Kralendijk, April 16, 2007 – Bonaire’s premium dive resort Buddy Dive Resort is proud to announce the opening of its own on-premises Digital Photo Center as of mid May 2007.

Buddy’s Digital Photo Center will have a full line of rental products ranging from Olympus SP 350 digital camera’s with housings to digital SLR equipment. Video rental services and video production services will be available for Buddy’s guest to create souvenir vacation videos. For those who want to acquire or improve their photography skills there are digital photography lessons in several formats starting with a simple 1 hour class up to the PADI Digital Photographer Certification course.


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This June, the M/V Spree is returning to Key West/Stock Island to run Scuba Diving sport charters in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary North Reserve. The Spree stopped running sport charters in Dry Tortugas in 1991, and has been chartering in the Texas Flower Gardens since then.


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Dive Fest 2007: July 6th to 15th, 2007

What is Dive Fest?

Dive Fest is an annual event sponsored by the DWA to focus attention on the sport of scuba diving, to educate the public about Scuba Diving (as a tourism product and a career path), and to raise awareness about Dominica's stunning and unique marine environment.

The first Dive Fest was held in 1994 and while it has grown in popularity and activities over the past decade, there are several events that make up its core.


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Athens, - April, 15 2007 - DivePro - Info and Argonautic - Online have a 25% off deal for last minute deal divers! A unique LOB trip in Papua New Guinea. While the first trip just started, there are very few spaces still open for the "return" trip starting on April 27th.


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COZUMEL, Mexico Mar. 2007 – U.S. travelers can now plan vacations to the Mexican Caribbean destination of Cozumel with even greater ease with the introduction of American Eagle’s new direct Miami-to-Cozumel route.

The new Cozumel flights are scheduled to begin March 2, 2007 and will operate daily throughout the year between the popular island destination and Miami. Each flight will accommodate up to 64 passengers via American Eagle’s ATR72 turbo-prop aircraft.

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Utopia Village is an upscale adventure resort located on a quarter mile of pristine beach with abundant reef. We offer unlimited shore diving with beautiful walls just 50 feet from our shore. Our custom boats can take you to a selection of over 100 buoyed dive sites around the island.

Read full article: 'New Resort on Utila, Honduras Previewed'

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands - A rapid decline in the world's coral reefs could damage national economies that rely on underwater sea life for tourism revenue, researchers said.

Tourists spend billions of dollars each year on hotels and tours to experience the marine habitats in areas including the Caribbean, Australia and the Pacific islands.

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ZANZIBAR, Tanzania - Zanzibar, the spice island that has become a tropical tourist paradise, has banned plastic bags in an attempt to save its threatened ecology.

Anyone found producing, importing, using or selling plastic bags could face a fine of $2,000 (£1,120) and a jail sentence of up to 12 months, said Ali Juma, the government's director of environmental protection. "We have to put the environment above everything . . . Besides being an eyesore, plastic bags are very damaging to land and marine life and we are already threatened by the rapid pace of development," he said.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey - Some of the letters are comical (a man asking God to let him win the lottery, twice), others are heartbreaking (a distraught teen asking forgiveness for an abortion, an unwed mother pleading with God to make the baby's father marry her).

The letters - about 300 in all, sent to a New Jersey minister - ended up dumped in the ocean, most of them unopened.

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A group of scientists is questioning the worth of Al Gore's flying visit to New Zealand.

The former US vice-president will arrive for half a day next month to promote his film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. During the 80 minute movie, Gore argues for the need to take immediate action to combat climate change.

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(MALPELO ISLAND, Columbia) With lethargic grace, the hammerhead shark slices through the blue gloom. It flicks its T-shaped head this way and that, surveying its underwater domain with the surety of knowing that the food chain comes to an abrupt end in its mouth.

The shark cruises 20 feet beneath me as I snorkel through the turbulent waters surrounding the Pacific islet of Malpelo, a Colombian wildlife sanctuary and gem for scuba divers.

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Miami, FL (Scuba PRWire) Wed, 11-Oct-2006 - Learning Through Travel, a leader in developing awe-inspiring itineraries to exotic destinations and Fantastic Endeavors, an adventure travel company and dive training agency have partnered to sell group trips to Egypt to visit ancient temples and pyramids and to experience Red Sea diving.

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by Mike Smith

About 120 miles east of Albuquerque, on the eastern edge of the town of Santa Rosa, N.M., lies a tiny oval of blue water - a spring-fed sinkhole about 80 feet wide and 81 feet deep - known as the Blue Hole.

Sometime ago a group of scuba divers dove into the Blue Hole, eager to explore every nook and fissure of the smooth-walled sinkhole. After climbing out, they realized one of their divers had disappeared.

Read full article: 'Diver "travel" spawn rumors of underground waterway'

Watersport operators on the Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean, are reporting a drop in tourist numbers of up to 40 per cent with many locals attributing the decline to the death of Steve Irwin.

One of the the Cayman Islands's most popular tourist spots is Stingray City, a string of sandbars that's a haven for many southern stingrays.

Read full article: 'Irwin death impacts on Stingray City tourism'