Lawson Wood
 Includes Shetland Islands, Scapa Flow, and the Hebrides
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Lawson Wood
Scapa Flow has more shipwrecks and wreckage than any other location in Europe and is regarded as one of the top five wreck diving locations in the World.
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Photo & Video Workshops
20 Nov 2010 - 4 Dec 2010
Dive into the crystal clear sacred waters of the Mayas! The extensive cave system lying under the Yucatan Peninsula is like a Swiss cheese, full of holes! And after 180 degree turn you go from fresh to salt water!
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20 Nov 2010 - 2 Dec 2010
Come dive the famed reefs of Raja Ampat with Wetpixel! Raja Ampat, Indonesia, is generally considered to be the center of tropical marine biodiversity. Lush, colorful coral reefs are a backdrop for exceptional fish and invertebrate life.
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 Join Eric Cheng and Alex Mustard in an underwater photography expedition to Alaska in June 11-23, 2011. We'll be aboard the liveaboard dive vessel, the Nautilus Explorer, for 13 days of exploration between Sitka and Ketchikan.
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2 Apr 2011 - 8 Apr 2011
DO YOU WANT TO LEARN TO SHOOT SHARKS LIKE A PRO?
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Science
Science videos
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X-Ray articles in the archive
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X-Ray Mag #22 - Mar 2008
 There has been much discussion in recent years about the effect of increasing global temperatures on marine fauna (see also the last issue of this magazine). However, it has often been overlooked...
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X-Ray Mag #21 - Feb 2008
 We have previously looked at the various properties of water which have an effect on aquatic fauna, some of them a bit out of the ordinary, such as surface tension. However, one of the most important
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X-Ray Mag #20 - Dec 2007
 We have written much here in this magazine about the different properties of water. Some of them, such as surface tension, are of importance to the ability of aquatic fauna to function in their given...
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X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007
 How the snapping shrimp makes itself heard.
You might expect the oceans below the surface to be a quiet and still place, they are far from being so.
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X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
 Aquatic animals, like their land-based relatives,
can communicate in a number of ways. For example, in one form of communication, organisms can emit and detect certain organic molecules which can fun
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X-Ray Mag #17 - Jun 2007
 Water is obviously important as a basic necessity for maintaining life. Quite simply, if you don’t regularly take in water you can die within a few days.
Fundamentally, this all depends on the...
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X-Ray Mag #16 - Apr 2007
 The Black Sea is interesting not only for tourism and diving but also from the scientific and historical point of view. Atlantis? The Flood? If you are a fan of myths and mysteries then the Black Sea...
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X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006
 No! I am not talking about American beer but about ordinary clean water, water that should come out of your tap. From the air, shallow coastal sea-waters above white sands often appear to be blue or...
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Science and technology in the archive
 After a hot summer, and a series of heatwaves last year, scientists say late monsoonal conditions protected much of the coral from a major bleaching event.
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 Research by Spanish scientists has revealed that deep water has become progressively hotter and saltier since the 1940’s
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 In a research of unprecedented level, experts at the Woods Hold Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) managed to calculate the answer to two of the most basic questions about out planet – how deep the ocean is, and how much water it contains.
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 The new Scripps vessel will go into service in 2015, about a year after the work horse of the SIO fleet, the R/V Melville, is scheduled to be retired.
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 It may wreak havoc with jet engines and air travel, but it also helps fertilize the oceans.
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 Evidence that the world's water cycle has already intensified is contained in new research to be published in the American Journal of Climate.
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Ecosystems | Biology |
“Pioneer" vent species travel hundreds of kilometers to settle new deep-ocean territories
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Living exclusively oxygen-free was thought to be a lifestyle open only to viruses and single-celled microorganisms.
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