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Brazil Atlantic (South America coastal)At Arraial do Cabo. Rio de Janeiro
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Ecuador PacificHere you can see from White tip, Hammer head, Silky and Galapagos Sharks, Pacific Mantas, Eagle rays, Sea Turtles, tunas, King Angels, etc., etc.
Strong Currents, reach by liveaborad. Excellent Dive site
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Brazil Atlantic (South)A huge reef to be explored.
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United States PacificOld navy mooring site. Large concrete blocks. Huge old anchors. Tons of great macro stuff, all in a small geographic area. Great photo site.
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Iran (Islamic Republic of) Caspian SeaQESHM ISLAND (Jazira-ye Qešm, Ar. Jazira-al-Ṭawila); the largest island (ca. 122 km long, 18 km wide on average, 1,445 sq km) in the Persian Gulf, about 22 km south of Bandar-e ʿAbbās (q.v.). Separated from the mainland by the straits of Ḵurān (Clarence Strait), Qeshm runs virtually parallel to the Persian coast between Bandar-e ʿAbbās in the east and Bandar-(e) Lenga in the west (Sailing directions for the Persian Gulf, p. 123; Handbuch des Persischen Golfs, p. 155).
The toponomy of the island has varied greatly over time. Nearchus referred to an island near the mouth of the Persian Gulf as Oaracta (e.g., Geog. 16.3.7; Pliny, Natural History 6.98), where, in Arrian’s account, Nearchus was shown the tomb of Erythras (Goukowsky, p. 120), after whom the Erythraean Sea was thought to have been named (Arrian, Indica 27; cf. Oracta, Ooracta, Doracta). Portuguese sources refer to the island as Queiximi/ Queixome /Queixume (Tomaschek, p. 48; cf. Quesomo in Jean de Thévenot, and the Kichmichs of Sir John Chardin [Curzon, II, p. 410]), in which we easily recognize Qeshm. They also mention Broco/Boroch/Beroho/Brocto (Tomaschek, p. 48), which scholars have long (e.g., d’Anville, p. 149; Stein) identified with Greek Oaracta. (Curzon, II, p. 410, noted a village called “Brukth/Urukth” on Qeshm).
The Aḵbār al-Ṣin wa’l-Hend (851 CE) mentions the island of Abarkāwān (see ABARKĀVĀN) in the eastern Persian Gulf, between Sirāf and Muscat (Sauvaget, p. 7). This is identical to the island of Bani Kāwān, assigned by Abu Esḥāq Eṣṭaḵri to the district of Ardašir-ḵorra (q.v.; Eṣṭaḵri, pp. 106-7), also known to Eṣṭaḵri, Masʿudi and Ebn Ḥawqal as Lāft, (Schwarz, p. 82, n. 13). For Yāqut (Schwarz, p. 83) the isles of Kāwān and Lāft (or Lāfet) were one and the same; and Lāft survives as the name of the second largest town, historically, on Qeshm (Curzon, II, p. 411). According to Balāḏori, Abarkāwān/Qeshm was reckoned part of Kermān, rather than Fārs, prior to the Islamic conquest, a point made plausible by the fact that when ʿOṯmān b. al-ʿAṣ landed there at the beginning of the Islamic conquest, he encountered a margrave of Kermān (Schwarz, p. 83). Later lexicographers explained Abarkāwān as a corruption of Jazira-ye gāvān, (cow island); this is a folk etymology, which is reflected in Ṭabari’s story of a commander in Khorasan who accused his soldiers of having ridden only cattle and donkeys on the isle of Banu Kāwān before he had turned them into competent cavalrymen (Schwarz, p. 83). Ebn Ḵordāḏbeh identified the island of Banu Kāwān as a station between Kish and Hormuz on the sea-route to India and China and described its inhabitants as belonging to the ʿEbādi sect (Sprenger, p. 79; Schwarz, p. 83).
In 1301, the ruler of Hormuz, Bahāʾ-al-Din Ayāz, moved his court and a large portion of his population to Qeshm following a Tartar attack (Piacentini, p. 112; Wilson, p. 104). From this period onward the island was an important dependency of the Kingdom of Hormuz, often providing drinking water to Hormuz itself (Steensgaard, pp. 195, 297). When the king of Hormuz, Qoṭb-al-Din Tahamtan III Firuz Shah, abdicated in favor of his son, Ṣaif-al-Din (1417-36) in 1417, he retired to Qeshm (Piacentini, p. 99). Qeshm’s status as a major Hormuzi mercantile center is shown by the fact that, in late September1552, the Turkish commander Piri Reʾis raided it, seizing “a great quantity of goods, of gold and silver, and of cash … the richest prize that could be found in all the world,” according to a contemporary account (Özbaran, p. 81; Ökte, p. 157).
In January 1619, Ruy Freire de Andrade left Lisbon for the Persian Gulf with orders to disperse the English, who had established a factory at Jāsk in 1616 (Boxer, p. 58), and to put pressure on the Persians, in part by dislodging the Persian garrison on Qeshm and building a Portuguese fort there (Boxer, p. 71; Slot, p. 107; Steensgaard, p. 312). Two thousand Portuguese soldiers, supported by 1,000 Hormuzi t
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Italy Tyrrhenian Sea A BIG SPERMWHALE CAPTURED IN FORBIDDEN NETS WE LIBERATED HIM more info about Lipari Island including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Italy Tyrrhenian SeaDramatic Rescue of an Entangled Sperm Whale
In the summer of 1981, Alberto Romeo, his wife Lucia and several members of their underwater association Gruppo Ricercatori ed Operatori Subacquei G.R.O.SUB. set out to observe and photograph dolphins and whales and eggs of giant squid in the southern Mediterranean Sea. Their destination was the 6,500-foot (2000-meter) -deep waters near the Eolie Archipelago between Lipari and Salina Islands.
"The sun was shinning, the sea quiet, no wind" . Then they received a radio message that a whale was trapped in a fishing net nearby and proceeded to investigate. Several hours later they found a 60-foot (18 meter) -long sperm whale caught in an illegal drift net used to catch marlin. "The sperm whale was still breathing! So we immediately entered the water and saw massive injuries to his head," said Romeo. The team, familiar with the need for great caution when approaching a whale, was able to get close enough to the animal and begin to cut away the net while photographers captured the entire event. "He looked at us and we felt that he was understanding that we were saving him!"
As they removed the net from the whale's head his jaws opened for the first time in a long while. "We felt that he understood that we were his friends," commented Romeo. However, they became concerned that the whale's bleeding from its wounds would soon attract sharks. Fortunately, no predators appeared and after removing nearly all of the net, the whale finally began to swim away. "After a few meters and only a little piece of net still attached to its tail he turned to us to say 'thank you' and as silent as we found him, he slowly swam away and out of our sight."
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Sri Lanka Indian OceanShot whilst off the coast of Sri Lanka
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Maldives Indian OceanMany waleshark
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Honduras Caribbean SeaCoco View resort is an underwater photographers dream destination. Fantastic shore diving right out the back door, easy access to boats/equipment, and most important; multiple large camera dunk tanks.
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Tanzania Indian OceanGood
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Honduras Caribbean SeaExcellent dive location, protected marine park.
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Tanzania Indian OceanVery good dive side
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Ecuador PacificMy Favorite Dive Site as of now. HUGE!!!!!
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AustraliaOn the eastern side of the island out from Albany. Depth to 40m.
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Marshall Islands PacificThis little wreck has the most amazing anemone and pink anemonefish on it. The Anemone has been there for at least 7 years and just continues to grow. At about 90' this is a great first dive and picture opportunity!
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Costa Rica Pacific4000 words is not enough to discribe Coco's Island. The most beautifull place on earth above and underwater. If I look at my footage I Hammerheads; White-tips reefsharks and Marbled Rays in one shot. Just amazing. A must see before 'you're last journey'!
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United States PacificThe ship is slowly settling into itself.
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Peru Pacificárea entre Cabo Blanco y Cancas, en especial Punta Sal. Litoral tropical del Peru, con gran diversidad y color. Actualmente dificil encontrar peces grandes por sobreexplotación, especialmente por cazadores submarino. Por favor, si bucean en el norte del Perú, NO CAZAR!!, no destruyan este paraiso.
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Peru PacificTiene el litoral con mayor diversidad de habitats de la costa peruana bañada por la Corriente Peruana (Humboldt). Gran catidad de islas, praderas de kelp, lobos marinos, pinguinos, con suerte ballenas. Vean articulo en mi pagina web:
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