Thailand has been called the Land of Smiles but few are smiling here now as the political turmoil builds daily. Tour operators are already writing off this year’s peak season and worrying about the next. Since anti-government protesters seized Bangkok?s Government House in August, tourism arrivals have fallen precipitously with diving operators being hard hit.
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The latest issue of SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) is now freely available on-line. With diving news and notes on the Maldives, Thailand, black coral, SCUBA bestsellers, etc.
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Gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in the atmosphere last year, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Scientists have warned that high atmospheric levels of radiation-trapping greenhouse gases — emitted by factories, cars, and in agriculture — will lead to rising sea levels, big storms, and more heatwaves and droughts.
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A toxic pesticide in paints used on the outside of ships has been banned in the Egyptian Red Sea.
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A sea slug that gains the ability to turn sunlight into energy from the algae it eats is arguably the first functional plant-animal hybrid found in nature
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A trick that exploits temperature differences in the sea could supply the world with cheap green power.
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Researchers at Portsmouth University and the US Coast Guard are working together to develop a computer model that will predict how long someone will survive when lost at sea. The Search and Rescue Survival Model has been designed to take the pressure off rescuers making difficult decisions about when a search and rescue mission should be stopped.
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A 2million marine research vessel has been donated by the EU to scientists working in the Egyptian Red Sea.
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Shortfin mako sharks can shoot through the ocean at up to 50 miles per hour (80 kilometres an hour). Now a trick that helps them to reach such speeds has been discovered - the sharks can raise their scales to create tiny wells across the surface of their skin, reducing drag like the dimples on a golf ball. Tiny vortices or whirlpools formed within the cavities between the scales. These vortices form a kind of “buffer layer” between the skin’s surface and the fast moving fluid, preventing a turbulent wake from forming behind the shark.
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The main ship in Japan’s whaling fleet set out for the Antarctic on Monday for its first hunt in the region since limping home with just over half its planned catch in April following clashes with militant anti-whaling activists, environmentalist group Greenpeace said.
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