Lawson Wood
 Dive sites are described in detail from Stranraer in the south west all the way to Cape Wrath at the north west of Scotland and includes all of the commercial diving locations such as the Clyde Estuary; Loch Fyne; Oban, the Garvellachs and Sound of Mull; Fort William; the Inner and Outer Hebrides; St.Kilda and the Flannan Isles and the Summer Isles.
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Andrea Ferrari and Antonella Ferrari
Creative Techniques and Camera Systems for Digital and Film
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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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Wreck videos from elsewhere
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From X-Ray Mag
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X-Ray Mag #09 - Feb 2006
 In the years prior to World War II, the Italian fleet had developed a new underwater weapon, the SLC, a slow torpedo which was manned by two divers. Submerged, and thereby unseen, the frogmen on the SLC could get close in to the enemy ships and mine them. The frogmen trained in attacking their own ships, and after many excercises developed a procedure for approach and placing mines under the...
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X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005
 German ocean liner General von Steuben was torpedoed by a Russian submarine in 1945 taking thousands of refugees fleeing the advancing Red army with her to the bottom. She now rests at 72 meters in the Baltic Sea making it one of the most impressive Baltic wrecks and daunting technical dives.
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X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005
 It was one of those highly unlikely chains of unforeseable events that led us to Elba the pictoresque but somewhat mislaid lump of land in the Meditterean made famous by emperor Napoleon’s exile here: The fact that the treasureship Polluce was finally being excavated.
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X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005
 Like every grand tale of shipwreck and lost treasure, the story about the Polluce has it all. A paddlewheel steamboat shipwrecked in 1841, it is the centrepiece of a drama spanning more than one and a half centuries and has all the necessary ingredients: drama and tragedy, greed and crime, passion and politics. And it is still ongoing. Polluce is about to be excavated once more as this story goes...
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X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005
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During the first years of World War II Italian frogmen demonstrated to the world how effective a weapon a frogman could be. Hidden by the water, these frogmen mined the Allies’ ships as they were moored ‘safely’ in their own waters.
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X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005
 Now laying 25 miles off Malin Head, time stands still for this very impressive war machine. Rammed and sunk by HMS Roxburgh, all lives were lost on board the U-89.
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X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005
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The port of Narvik in north Norway was established around the export of iron-ore from Sweden. This was due to the very good harbour and its ice-free conditions. At the outbreak of World War II, Narvik was a strategically important harbour, and during the first few days of the war a very intense battle was fought out here between German, Norwegian and British naval forces.
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X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005
 ADMAT is
back in action, this time in the Philippines where we have organised a maritime archaeological survey-training project in a beautiful and historically significant area. BSAC, the British Sub Aqua Club, have asked us to run this as an expedition, which we are, but as it is an ADMAT project it is open to all as usual.
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In the News archive
 The family of the late treasure-hunting legend Mel Fisher has sold the salvage rights to the "1715 Fleet," eleven wrecks that went down off the Eastern seaboard of Florida in 1715
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 On June 19 the M/V Buccaneer was sent to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
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A wreck of a French jet fighter, which has been lying in shallow waters off the French Riviera for almost half a century, have just been located by local divers.
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 Last week, an international research team salvaged a wooden sculpture from the 1600-century wreck called Spökskeppet ("The Ghostship") which is one of the best preserved wrecks in the Baltic.
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 Key West, Florida Keys – Kicking off the 2010 search and recovery season, underwater exploration divers for Keith Webb’s Blue Water Ventures Key West discovered a five-pound fused conglomeration of artifacts Wednesday afternoon, among which a number of sea-blackened silver “pieces of eight” treasure coins are clearly identifiable.
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 The authors of the report into the future management of the 1744 shipwreck in the English Channel. said unauthorised salvage could result in "irreparable damage" to the wreck site.
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 A group of protesters has threatened legal action in a last ditch effort to stop the scuttling of former HMAS Adelaide due to happen next week.
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 Swedish experts say dozens of centuries-old shipwrecks have been found by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany.
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 (Xinhua) -- China and Kenya have signed an agreement to jointly explore the Kenyan coast for wrecks of ancient Chinese merchant ships.
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 The Kittiwake, a former Navy submarine rescue ship built in 1945, will become an artificial reef in the Cayman Islands, the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced
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 Two retired ocean-going vessels were sunk Saturday over Delaware’s artificial reefs as state continues to expand aquatic habitat while furthering its recreational angling and diving opportunities.
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Searchers this week filmed the shipwreck on the ocean floor 48km east of the southern tip of Moreton Island and laid a memorial plaque on it.
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