Artificial Reef plans to mimic the `lost city’. A scuba divers playground. January 30, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : OceanDiving , add a commentI had heard of this project nearly a year ago. It seems that Gary has been successful in getting this off the ground, or underneath the ocean as it where. It sometimes an emotive subject, the issue of scuba diving on wrecks on which people have lost their lives, and many people are against the idea of scuba diving on ‘war graves’. It now seems that this project will be funded by donars who wish for their remains to be incorporated into the Atlantis columns and balustrades, in which case many scuba divers will be diving on one large graveyard.
Gary Levine’s Atlantis Reef Project received final approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Miami-Dade’s Department of Environmental Resources Management earlier this month to construct the sprawling network of cement and bronze statues in 50 feet of water. Levine says construction should begin in March, with the first phase ready to receive scuba divers at the end of April. Levine said the reef will take three to five years to complete at a cost of between $3 million and $5 million.
”It will be five concentric circles, 900 feet in diameter, as big as three football fields,” Levine said. “You can see it from the air as a compass pointing due north. There will be 40 specific themed sculptures incorporating the elements you’d have in any city — arts, government, the military, theater.”
Great White Shark spotted in Hawaii during scuba diving trip January 5, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : OceanDiving , add a commentFrom Khon2 news.. Jimmy Hall has become a bit of a celebrity in Hawaii as he managed to get video of a chance encounter with a White Shark during a shark scuba diving tour. Great White sightings are extremely rare in Hawaii with only about half a dozen in the last eight years.
“I’m just really amazed at all of the interest from everywhere right now. It’s really kind of blown my mind,” says Hall.
Hall is using the opportunity to educate people about sharks.
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‘Shadow Divers’ Team to Tackle Belize’s Blue Hole; ‘Because it is there’ December 17, 2005
Posted by Andy Carroll in : OceanDiving, Trivia , add a commentThe Shadow Divers scuba diving team, from the TV show, Deep Sea Detectives, are in San Pedro and want to be the first to document a dive to the bottom of the world famous Blue Hole off the coast of Belize.
When asked �Why the Blue Hole?� Kohler replies, �because it�s there.� He added that the beauty and reputation of the Blue Hole were key factors for choosing this site. The fact that it is becoming so well known, yet no one has documented reaching the bottom were reasons for coming to Belize. There are rumors that Jacques Cousteau may have made it to the bottom in a mini submarine, but no proof has surfaced to substantiate this rumor.
No one knows how deep the hole is for certain. The team is prepared to go as deep as 500 feet. They are hoping that the bottom will be around 475 feet. The team made their first attempt on Tuesday. While descending to about 300 feet, a buoyancy chamber attached to the underwater housing that contained the high definition video camera imploded under the pressure. �It was like an explosion,� said Chatterton. Cameraman Kovac said the chamber was made from PVC pipe and a piece of shrapnel nearly hit him when it exploded. After the incident the camera was much heavier, forcing the cameraman to paddle and breath too quickly for the re-breather equipment to compensate. As a result, they decided to abort the mission and regroup to try it again another day.
