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Changes in Lake Constance zooplankton. On 21 November 2024, from 17:00 to 18:00, PD Dr Dietmar Straile from the Limnological Institute of the University of Konstanz will give a lecture on ‘Changes in Lake Constance zooplankton during the last century’.
18 divers from Mayenne rescued from sinking vessel in Egypt. During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the boat carrying a group of divers from the Laval club sank in the Red Sea off the Egyptian coast. Fortunately, all the occupants of the boat are reported to have escaped unharmed.
Special tour on the M/Y Omneia Spirit. From 22 May 2025 to 29 May 2025, the M/Y Omneia Spirit will embark on a rebreather safari. This tour will focus on: Diving with like-minded people, exchanging experiences and underwater tranquillity. Silvana Nies, instructor trainer, will be on board. If you wish, she will be happy to give you tips in advance and on board.
Dive centres in El Hierro and Port Ghalib to close at the end of November. The management of Extra Divers announces the closure of two dive centres - the bases in El Hierro and Port Ghalib. In El Hierro, the long-standing dive centre manager Dula is taking her well-deserved retirement; unfortunately, no successor has been found.
Greenland in summer? Greenland in August! Summer in Greenland is short, usually only two months, but the perfect time to experience the beauty of the icebergs and glaciers of the region in south-east Greenland. This year, summer even arrived a good two weeks later. In mid-July, there was still frost in the fjord and the seawater was partially frozen. Now, in mid-August, it is ‘high summer’ here and the daytime temperatures are in double figures.
It's not words that make heroes, but deeds! At the InterDive diving- and travel- trade fair in Friedrichshafen, the marine conservation organisation OCEAN HEROES, under the sponsorship of SSI International, the magazine TAUCHEN and the scuba-diving portal Taucher.Net, honoured seven very special people.
Team Baltictech discovers new wreck: Recently, the Baltictech team made a remarkable find – the wreck of the Ilse, a Swedish cargo steamer lying in the Baltic Sea just north of Władysławowo. Surprisingly intact, with the inscription ‘ILSE 1929’ still glowing on the hull, this discovery is a special testament to the history that can be found at the bottom of the sea.
According to the Guardian, the sea turtle Caretta caretta (loggerhead turtle) seems to be spreading again in Greece, as it has in Italy. On Sekania beach on the island of Zakynthos, also known as the largest “maternity ward” in the Mediterranean for this species of turtle, there are not only a record number of nests this year, at 1,200, but also a particularly high number of hatchlings that have survived, the newspaper quoted a representative of the WWF as saying.
A citizen science project: For a good year now, the citizen science project Dive4Diadema has been searching for the last surviving diadem urchins in the Red Sea. (We reported on this...). The aim is to find out more about the sudden disappearance of this important sea urchin species, which plays a central role as an algae eater on coral reefs. Diadema urchins eat algae from the corals, creating space for them to grow. You can actively help by using an app to report sightings of the sea urchins.