rare ancient Coelacanth caught in Indonesia
An Indonesian fisherman hooked a rare coelacanth, a species once thought as
extinct as dinosaurs, and briefly kept the "living fossil" alive in a
quarantined pool.
Dive photographers discover the delights of the Lembeh Strait
The world's full of triangles. There's the Golden Triangle, the Triangle of
the Bermudas…and then of course, most relevant of all to us divers, there's
the Macrolife Triangle, that blissful figure made up by the Malaysian
islands of Lankayan and Kapalai and – at the northern tip of the Indonesian
island of Sulawesi – the Strait of Lembeh.
Taiwan to ban whale shark consumption trade by 2008
Taiwan will ban the harvest and sale of whale sharks beginning in 2008, a
decision that could have repercussions at the Georgia Aquarium and other
facilities where the world's largest fish are displayed.
Wreck exploration project to go ahead in Japan
On the 2nd September 2006 the famous first class luxury liner Stella Polaris
sank off the coast of Kushimoto, Japan. The ship sank to a depth of 72
meters, and has never been dived by commercial or scuba divers.
Reef protection project underway at Tioman island
Some 130 divers joined Regent of Pahang Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah to
build artificial reefs near Soyak Island, one of the eight surrounding
islands here, to protect and preserve marine life recently.
Malaysia to fix up famed dive island
Malaysias Sipadan island, widely regarded as one of the world's top dive
sites, is set to get a face lift, a senior official said, following
criticism that its facilities were falling into disrepair.
Predator starfish threaten coral reefs in the Philippines
An infestation of the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish is decimating large
tracts of coral reef throughout the Philippines.
Chinese appetite for reef fish emptying Asian seas
Turquoise fish with red dots stare at hungry tourists from a tank at a
restaurant in Hong Kong, the capital of the world's live reef fish industry,
a lucrative trade devastating reefs across the Pacific Ocean.
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