SCUBA News - #224 - February 2019

SCUBA News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) Issue 224 - February 2019 https://www.scubatravel.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to SCUBA News - I hope you find it useful. You can download a pdf version of SCUBA News here. Contents: What's new at SCUBA Travel? Featured Liveaboard - Solar Eclipse in Philippines Creature of the Month: Fiveline Cardinalfish Diving news from around the World What's New at SCUBA Travel? Komodo Incredible diving in Komodo - guaranteed sharks, mantas, turtles plus beautiful macro and thrilling currents. Read More… Malpelo - as good as Galapagos? Malpelo is a small, barren island just 8 sq km. Here hammerhead and other sharks congregate. This is not a trip for beginners but is truly a world-class dive site. Read More… World's best wreck dives Revealed - the top ten wreck dives as voted for by our readers. Read More… Featured Liveaboard - Flying Dolphin III Solar Eclipse in the Philippines Don't miss the unique opportunity to spot the Solar Eclipse on the Flying Dolphin III catarmaran, and discover if whales and dolphins really do come to the surface to see what's going on when the sky goes dark. Learn More… Creature of the Month: Fiveline Cardinalfish, Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus Unlike many other cardinal fish this species is active by both day and night (others are only active at night). It lives from 3 m down to 40 m in the Red Sea and elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific. When threatened it shelters in sea urchins or coral. Carnivorous, they have small, very sharp teeth for feeding on small crustaceans and fishes. The male fiveline cardinalfish carries the eggs or larvae of its young in its mouth: mouth-brooding. It must go without food for quite some time when doing so. Every three minutes the fish will open its mouth and move the eggs to keep them aerated. So if you see a cardinal fish with a fat chin which may be holding eggs - keep your eye on it for a few minutes to be sure and to maybe grab a photo opportunity. Class: Actinopterygii > Order: Perciformes > Family: Apongonidae Photo by Jill Studholme. Taken on Ben el Gabel, Hurghada. More Creatures of the Months... Diving News From Around the World Our round up of the best underwater news stories of the past month. For breaking news see our Twitter page or RSS feed Guam proposes banning fishing with the use of SCUBA gear New bill proposes to ban fishing with the use of SCUBA equipment in hopes of protecting and preserving reef fish - the numbers of which are "declining at an alarming rate". Migrating blue whales rely on memory to find prey Blue whales reach their massive size by relying on their exceptional memories to find historically productive feeding sites rather than responding in real time to emerging prey patches - which could cause them problems if climate change results in prey moving elsewhere. Plastics leading to reproductive problems for marine animals Scientists say some marine animals with high levels of pollutants are failing to calve Proximity to land determines how coral reef communities respond to climate change events Location, location, location: marine wildlife that live amongst the coral are affected differently by devastating climate change events, depending on how close to the mainland they are found. Seals to keep watch on remote Antarctic glacier Two species of seals will help keep watch on a huge glacier in West Antarctica that is at risk of collapse. How to save a seabird Best method is streamer lines which has reduced seabird bycatch in Alaska's longline fisheries has been reduced by upto 90 percent, saving thousands of birds per year including hundreds of albatrosses. Researchers also found that fewer than 2 percent of the 300 vessels researchers analysed accounted for 46 to 78 percent of the bycatch. Streets, Seas and Stars: Nightmares of Pollution Industry, construction and pollution has ravaged the planet exponentially in the last fifty years, so much so that we are experiencing the most dramatic change since the ice age. LiveAboard.com is Hiring Are you a scuba diver with a passion for partnership marketing or content management? You could be just the person LiveAboard.com are looking for. SCUBA News is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. This means we are happy for you to reuse our material for both commercial and non-commercial use as long as you: credit the name of the author, link back to the SCUBA Travel website and say if you have made any changes. Some of the photos though, might be copyright the photographer. If in doubt please get in touch. Photo credits: Tim Nicholson, Jill Studholme, Nick Hopgood, Dan Shapiro Previous editions of SCUBA News are archived at https://www.scubatravel.co.uk/news.html SUBSCRIBING AND UNSUBSCRIBING Visit Unsubscribe and add or remove your e-mail address. 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