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Dive New Zealand / Dive Pacific magazine August/September 2004 issue 82

FEATURES: NEW ZEALAND'S NORTHERN WRECK TOUR - SIX OF THE BEST 'I was enjoying the sensation of drifting through the bowels of a ship in a place ships weren't designed to be - at the bottom of the sea!'; BLACK CORAL 'That boulder slope was dotted with dozens of black coral trees - at lest 50 within our field if view!'; DEADLY DIVES 'Dorothea, the local newspapers like to call it the catalogue of death and it registers 21 diving fatalities within the last 10 years'; BOAT TEST 'Surtees 6.7m sportfishere hardtop'; THE BIGGEST FISH 'although the whale shark appeared to be meandering and using only small sweeps of its two metre tall tail, this propulsion proved very difficult to match'; LADY ELLIOT ISLAND 'Within these waters lie the answers to thousands of unknown questions about thousands of little known animals, hundreds of new records, an entire exploration of new species and perhaps even a whole new order of sea creatures' (part one); THE WALINDI GIRLS 'The most difficult thing about diving in Walindi is the decision making - whether to dive deep or shallow, swim to the left or the right, to shoot wide angle or macro. Every site seems to involve too many choices'; TRIPLEFINS ARE THE HIDDEN JEWELS OF THE REEF 'Cheeky and endearing blenny-like species that surprisingly form the dominant component of New Zealand's shallow reef fish fauna'; THREE KINGS 'Three Kings Kingi - and t hey really are big up here, commonly around 30-40kgs'; DRY SUITS 'why choose to dive in a dry suit even in temperate waters? It is best summed up in one word 'comfort'. We take a look at what's in the marketplace'; REGULAR COLUMNS: DIVING THE WEB; EYE ON THE SEA' FISHING WITH BRUCE DUNCAN; DIVING MEDICINE; SPINELESS MAJORITY; INCIDENT INSIGHTS; PHOTOGRAPHY, PRODUCT NEWS; TRAINING; SPEARFISHING; TRAVEL; FREEDIVING.

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