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Palmer Station, Antarctica Celebrates Earth Day With an Underwater Clean Up
Residents at Palmer Station, a year-round U.S. research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, removed old debris from the sea floor near the station in late April 2007, as a part of an annual Earth Day clean up.
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Tracking Field Marshal Rommels gold-hunter
The hunt is on for an Oxford man who could help pinpoint the location of a hoard of sunken Nazi gold.
Terry Hodgkinson, a scriptwriter for Oxfordshire-based detective drama Midsomer Murders, is planning a TV documentary about a search for a £10m haul of gold and diamonds, known as Rommel’s Gold.
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Johnson Outdoors Acquires German Seemann Sub
Leading German Brand to Join Forces with SCUBAPRO(R) and UWATEC(R)
RACINE, Wis., USA– JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC. (Nasdaq:JOUT – News) today (2. April 2007) announced it is adding the popular German brand, Seemann Sub(TM), to its portfolio of winning outdoor recreational brands.
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Calls to stop divers desecrating underwater war graves
CAMPAIGNERS have warned that a legal loophole is enabling divers to desecrate the war graves of hundreds of British servicemen killed at sea, including those who died on Sir Galahad.
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Divers inspect inside of LA’s 5-mile ocean sewage outfall
LOS ANGELES – Divers in sealed suits on Wednesday began the first internal inspection of a huge pipe that has dumped treated sewage from the nation’s second-largest city five miles out to sea for almost a half-century.
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Australian customs to use subs to hunt for drugs
Customs officers will use mini-submarines to check ships’ hulls in the hunt for drugs, weapons and bombs in Australia’s busiest ports.
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Nikon announces the D80 Digital SLR camera
Nikon has today put the end to the speculation and announced the new ten megapixel D80 digital SLR. This new camera is the natural successor to the D70/D70s with a refreshed design, user interface and a wide range of new features.
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Dive bids to solve wreck mystery in Scapa Flow
Archaeologists are to investigate a wreck reported to be that of a German warship previously said to have been salvaged and scrapped.
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Chinese divers begin search for underwater ‘Atlantis’
YUXI, YUNNAN, VR China: Ten divers began a seven-day search for a possible underwater “Atlantis” on Friday in the Fuxian Lake near Kunming, the second-deepest freshwater pool in the country.
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Poseidon to be acquired by DP Scandinavia
A Letter of Intent has been signed with regard to the acquisition of Poseidon Industri AB by DP Scandinavia AB. The take-over date is planned for June 30th 2006.
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