Autumn Trade Shows: Diving Talks and the DEMA Show 2024

This fall’s two events could not be more different. The former is an intimate conference centred around presentations and discussions with leading speakers, as well as socialising and good food, while DEMA is a huge, intense trade show where you run around frantically for four days in an attempt to meet as many people as possible. Here is a summary.

Dive Industry News and Matters

Diving Talks

We will take them in chronological order. Diving Talks, held in late October, has quietly become one of my top favourites. This year’s event was the fourth in a row, and since I have reported extensively on the previous editions here in the magazine, which you can easily go back in the archive and fish out this time, I will limit myself to an update and not repeat all the premises and characteristics of this unique event.

Fossil bed in national forest in Nevada may have been breeding ground for ichthyosaurs

A study suggests that a fossil bed containing many 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs may have been a breeding ground.

3D-model image of the Shonisaurus popularis fossil bed at Quarry 2 in Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada. Fossilised bones have been color-coded, with each color corresponding to a different skeleton.
Wrecks & Archaeology

In the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada, there is a fossil bed in which many ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) have been found petrified in stone.

Over the years, there has been speculation that they had perished in a mass stranding incident or due to a nearby algal bloom. While these were possible, there had not been strong evidence to support these theories.

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