"All things we regard as the symbols of our world,...
...the highest mountains and furthest rain forests and deserts, steppes, coasts, all land animals and plants are in their mass much more insignificant than the almost endless expansion of the submarine ravines and mountains, the incomprehensible variety of organisms, which hides from our eyes under the surface of the oceans. This is the larger habitat on this planet"
Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole
FREE FALL: World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean's Blue Hole, which is the world's deepest blue hole (underwater sinkhole) and plunges 202 metres (663 ft) to the ocean floor, in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas. Filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier. This video is a FICTION and an ARTISTIC PROJECT. Edited by BLUENERY (c). Music: ARCHIVE - you make me feel.
Apnea Dive Computer
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In der aktuellen Ausgabe - März 2010 Vol.40(1) - des Journals "Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine" befindet sich ein detailierter technische Report über den ersten Apnea Tauchcomputer. Der Artikel lautet "A novel wearable apnea dive computer for continuous plethysmographic monitoring of oxygen saturation and heart rate". Hier der Abstract: The present paper describes the development of a novel wearable apnea dive computer. The device is able to measure and display oxygen saturation, heart rate, plethysmogram, depth, time and temperature during breath-holding dives. Beside the measurements, quasi in parallel, every data is stored in an external memory chip. A data processing software reads out the external memory chip and writes the processed data into a comma-separated values (CSV) file, so that it can be analysed by arbitrary applications like Microsoft Excel or Open Office. The housing is waterproof and pressure resistant to more than 20bar (breath-hold divers have already passed the 200m mark). It is small, lightweight, power aware and easy to use. Das Journal gibts hier...
'The Cove', about slaughtering dolphins
(07.03.2010) An Oscar-winning movie in the Category Best Documentary to wake us up like Ric O'Barry, the man who once upon the time trained dolphins for serials like 'Flipper'. Nowadays he is busy with animal protection and he succeeded to film the mass murder of dolphins in the japanese bay of Taji. Help to avoid the slaughtering of millions of dolphins. More on www.thecovemovie.com.
PX-15 Benjamin Franklin
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Nach 30 Tagen und elf Stunden tauchte am 14. August 1969 die Ben Franklin ca. 500 km südlich von Halifax (Nova Scotia) auf. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte das Boot im Golf-Strom ca. 2.400 km zurückgelegt. Dabei variierte die Tauchtiefe zwischen 200 und 600 m. mehr...
EU Fischereipolitik - Mitmach-Aktion
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Die Mitmach-Aktion der EU zur Reform der Fischerei-Politik läuft Ende Dezember 2009 aus. Greenpeace hat eine sehr informative Übersicht und einen Assistenten zur Aktion online gestellt. Zur entsprechenden EU-Webseite geht's hier.
Update 28.01.2010: Sollte irgend jemand Informationen über jegliche Effekte dieser Aktion haben, möge er uns dies bitte melden. Wir hoffen, es war keine Werbe-Aktion der EU, sondern eine ernstgemeinte Mitbestimmungsbitte.
Deep-Sea Gigantism
(15.11.2009) In zoology, deep-sea gigantism, also known as abyssal gigantism, is the tendency for species of crustaceans, invertebrates and other deep-sea-dwelling animals to display a larger size than their shallow-water counterparts. More on Wikipedia.
News from the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'
(22.10.2009) For three weeks in August, a group of graduate student researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego traveled a thousand miles west of California aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon to the North Pacific Ocean Gyre, otherwise known as the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' to investigate a convergence zone of plastic and other marine debris. Get more on their Homepage.
Software: Tide and Current Prediction Program
(05.10.2009) WXTide32 - a free Windows tide and current prediction program, which redicts tides from 1970 through 2037 with more than 9,500 stations worldwide. More on the WXTide32 homepage.
Cousteau's Conshelf Station
(01.10.2009) A very informative article about Cousteau's Conshelf constructions is published in the online magazine Beyondmag, 'Beyond The Blue'.watch the article...
Fly Dive
(11.09.2009) Fly Dive is a transporting device powered by pressurized air. The propulsion is produced by a pair of flexible wings. An imitation of a biological muscel moves the wings like a ray. More information (in german) on the homepage of Schindler-Design.
Diving Helmet from Aqua-Nautas
(28.08.2009) That seems to be a enjoyable thing. This diving helmet from the spanish company Aqua-Nautas receives its air from the water surface. more...
Trans-Atlantic Rowing Race 2009
(05.08.2009) It has nothing to do with the underwater world, but it is too interesting to be neglected. The Atlantic Rowing Race starts on Sunday 6th December 2009. The premier event in ocean rawing. This trans-Atlantic (!) race starts from La Gomara, Canary Islands, and concludes in the idillic English Harbour, Antigua. Information are available from the organizer 'Woodvale Challenge'.
Decompression Algorithms
On 28th of August 2009 Benjamin will lecture on the 35. int. conference on diving and hyperbaric medicine in Aberdeen/Scotland together with his collegues on the subject of the 'Experimental platform for studies on VPM and Bühlmann decompression algorithms'. Good luck from the whole UWPO team.
IQ's Ray-Board
(16.07.2009) This is the ultimate toy for all freedivers and snorklers. Steer with Gordian Gosch's Ray Board through the water while being dragged behind a boat. The board is distributed by IQ. more...
UWPO Redesigned
UnderwaterPromotion.com is just redesigned.Therefore there may be some errors on the site. You can access the old page right here. Your UWPO-Team
Surprise at the turkish coast
What a small world: While making holidays in Turkey Mart met the manager of Magic Life's Scuba section (Magic Divers) Andreas Wys, who just arrived from Sharm El Sheikh, on a reef near Beldibi. Andreas used the opportunity to introduce the new UEMIS diving computer. More about the 'Scuba Diver Assistant' right here
Video from 7700m depth
It took hours until the camera reached the 7700m bottom of the Pacific ocean. The video shows a school of snail fish moving very lively under a pressure of 8000kg/m2. Videos and Details on Spiegel Online...
Japanese Spider Crab
One of our all-time-favourites: the japanese spider crab meisures 4m in diameter and is, of course, an endangered species. Get all information on Wikipedia.com...
Marine Science introduction course
Genny Anderson's webpage 'Marine Science' is a distance learning course for beginning college students. It is an introduction to oceanography and marine biology. It covers ocean properties, marine ecology of tropical, polar and temperate and deep-sea regions, as well as some marine environmental concerns.. more...
1958 Crossing the north pole... underwater
'On 5th of August 1958 the american submarine "Nautilus" reached surface after crossing the northpole under the ice. It took 96 hours and 3400 km, but the race for the dominance in marine world had just begun.
On 28th of August 2009 Benjamin will lecture on the 
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