Some interesting posts on the BlueBeyond Dive News and Blog over the past week.

Solomon Islands and Iceland Establish Diplomatic Relations
Upcoming Courses (taught by Des Paroz)
Book Review – Shadow Divers Exposed
Qld Police Arrest US Man Over Reef Death
DAN Launches New Online Dive Magazine
Rebreather Divers Survives Incident on HMAS Brisbane

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I’ve just posted a book review on Shadow Divers Exposed by Gary Gentile in the Book and DVD Reviews section of BlueBeyond.com.au. 
I’d appreciate any comments you might have…..
Book Review - Shadow Divers Exposed.
BlueBeyond Dive News and Blog | BlueBeyond.com.au | The Surface Interval Show podcast

The other great scuba diving podcast I listen to is PodDiver Radio.
In Episode 067 of PodDiver, Joe talks with Dr Richard Vann of Divers Alert Network on the topic of inert gas narcosis (among other great topics).
This was a great discussion, and Dr Vann explained narcosis in one of the simplest, most straightforward way’s I’ve […]

Some amazing photos from Gizo showing the destruction of the tsunami.
Tsunami Photos from Gizo | SolomOnline.com.
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Focussed on the excitement and adventure inherent in every aspect of diving, the fifth OZTeK Dive Exhibition and Conference, (held in Sydney, Australia, over the weekend of the 17th – 18th March 2007) has now firmly established its worth as a diving event of international significance.
From its official opening through to the post-show Gala Awards […]

The final event in a weekend given over to diving excitement, the OZTeK’07 Gala Awards dinner - held at Dockside, Darling Harbour, on Sunday 18th March – proved a sell-out social occasion given over to Prizes and Surprises.
Supported by Rolex Australia, sponsors of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society, (OW-USS) and with the OW-USS President and […]

Google has released a beta enhancement to their Google Maps service.
I’ve played around quickly with this, and have created a Map of Bass Point Dive Sites.  I’ve marked 7 or so of the commonly dived sites, and put brief annotations about them.
Enjoy.

Surface Interval Episode 017 (mp3 - 20MB - 58min)
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Welcome another excisting episode of The Surface Interval Show podcast.
In this episode, Bear and Des kick off with news in diving. This covers such topics as

We’ve heard extremely positive feedback about OzTek 2007 - well done to David Strike and Richard Taylor
Congratulations […]

The NSW State Emergency Service advises that:

People at the beach should leave the beach, and any areas exposed to surf, and move to higher ground.
People in boats in shallow water should immediately return to land, secure vessels and move to higher ground.
Boats and ships at sea should move to deep water and not return to […]

Strange days indeed.  On the back of the earlier post (on BlueBeyond.com.au) about the earthquake and tsunami hitting the Solomon Islands comes word that the NSW coastline has been closed, and Sydney Harbour is taking precautionary actions on the chance of a tsunami hitting us, sometime after 11.30am.  Thats about now.

All beaches in NSW and Queensland have […]