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  ...Humpback Whale                          
  ...Killer Whales / Orcas                          
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  ...Great White Sharks                          
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  ...Bull sharks                          
  ...Tiger Sharks                          
  ...Ragged Tooth Shark                          
  ...Angel Sharks diving lanzarote diving lanzarote diving lanzarote diving lanzarote             diving lanzarote diving lanzarote  
  ...Oceanic Sharks                 diving marsa alam diving marsa alam diving marsa alam diving marsa alam  
  ...Dolphins diving marsa alam diving marsa alam diving marsa alam diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alam diving marsa alam diving marsa alam  
  ...Turtles diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamdiving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamdiving sharm el sheikhdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamdiving sharm el sheikhdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamdiving sharm el sheikhdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamdiving sharm el sheikhdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamdiving sharm el sheikhdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamdiving sharm el sheikhdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamdiving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life diving marsa alamsafaga_marine_life  
  ...Manta Rays diving mozambique diving mozambique diving mozambique diving mozambiquediving marsa alam diving mozambiquediving marsa alam diving mozambiquediving marsa alamdiving dahab diving mozambique diving mozambique diving mozambique diving mozambique diving mozambique diving mozambique  
  ...Varied Marine Life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving mozambiquediving sharm el sheikhdiving marsa alamdiving dahabsafaga_marine_life  
  ...Seals                          
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  ...Wrecks diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life diving lanzarotediving sharm el sheikhsafaga_marine_life  
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Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how one tiny creature has flourished for up to 50 million years without sex: it dries up.

Bdelloid rotifers, microscopic asexual freshwater invertebrates (animals without spines) are the ultimate escape artists, able to outpace their enemies by drying up and blowing away.

For most animals, sex is not only a way of producing the next generation, but a means of keeping enemies at bay.

"If an organism stops having sex and crystallizes its genome, all of [its enemies] catch up with it evolutionarily and can quickly overwhelm it," explained Paul Sherman, a neurobiologist at Cornell University in New York.

This idea, known as the Red Queen Hypothesis, helps explain why most animals go to great lengths to find mates and have sex. No Shit Sherlock! More...GO


 

  Dolphins Really Are The Most Intelligent Creatures  
 


About 25 years ago, while I was a Psychology graduate student at the University of Hawaii, I made several visits to the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory (KBMML) in Honolulu.  Those visits were field trips, made in conjunction with an intensive seminar on cognition that I was enrolled in that semester. The main focus of that seminar was human cognition, but along the way we studied comparative animal cognition as well, and my classmates and I visited the KBMML to learn something about dolphin cognition.

What we saw was impressive. At that time, researchers at the lab were just beginning to elucidate the extent of dolphins' ability to comprehend and interpret "an artificial sign language, in which gestures are like words and sequences of gestures are like sentences."  Through a series of carefully constructed experiments, the researchers were able to show that dolphins' comprehension of this language went far beyond mere response to commands (such as you would give to a dog to sit, or roll over).

 The dolphins were taught to associate hand signs with a corresponding noun object -- e.g., a beach ball, a hula hoop, a surfboard -- and they learned signed verbs, such as fetch, take, and jump. Using these vocabulary items in combination, the dolphins could be instructed to "fetch ball' or "fetch hula hoop" -- and they would select the correct item from among several floating in their pool, and bring it to the trainer.

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  Tips For Clearing Your Ears  
 


The most common method of clearing your ears is called the Valsalva maneuver. To perform this, you close your mouth, pinch your nostrils closed and gently blow through your nose. ear scuba diving tips

If you are having problems, try these ear scuba diving tips to help you descend safely:

  • Start on the Surface

  • Before you even go under the water, start your equalization method. If you are using the Valsalva maneuver, gently blow through your nose while you are waiting to start your descent. This "pre-pressurizes" the ear and makes equalization easier upon descent.
  • Descend Feet First

  • If you are descend with your head first, it affects the Eustachian tube and makes it harder to equalize your ears.
  • Equalize Early and Often

  • This should be familiar from your scuba diving certification class. Begin equalizing as soon as your head goes underwater and continue equalizing every few feet. This is probably the most important step to descending without ear problems. If you are having problems clearing one ear, tilt your head - with the blocked ear toward the surface. More ear scuba diving tips:
  • Ascend if Not Clearing

  • If your ears are not clearing properly, ascend a few feet to reduce the pressure. Try clearing them again. If it still doesn't work, ascend a few more feet and try again. Rinse and repeat until you have cleared your ears successfully.
 
 
   
 

 
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   Exceptional Weather Conditions Lead To Record High Florida Manatee Count
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- After nearly two weeks of record cold weather in Florida, biologists counted an all-time-high number of manatees during the annual synoptic survey the week of Jan. 11. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute reported a preliminary count of 5,067 manatees statewide. A team of 21 observers from 10 organizations counted 2,779 manatees on Florida’s East Coast and 2,288 on the West Coast. The final numbers will be available at the end of February, following verification of the survey data. ...GO
   

 Ending Seal Hunt Makes Economic Cents
 

YARMOUTH PORT, Massachusetts -- On the heels of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea's taxpayer-funded trip to China in attempt to drum up markets for seal products, a new economic analysis indicates that Canadian taxpayers would be much better served by ending the seal hunt altogether. The study by Dr. John Livernois, which is published in the journal Marine Policy this month, determines that the economic benefits of ending Canada's commercial seal hunt far outweigh the costs. The paper determines that ending commercial sealing would save Canada a minimum of $6.9 million a year....MORE




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Three Second Fish Memory 'Just Rubbish'; Memory 'Quite Sophisticated'
 
 
ALBURY, Australia -- Have you heard the one about gold fish having only a three second memory - by the time they swim around the bowl, they’ve forgotten where they are and swim around again? “It’s absolute rubbish,” says Dr Kevin Warburton, an adjunct researcher with Charles Sturt University’s Institute for Land, Water and Society who has been studying fish behavior for many years.
 

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  8 Remarkable Animals That Saved People’s Lives  
 


Beluga whale saves drowning diver - Diver Yang Yun was part of a competition to hold her breath for as long as possible in a pool of beluga whales in China. The dive was running smoothly until she tried to move her legs and they wouldn’t move. That’s when Mila, one of the beluga whales, came to her rescue. Sensing something was wrong, the whale immediately swam to the drowning diver, took Yun’s leg in her mouth and lifted her to the surface to breathe, saving her life...MORE
 

  Great White Sharks - What Do We Really Know?  
 


What do we really know about them?

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 16 January, 2010 : - - The Great White shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as white pointer, or white death, is a large shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. However, their greatest concentrations can be found off the southern coasts of Australia, South Africa and California. It’s called a Great White because its underbelly is white. Its top is more of a greyish blue.

The Great White reaches lengths of more than 5m and may weigh up to 2,000kg. It becomes sexually mature at around 15 years of age and has a lifespan of 30 to over 100 years. The Great White shark is arguably the world’s largest known predatory fish, eating dolphins, porpoises, whale carcasses, seals and sea lions.

It is an open-ocean dweller and lives between the surface and 1,280m. It is most often found close to the surface.

Jaws, the movie and book franchise, provided the Great White shark with the image of a “man eater” in the public mind. In reality, humans are not appropriate prey for white sharks. While Great White sharks have killed a few humans, they typically do not target them: for example, in the Mediterranean Sea there have been 31 confirmed attacks against humans in the last 200 years, most non-fatal. In fact, you are more likely to be struck by lightning.

 


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Many incidents seem to be “test-bites”. Great White sharks also test-bite buoys, flotsam and other unfamiliar often inanimate objects, and might grab a human or a surfboard to identify it.

Other incidents seem to be cases of mistaken identity, in which a shark ambushes a bather or surfer from below, believing the silhouette is from a seal. Many attacks occur in waters with low visibility.

The species appears to not like the taste of humans, or at least finds the taste unfamiliar. Further research shows that they can tell in one bite whether or not the object is worth attacking. Humans, for the most part, are too bony for their liking. They much prefer a fat, protein-rich seal.

Accordingly, in most recorded attacks, great whites broke off contact after the first bite. Fatalities are usually caused by blood loss from the initial limb injury rather than from critical organ loss or from whole consumption.

Great White sharks, like many other sharks, have rows of serrated teeth behind the main ones, ready to replace any that break off. When the shark bites, it shakes its head from side to side, helping the teeth saw off large chunks of flesh.

 

 

 
 
   



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So there ya go, I hope this is a help in some form or fashion and many thanks to all there for sending me on a great cheap diving holiday in Egypt! John Hi Adam Thanks for your email - sory it's taken me so long to reply. I had a great time diving in Lanzarote and really enjoyed it, all the guys at Calpso Diving were great also. Thanks also to you and Cameron for helping me sort out arrangements after my flight was cancelled. I'm looking to come back possibly Aug/Sept to maybe finish the Advanced course, on another great cheap diving holiday so will be back in touch.

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