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For Subscriber David Denson Whiteside (with username 'dwhitesi' exp: 2024-08-20', at dwhite95815@hotmail.com )
April 15, 2016
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Undercurrent next month tells the salutary tale of someone who thought that was true and those that thought otherwise. It’s something every underwater photographer will be interested in. The moral of the story is to not take something that doesn’t belong to you and if you do make that mistake, come clean without prevarication.

When carbon dioxide dissolves in saltwater, it causes it to be more acidic, which has serious consequences for many marine animals, in particular those that use the process of calcification to grow. A more acidic environment inhibits the process of calcification, meaning corals and shelled critters and crustaceans have less material with which to make their skeletons. This not only affects these organisms directly, but also it affects all the creatures that rely on them for food such as parrotfish and even nurse sharks.

George Clooney and his lawyer wife Amal, reports Grazia Magazine, have been forced to take dramatic steps to improve the security of their London home after she received death threats for defending the arrested yet democratically elected President of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed (formerly a scuba diver and active campaigner to stop global warming). He was arrested at gunpoint in a coup by the present autocratic government. Amal says, “It’s important that tourists know the facts of what’s happening. I don’t think they realize there’s (often) a flogging taking place less than a mile from where they are sunbathing [and scuba diving].”

Colorado may not be known for top diving spots but the Colorado Gators Reptile Park in the Saint Luis Valley wants to change all that with the aid of its alligators. At the moment, they are digging a 30-foot deep hole, around 200-feet across and fed by a geothermal spring, with an alligator habitat adjacent to the main lagoon where divers would be able swim next to a 10-foot reptile, separated only by a Plexiglass wall. To help fund the project, they are offering $100 donors a free pass for a year. (Source: Denver Post)

Some people are happily oblivious and put themselves in danger along with those that rescue them. You’ll find one story in our latest Diving Insider’s Blog at www.undercurrent.org.

We’ve got some great book reviews coming up including Mustard’s Underwater Photography – Masterclass, Dr Wicksten’s Vertical Reefs, and Pirate Hunters by John Chatterton.

We’re already gearing up for the 2017 edition of the Travelin’ Diver’s Chapbook, so we need your reports to make it even better than last year’s. Send us reviews of dive operators, liveaboards, and resorts you’ve dived since November by filling out our online form here . You can also follow the link “File a Report” on the left side of our homepage at www.undercurrent.org Or after logging in, follow the “Reader Report” link in the top navigation bar.

An undercover report from Palau . . . A high-tech way to stop fish bombing . . . How vinegar could be a useful tool . . . Diving in Cuba? Is it as good as we hope? . . . The end of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef? . . . Misplaced ideas for new cameras . . . Artificial Gills? Fact or Fiction? . . Dangerous inland sites . . . Travel Agents v the Internet (part 3) . . . That pesky snorkel . . . and much more.

Ben Davison, editor/publisher
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