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Our January issue had two articles that shocked
readers so much, they took to pen and keyboard to
write us and express their feelings.
"Wreck Diving for Beginners" summarized an
article in United Airlines' Hemispheres magazine, in
which writer Jim Shepard joyfully described taking
his two inexperienced children, ages 15 and 20,
on dives inside the constricted, unlit spaces of the
WWII wrecks in Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon -- prior to
that adventure, they'd only made four dives each, to
a maximum depth of 40 feet.
In "Big Trouble at Blue Heron Bridge," tempers
flared high after online reports that Moody Gardens,
an aquarium in Galveston, TX, sent a group of
professional divers to the Bridge, a popular dive
site in Riviera Beach, FL, with collecting devices,
a truck full of holding tanks, and legal permits to
collect 4,300 animals during the span of a week last
October....
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