Scuba Obsessed

Once again we have a backload of episodes we have neglicted to upload. They are coming, but we wanted to start with the freshes ones first. They taste better.

http://www.undercurrent.org/elist/?m=757&uid=d0ae638873eb6a274c59ae5b5d33a98c&p=view&pi=ViewBrowserPlugin

Tick a Box and Save a Life. Twenty-two people die every day in the United States waiting for a kidney transplant, most waiting 7 to 9 years. For some, this may be an unpleasant subject, but thousands of people could live many years if they could get the organs of a healthy deceased person. Divers are generally healthy folks who, if they, unfortunately, have a fatal diving accident, would enable others to carry on. Please click here to understand how, someday, even if it’s many, many years from now, you might contribute to someone else’s future. - Via Undercurrent

Removal of Georgia shipwreck delayed again over anchor issue

https://www.timesleaderonline.com/news/business/2020/10/removal-of-georgia-shipwreck-delayed-again-over-anchor-issue/

Head-turning crane spurs dive into shipwreck history

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/os-fe-joy-wallace-dickinson-20201004-m5kq3bljlnhvpp4cd7c5sr3tje-story.html?outputType=amp

Indonesia Adopts Guidelines to Make Dive Safer During Pandemic

https://jakartaglobe.id/lifestyle/indonesia-adopts-guidelines-to-make-dive-safer-during-pandemic

How fish and other aquatic species utilize Great Lakes shipwrecks

Shipwreck Life: How fish and other aquatic species utilize Great Lakes shipwrecks

Swimming Squid Robot

https://futurism.com/the-byte/swimming-squid-robot-looks-amazing

Galapagos Marine Life in Danger. These are lights from the 265-vessel Chinese fishing fleet that threatens the Galapagos. The boats are now operating at the edge of the protected marine reserve taking fish and sharks from the major migration route between Cocos and Malpelo, and the world is up in arms about it. The fleet of Chinese “ghost ships” were falsely reporting their location within New Zealand waters while they fished off the Galapagos Islands. Six of the fleet are transmitting false information via their Automatic Identification System transponders. The Ecuadorian Navy has deployed its limited fleet to protecting the reserve but with little hope of stopping the fishing and protecting the animals traveling past. This includes the largest female whale sharks In 2018, scientists equipped with Thruster units on their scuba tanks, managed to make ultra-sound recordings on the distended bellies of three of these pregnant giants, aiming to unravel one of the ocean’s great mysteries -- where do they give birth? But, more research is needed to untangle the significance of the area to whale shark reproduction. “Unchecked Chinese fishing just on the edge of the protected zone is ruining Ecuador’s efforts to protect marine life in the Galápagos,” the former Quito mayor Roque Sevilla has said. ( BBC)

**Monster ghost net removed from popular Plymouth reef**

**Sarasota Aquarium Breeds Coral For The First Time**

**San Diego boat rental business booming amid coronavirus pandemic**

**Art shop makes product out of scuba diving tanks**

**ECU students document shipwreck in the Tar River**

**Got lake weeds? Maybe scuba divers are your solution**

**Scuba diver stumbles across ancient artefacts off Spain's Costa Blanca**

**Albany's Elvie shipwreck faces destruction almost 100 years after running aground**

**Missing piece of statue from 305-year-old Spanish shipwreck recovered**

**New lakebed mapping tool to assist in collaboration, efficiency**

**The Geneinno S2 is an ultra-portable underwater electric scooter**

**U.S. Perdue questions decision on Golden Ray delay**

**Coral skeletons crafted from 3D-printed calcium carbonate could restore damaged reefs**

**The Museum of Underwater Art in the Great Barrier Reef Welcomed Its First Visitors**

**Treasures of Sinan shipwreck unveiled online**

**1st intact evidence of Incas' underwater ritual offerings found in a lake in the Andes**

**Lady Michigan boat tours back**

**Avatar 2 producer shows what the underwater transport will look like**

A Plastic Pandemic. A glut of discarded single-use masks and gloves is washing up on shorelines and littering the seabed. Conservationists have warned that the coronavirus pandemic could spark a surge in ocean pollution -- adding to a glut of plastic waste that already threatens marine life -- after finding disposable masks floating like jellyfish and waterlogged latex gloves scattered across sea beds. Divers have found “Covid waste” -- dozens of gloves, masks, and bottles of hand sanitizer -- beneath the waves of the Mediterranean, mixed with the usual litter of disposable cups and aluminum cans. Wear a mask, but be careful with its disposal. 129 billion facemasks are disposed of every month. ( The Guardian/BBC)

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-53287940/coronavirus-the-masks-you-throw-away-could-end-up-killing-a-whale

Face Masks from Recycled Ocean Plastic. PADI has partnered with sportswear company Rash'R to make face masks out of plastic recovered from the ocean. Each mask is sold with five replacement filters (at $20.40). These PADI masks are a sustainable alternative to the N95 respirator masks reserved for front line workers. Children's masks are available too. So far, 1,300 pounds of ocean plastic have been recycled into masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. https://rashr.com/collections/face-masks-by-rashr

Microplastics on the Ocean Floor

Highest Microplastic Concentration Found Deep Down On Ocean Floor

Sleeping microbes wake up after 100 million years buried under the seafloor

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sleeping-microbes-wake-up-after-100-million-years-buried-under-the-seafloor/ar-BB17n5yA?ocid=spartandhp

The Vanishing Sharks of South Africa. Those operating cage diving from Cape Town are concerned that this year no great white sharks have been seen -- not a single one. Their absence could be the most dramatic environmental change there in 20 years. Not long ago the sheer numbers gathering around one island off the stunning curve of sand just east of the Cape of Good Hope made it the great white capital of the world. Longline fishing, pollution, the arrival of orcas – what’s causing these crowd-drawing sharks to shun these waters?

Great white vanishing act: where have South Africa's famous sharks gone?

A Tokyo Aquarium Needs You to FaceTime Their Shy Eels Right Now

https://www.sciencealert.com/tokyo-aquarium-needs-your-help-reminding-their-eels-to-not-fear-humans

Local scuba divers explore Fall River

https://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/rexburg/local-scuba-divers-explore-fall-river/article_842384a9-54d0-5213-8c45-2b35960f9713.html

Can you beat the bog?

https://www.visitwales.com/en-us/things-do/events/sport/can-you-beat-bog