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The Florida Dive Show's Annual Show in Palm Beach, Florida. The show features dive certification companies, dive equipment manufacturers, dive destinations, and educational programs. | FULL STORY |

New World Publications and ReefNet announce the immediate availability of Reef Fish Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas – Interactive Edition.
This multimedia software package is a comprehensive guide to reef fish identification for the Florida, Caribbean and Bahamas region. | FULL STORY |

Ocean Divers Recipient of the "Best Dive Shop in Florida" award. Ocean Divers is proud to announce that they are the recipient of the "Best Dive Shop in Florida" award from Florida Monthly Magazine. | FULL STORY |

Aqua Lung’s New Latitude XLT™ Features SURELOCK™ Advanced Mechanical Weight System: Form That Doesn’t Sacrifice Function.
Aqua Lung, the leader in scuba diving products, has introduced Sea Quest’s new trademarked and patented Latitude XLT™, a buoyancy compensator (BC) with the SURELOCK™ mechanical weight system that allows divers to drop their weights in a flash. | FULL STORY |

The 2nd Annual Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com International Photo & Video Competition.
Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com have teamed up again in association with Our World Underwater to celebrate the beauty and delicacy of the marine environment with their 2nd annual international underwater photography and video competition. | FULL STORY |

Matt Potenski, Shark Research Institute (SRI) marine biologist to lead the 2006 Kairos Company’s Whale shark expeditions in Tanzania on board M/V KAIROS.
Matt will be equipped with a teak spear gun and large casey-tag type anchor heads for both the satellite and visual ID tags to be set on Whale sharks identified in Tanzania. | FULL STORY |

Milan Aquarium Re-opens.
In April four thousand people visited L’Acquario Civico di Milano (Milan Aquarium) to celebrate the institution’s 100th anniversary and grand re-opening following three years of extensive renovations. | FULL STORY |

SanDisk Red-Sea 2006 Underwater Photo Competition. Update Prizes and give away Flash memory cards. 100 Flash cards of 1 Gigabyte for the first 100 enrollers – Free of charge, as a gift by Sandisk Corp. | FULL STORY |

Ocean acidity rising; NOAA research finds. A government research ship landed at Kodiak in late March with more news of a changing environment. The North Pacific Ocean is growing more acidic as it absorbs greater levels of carbon dioxide, according to researchers working on the R/V Thomas G. Thompson. | FULL STORY |

SSS (Sub-aquatic Safety Services) Recompression Chamber Network To Stop Accepting DAN Insurance. Important information for dive travelers relating to Chamber coverage and protection. | FULL STORY |

Legendary Diver Norine Rouse Dies at 80.
"If there's not an ocean in heaven, I'm not going." Norine Rouse, one of the country's first female diving instructors and a champion of sea turtle and reef protection off of Palm Beach County's shores, died Tuesday. She was 80. Norine Rouse swims with a loggerhead she named Robert. Mrs. Rouse tracked the turtle's return to local waters for 17 years. | FULL STORY |