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X-Ray Mag #48

Special coverage of Komodo Island with Andrey Bizyukin and Abigail Smigel Mullens; Orcas of Valdes in Patagonia with Frank Wirth; Madeira oceanic archipelago with Nuno Sá; Bali's Liberty wreck with Don Silcock; Why switch to rebreathers with Mark Powell; Cavern training with Alan Purcell; It's raining sharks in French Polynesia with Andy Murch; Shipwrecks 2012 report by Robert Osborne; Island Biogeography with Peter Symes; Night photography with Lawson Wood; Svetlana Murashkina takes us to a unique ski and dive site in Andorra at high altitude in the Pyrenees. Plus news and discoveries, equipment and training news, books and media, underwater photo and video equipment, turtle news, shark tales, whale tales and much more...

92 spreads (double pages)

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Special coverage of Komodo Island including Manta Alley and Hot, Castle, Crystal, and Cannibal Rocks with Abigail Smigel Mullens as well as Sangaung, Bima, Shotgun, Rodeo Rock and the Komodo dragon with Andrey Bizyukin.

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Section I

Will tourism save the sharks? Shark-dive tourism in Fiji worth US$42.2 million a year; Duke research team wins NASA award: Preventing decompression sickness in astronauts; Bones of early Americans stolen from underwater cave; Ambient Pressure Diving built the life support system for James Cameron's record dive; Shipwrecks 2012 report; WWII German seaplane to be salvaged in Norway; Rare WWII German nightfigher found in the North Sea; Michigan Shipwreck Research Association finds historic wreck; New airport scanners could end European liquid ban; iPads on planes; Malaysia Airlines creates a no-child zone


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Section II

Special coverage of Komodo Island including Manta Alley and Hot, Castle, Crystal, and Cannibal Rocks with Abigail Smigel Mullens as well as Sangaung, Bima, Shotgun, Rodeo Rock and the Komodo dragon with Andrey Bizyukin. Plus related news: Issues with cyanide fishing.


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Section III

Equipment News with Roz Lunn: Mares Matrix, TUSA M-211_HR, Poseidon Ballistic bag, Light & Motion Sola 2000, Oceanic USA line, Mares Instinct, Aeris Atmos, Scubapro Meridian, Halcyon Defender, Lavacore, Nuytten rolls out the new Exosuit; Madeira oceanic archipelago with Nuno Sá; Island Biogeography with Peter Symes; Orcas of Valdes in Patagonia with Frank Wirth; Marine Mammals with Kelly LaClaire: Dolphin Gangs? North Sea Bottlenose holding fast, Norwegian controversial whale hunt underway, Researchers find what may be the world’s only adult white orca

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Section IV

Bali's Libery Wreck with Don Silcock; Books and Media with Catherine GS Lim: Eyes in the Sea by Robert Wicklund, Mediterranean Great White Sharks by Alessandro De Maddalena and Walter Heim, Empreinte by Eric Bettens, 72 Hours by Frank Pope, Ships and Boats -- Prehistory to 1840, Philippine Marine Mollusks Volume 4 by G. T. Poppe, Marine Fish ID Fish ID: Great Barrier Reef app by Neville Coleman, WhaleALERT app; Cavern Training with Alan Purcell; It's raining Sharks in French Polynesia with Andy Murch; Shark Tales: More Sharks In Protected Areas


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Section V

Switching to Rebreathers: Why Switch? by Mark Powell; Ambient Pressure meets PADI RecTec rebreather requirements; Night Photography with Lawson Wood; Photo and Video News with Don Silcock: Sea & Sea YS-D1, Nauticam Housing, Canon G1 X Housing, Canon’s new DSLR’s, Canon EOS 1D C, Hugyfot, Subal, Gates Deep Epic Video Housing, BS KInetics Namib, Blackmagic Design; Unique Dive Site: Ski and Dive in Andorra with Svetlana Murashkina


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