The year 2008 has been designated as the International Year Of the Reef and Sime Darby Plantation has agreed to support the Sustainable Island Programme. The Programme is a joint collaboration between Wild Asia and Reef Check Malaysia, which will potentially see up to 30 certified Malaysian Underwater (MUW) Ecodivers surveying dive sites on the […]

Date  : 14th March 2008 until 16th March 2008
Venue: Putra World Trade Centre (Click HERE for Map)
The MATTA FAIR ‘08 will showcase a comprehensive range of travel and holiday products from all over the world in one place. During these three days, visitors can expect to find attractive bargains and great value in all the […]

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Craig Ross, founder of Calibre Boats, takes a Scuba Scuta for a spin at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World. Photo / Brett Phibbs
 
The fish weren’t the only curious snappers yesterday at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World when Kiwi boat builders Calibre Boats launched their Scuba Scuta, an Australian invention which the company is exclusively building and […]

HOLLYWOOD, California (6 Feb 2007) — There are several dazzlingly pretty but profoundly dumb characters in “Fool’s Gold,” characteristics they share with the film itself.A treasure-hunting comic romance set in the Florida Keys, it’s sunshiney enough to correct your midwinter vitamin D deficiency, and very easy on the eyes.But you could find a more intellectually […]

The respiratory physiology of goats ‘closely resembles’ that of humans.

The Ministry of Defence says it will abandon deep-diving experiments which involve inducing decompression sickness in live goats. The animals were used to see what the likely risk of “the bends” would be following escape from a submarine at […]

Submarine cables world map. Click here for full-size version (Graphic: Telegeography.com)
Dubai is one of the seven  emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates; Dubai is also the  name of its capital city. It is not a country, as we suggested  in the article below.
A flotilla of  ships may have been dispatched to reinstate the […]