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Airport security queues at London’s Heathrow Airport could soon be less stressful for passengers. Upon the introduction of new 3D scanners, passengers will be able to keep liquids and laptops in their hand baggage.
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Deep-pocketed tourists waiting to explore the 20th century’s most famous maritime wreck will have to wait a little longer. American submersible company OceanGate has pushed back diving expeditions to the Titanic wreck site to 2019.
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Yes, most people do their homework before traveling to a foreign country, but mistakes happen. While getting a visa is not an insignificant detail and forgetting about it can cancel your whole trip, there are ways to get one last minute.
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In today’s hectic world, convenience seems to outweigh consequence, especially with regards to mobile devices. Using free public Wi-Fi comes with serious security risks, yet surveys indicate the overwhelming majority of people do it anyway.
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Scuba diving from a kayak is the perfect way to access reefs that are not otherwise accessible from land. The sites may be situated under steep cliffs or too far offshore for a surface swim.
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With the advent of PADI’s recreational closed circuit rebreather (CCR) dive programmes announced in late 2011, it was anticipated that there would be a tidal wave of interest by the diving public learning on rebreathers to capitalise on the advant
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According to researchers, the global system used to coordinate travel bookings between airlines, travel agents and price comparison websites is woefully insecure.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones has now been banned onboard airlines worldwide, following a series of widely publicised incidents where the phone's batteries combusted causing fires.
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The goal is to help preserve the state's shipwrecks by giving divers another option besides hooking a line directly onto the wreck, as is customary now.
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The SWT – which receives funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation – has also confirmed that Scotland's first snorkel trail has been created in the north west Highlands. The idea is that the snorkel trail is self-led.
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All divers intending to dive within Guernsey's 12-mile limit—both commercial and recreational divers—who subsequently require the use of the local hyperbaric chamber, will be charged GB£30,000 per treatment by the States of Guernsey.1 I
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Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine analyzed 2,028 antimalarials from Tanzania and Cambodia.
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In all honesty, there is always something happening somewhere in the world that may give us pause in our travel planning and the fear, real or imagined, of bumping into it should not drive us into a locked room in our basement.
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I have been an Olympus DSLR user for many years. I continued to use the Olympus E-620 after the camera was discontinued and the system was no longer supported.
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