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Pierre-Yves Cousteau, youngest son of legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, is launching Cousteau Divers, and St. Pete may be the organization’s center for the western hemisphere. Pierre-Yves Cousteau speaks at a gathering at The Dali Museum Wednesday. The son of Jacques Cousteau may use St. Petersburg as the home to soon-to-be launched Cousteau Divers USA. Credit Lee Diekemper. ST. PETERSBURG – If local leaders can be persuasive, the home for Cousteau Divers in the western hemisphere will be St. Petersburg.

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Cousteau Divers May Call Florida City Home; ‘I Woke Up This Morning And Saw Dolphins’

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Have you ever wondered what would happen to an egg if you cracked it deep underwater? Yeah, we haven’t either. Leave it to a pair of Aussie divers to jump in and try it out to see the results. Two instructors from Go Dive Brisbane dove into 32 meters of water with a half dozen eggs intent on solving the underwater mystery, the results they got were interesting, as well as what happened to the eggs when they were done. For us Americans that don’t use the metric system, 32 meters converts to about 105 feet of water, so these guys were deep. When the divers broke the egg, the result was not a gloppy mess, but rather the egg remained in a ovoid shape until it, well, disappeared!. Divers have reported playing tennis underwater with eggs like this using coffee stirrers, perhaps a new Olympic sport? Hey if trampoline can be an event, why not this?

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What happens when you crack an egg 100 feet underwater? A fish eats it

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Eco Divers, one of the first scuba operators in the Manado area of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, has moved into the high-end Minahasa Lagoon resort. “By joining these two successful brands, we look forward to providing our guests with a level of service that has not been seen before in North Sulawesi,” says founding partner Jim Yanny. The resort has its own house reef, and is said to offer easy access to the coral and critter dive-sites of southern Bunaken National Park. Eco Divers will run three purpose-built boats and maintain a guest-to-guide ratio of 4:1. The Digital Centre photo/video facility managed by Scubazoo will offer its services from the new location.

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Eco Divers moves into high-end Manado resort

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But Antarctica is different. Averaged out, sea ice around the Frozen Continent has grown by a little less than 1% per decade. From place-to-place, season-to-season, and year-to-year, however, the trends in Antarctic sea ice have shown a lot more variability than those in the Arctic. In other words, there’s a lot we don’t know about sea ice in the Antarctic and, right now, the data we have is too noisy to say much about it for sure. At least, in a big picture sort of way.

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Under the ice: Research diving in Antarctica

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A Briton who became the world’s first paraplegic diving instructor before teaching diving as therapy to others with disabilities has received a key American diving industry honour.

Fraser Bathgate, who runs the Edinburgh-based Deptherapy rehabilitation programme for war-injured and other types of disabled diver, has been inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame, administered by the USA’s Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA).

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Champion of disabled scuba honoured

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Aggressor Fleet liveaboards specialise in trips to more than 20 diving destinations worldwide, including Galapagos, the Maldives and Raja Ampat.

And to celebrate 27 years in operation, the company is offering a saving of $600 off bookings taken up to 30 November for trips completed by 30 June 2012.

“From the schooling hammerheads in Galapagos to the whale sharks in Utila, Aggressor Fleet has an excursion that will suit your appetite for adventure and your vacation budget,” it says.

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November deadline for Aggressor anniversary specials

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Pierre Cousteau has created a non-profit Cousteau Divers, an online platform that allows drivers and snorkelers to connect and help visitor insurance monitor the life underwater in real time through science, community and multimedia.

There are 20 million divers worldwide. They’re able to take snapshots and report what they see on a regular basis, and Cousteau believes this will help actively protect marine life. Cousteau wants St. Petersburg to be the dive center for the U.S.

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Youngest Cousteau Son Creates Online Platform For Divers To Report On Marine Life

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David Parker, who founded the British diving equipment manufacturer A P Valves in 1969, has died. Parker went on to launch, in 1972, visitor health insurance the Buddy buoyancy compensator. It was one of the first devices to utilise a direct-feed, low-pressure inflator. Well known A P Valves models such as the Buddy Pacific, Arctic, Sea King and Commando jackets were marketed while Parker still headed the company. Notably, the company has succeeded in having three of its products make the top ten in a recent DIVER readers’ poll for the top 25 pieces of diving equipment on the market.A key decision was that taken to produce closed-circuit rebreathers, which have been manufactured in recent years under a separate entity, Ambient Pressure Diving. In 2007, David Parker was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by DIVER Magazine.

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Goodbye to A P Valves founder

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