underwater work

Aruban authorities are dispatching a dive team to investigate a Pennsylvania couple's underwater photograph that may show skeletal remains of Natalee Holloway , an Alabama high school student who went missing on the Caribbean island five years ago. Ann Angela, a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office in Aruba, said she was not authorized to say when or where the dive would take place, except that it will happen "in the very near future." Officials likely will have the results of the preliminary

The problem is that the couple cannot say exactly where they took the picture. They cannot point to the exact location. But someone has now come forward who believes that they know the spot. So we are going to do a preliminary investigation, which means a dive team will be dispatched to that location.   -Ann Angela

 

WHEN Darren Brown's grandmother started to reveal fragmented memories of her father's World War I exploits on a British submarine, he became determined to put the pieces together. What followed was four years of amateur sleuthing through the war archives of four countries and the eventual discovery of the long-forgotten HMS E18 submarine in the Baltic Sea. A 93-year mystery of the fate of the 30 British men and three Russians on board was finally solved. The Melbourne airline engineer's great-grandf

When you start researching an individual, you take on their thoughts to a degree and the one thought I kept thinking was what actually happened to his mates   -Darren Brown

 

Dr Robert McAlister, 51, died in a yawning sinkhole near Mt Schank, about 12km south of Mt Gambier, last Saturday. His wife of 28 years said she felt for the fellow diver who was unable to save her husband's life. "Rob's diving buddy is a friend who has been through a terrible ordeal," Robyn McAlister said.  

The Department of Earth Sciences, Government of India, in its vision document, has envisaged creation of an underwater corridor in Poompuhar sea in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, to show the excavations done by National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) and Underwater Archaeology department of Tamil University. Delivering a lecture on the archaeological excavations done by NIOT at Poompuhar and Gulf of Cambay at a seminar on coastal history of Tamil Nadu and Archaeological excavations done in th  

Breitling has rejuvenated the design of the Superocean , the famous diver's timepiece it launched in 1957; Breitling had already established itself as the official supplier to world aviation. The Superocean is equipped with an ultra-readable dial, an armored glass and a monohull case watertight to a depth of 200 meters (660 ft) – a remarkable feat at that time. Originally designed to equip professional and military divers, the original model quickly gained a following among enthusiasts in the booming fiel  

 

 

WHEN Darren Brown's grandmother started to reveal fragmented memories of her father's World War I exploits on a British submarine, he became determined to put the pieces together. What followed was four years of amateur sleuthing through the war archives of four countries and the eventual discovery of the long-forgotten HMS E18 submarine in the Baltic Sea. A 93-year mystery of the fate of the 30 British men and three Russians on board was finally solved. The Melbourne airline engineer's great-grandf

When you start researching an individual, you take on their thoughts to a degree and the one thought I kept thinking was what actually happened to his mates   -Darren Brown

 

You've probably never heard their names or seen their faces. They are the unseen heroes of the Navy, suiting up in dive gear nearly every day, making their way into deep dark waters and dangerous crevices. They're humble, and they call what they do - the best job in the world.  

There's a whole different world under water, and the Piedmont Diving and Rescue Association is dedicated to helping people explore it. "(We're) all about showing you the other two-thirds of the planet," said Teresa Shaw, owner of dive shop Aquatic Pleasures in Kings Mountain and wife of PDRA president Calvin Shaw. The association is made up of individual and family divers predominately from North Carolina, southern Virginia and upper South Carolina. The organization owns three quarries, one of which