X-Ray Mag

December 2018

Alan King

A tribute to Alan King

5 years ago By Rosemary E Lunn

Alan was a friendly colleague who loved being outside and talking to anyone. As a child, he developed the skill of always finding something of common interest to discuss with anyone he met, and he carried this through into his adult life. Alan was able to strike up a conversation about anything with anyone. Alan learned to scuba dive in 1970 when he joined the Leicester Underwater Exploration Club. Two years later, he became a commercial diver—a high-risk career in the early '70s—with his "office" primarily being the North Sea exploration rigs.

The Octopus, a Friend

Words
Francesco Turano
Images
Francesco Turano
Common octopus. Photo by Francesco Turano.
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Talking about this animal is simply a pleasure, almost as much as meeting it and relating to it underwater. It is satisfying to spend some time putting my thoughts into words about the octopus, as I am a diver in love with this extraordinary creature—a mollusc that reasons.

Titan, a privately-owned deep diving 5-person submersible, reaches 4000m

5 years ago By Main minion

EVERETT, WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 17, 2018 - OceanGate Inc., a provider of manned submersible services, announced OceanGate CEO, Stockton Rush, successfully piloted the world’s only privately-owned deep diving 5-person submersible, Titan, on a solo 4,000 meter dive (over two miles deep). Rush joins James Cameron as only the second person in history to complete a solo dive to this depth.

The World’s Largest Exotic SCUBA Travel Auction – and it’s for Charity!

5 years ago By Matthew Meier

Sea Save Foundation, a California non-profit, is hosting an online auction of 58 of the most exclusive SCUBA diving and ocean-inspired prizes. Now in its 10th Year, Sea Save is going above and beyond to gift ocean-lovers with a once-in-a-lifetime SCUBA adventure. Proceeds from the auction will support the foundation in its mission to conserve and protect oceans through innovative education, engaged advocacy, and impactful action. www.Auction.Seasave.Org

Seeking the Dugong in Marsa Alam

Words
Kate Jonker
Images
Kate Jonker
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Many years ago, whilst learning to scuba dive, I came across an article on manatees and dugongs. I was entranced. Not only were they cute, according to the article, they loved hugging divers, and once they held on to you, they did not want to let you go. The image of this human-hugging, underwater teddy bear remained with me and I was determined that one day, I would find one and hug it.

Turtle Spectacular

5 years ago By Main minion

Change things up by Captain Trevor Jackson

12 - 19 November 2018 Turtle Spectacular - JC from Mike Ball Dive Expeditions on Vimeo.

At four that afternoon we were floating above the most stunning garden of plate corals in the history of plate corals. A short 30 second swim had us standing on the gleaming white sand of a pristine cay, then back into the green and blue for more untouched beauty. I remember thinking, almost out loud… ‘the future of our company lies here, in places like this, in doing the out of the ordinary, in doing more than simply providing the best diving in the world’. The following day really drove the point home.

Prince Albert II of Monaco is presenting the “ocean tribute” Award

5 years ago By Main minion

His first visit to boot Düsseldorf was in 1993 – incognito with his father Rainier III, to prepare the partnership between Monaco and boot 1994. In 1994, father and son Grimaldi officially opened the 25th boot as representatives of their Principality. At the time, the Prince was an active athlete as a bobsleigh pilot in the Monacan team and reported to Günter Jauch about the preparations his team was making for the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer / Norway as a celebrity guest on the ZDF-Sportstudio television programme at boot 1994.