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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Revival of staghorn coral in Florida surprises experts
Over the past few years, scientists have noticed a sharp increase in staghorn coral, a delicately branched species that has declined so sharply that it was listed as a threatened species by the federal government.
Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis)
Sun Sentinel | Wikipedia | 08-28-2009
Staghorn coral has established thick new growths off southeast Florida, with the best known growths in Broward County and anecdotal evidence of them in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties.
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In 2006 the US federal government designated elkhorn and staghorn corals as threatened species, making it illegal to harm them, after years of declines due to bleaching, disease and hurricane damage.
The staghorn growths seem to appear wherever the water is shallow enough to let in enough sunlight, up to a depth of about 40 feet, said Ken Banks, a biologist with the Broward County Department of Environmental Protection and Growth Management.
The reefs generate billions of dollars in revenue from fishing, diving and snorkeling. But Banks said we shouldn't assess the importance of protecting them simply in terms of what they do for people.
Staghorn coral is found throughout the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean islands. This coral occurs in the western Gulf of Mexico, but is absent from U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as Bermuda and the west coast of South America. The northern limit is on the east coast of Florida, near Boca Raton.
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