| Bubbles by the quayside grew as a pair of midweek divers surfaced and exited the water. |
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| Scuba divers and snorkelers explore historic shipwrecks and artificial reefs. |
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| A police manhunt has been launched, with divers dredging a reservoir in Belfast. |
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| Organised divers keep checking the weather forecasts and have a good understanding of tide tables. |
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| Head divemaster Osmond gave a short orientation, emphasizing that divers were responsible for their own profiles. |
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| He has a major grumble about the way in which dive guides insist on shepherding divers around. |
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| Scuba divers came in droves with photographers, environmentalists, surfers, business owners and marine scientists. |
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| His body was recovered last Saturday by police divers 200 metres upstream from Clifton Bridge, after it was spotted by a passing jet-skier. |
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| A series of dive-marshalling sheets on the noticeboard ensures that no more than 20 divers are in the water at a time. |
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| Later, in Belize, we were leading a group of tourist divers along the outer barrier reef at a dive site called Abyss, close to South Water Caye. |
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| The dive sites are pristine, with fewer divers and an increased chance of seeing large pelagics. |
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| Large batfishes look at divers with much the same regard as divers look at them. |
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| Some fishing is still permitted around the islands, but divers and naturalists are battling for a total ban. |
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| Black-clad masked gunmen scale large oil-storage tanks, while divers are positioned in a boat offshore. |
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| The divers were running into long decompression stops, and their gauges already moving into the red zone. |
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| That year, a riot broke out between the Japanese divers and the poorly paid koepangers who tended to comprise the crew. |
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| Many divers suffer from seasickness, but throwing up before a dive loses lots of fluids. |
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| In April he stole the nation 's heart by completing the slowest ever London marathon in a 130 lb antique divers suit. |
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| Fish are fed in this area, so shoals of angelfish, surgeonfish, damsels and sergeant majors approach divers without fear. |
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| Bacon baguettes, sausage sandwiches, you name it, divers will be troughing it at some point during a diving day. |
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| Although you will be ready for this during the depths of winter, keeping warm can be very relevant to UK divers at any time of year. |
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| The economy is made in the scale of a trip for 40 or so divers sharing minibuses and vans, with club boats shuttling in and out all day long. |
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| Scuba divers can glide peacefully once they build up some momentum with a few kicks. |
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| And you can add the other stories about the aquatic divers who will reach the Convention Center under water. |
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| Police divers found the boat after locating a lobster pot which had lodged at the bottom of the sea bed. |
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| During that year divers regularly encountered large groups of rays in a channel leading from the open sea into Yap's lagoon. |
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| From out of the blue, a posse of divers with flashguns blazing descends on the scene. |
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| He has worked as a dive charter skipper in Australia and knows why missing divers are so hard to spot. |
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| Aldabra is famous among divers for the currents that flow through its channels as the changing tidal height affects the water in its lagoon. |
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| We reached the dive site without incident, every pair had a dive in turn and all divers were stung equally badly by jellyfish. |
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| Most significant of all, we felt, was that so many divers were keen enough to queue up to have their fitness checked. |
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| Their explosives had a time delay trigger to give the divers time to leave the port before exploding. |
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| After 37 years, the wreck has become something of a mainstay for divers in the area, but it is still excellent. |
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| The two divers were looking for whale bones, and checking on the condition of previously uncovered wrecks. |
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| Visiting divers will look at you with open admiration when you ask them which part of the wreck they would like to dive on. |
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| Within minutes strobes flashed and sand flew as divers raced from one intriguing subject to the next. |
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| New moves will be made this weekend by divers armed with sonar scarers used on fish farms to return him to the wild. |
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| Satisfied with the slack water the twin outboard engines were knocked into neutral as the gas divers were given the word to go. |
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| She said the divers will have to work with the tides and underwater visibility to do their job. |
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| Rather than swimming from the beach to a dive site at the point of the cove, divers were paddling kayaks out. |
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| First, it tells me that the outboard on the dory used by the Scottish divers kept stopping and the dory drifted away from the wreck. |
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| The government tried to buld an eco-resort for divers that would be powered by solar panels and wind power. |
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| The Seychelles are volcanic islands and the coral reefs around them ensure that divers and snorkellers have much to marvel at under water. |
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| The first divers down found the ship lying unevenly and had great difficulty in moving across the steeply sloping decks. |
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| The divers visit a small skerrig surrounded by a kelp forest with nudibranchs, comb jellyfish and sea butterflies. |
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| Drift-diving in Britain means that the divers will be drifting with a current. |
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| By contrast, information on the numbers and distribution of wintering divers and sea ducks remains a large gap in our knowledge. |
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| I watched beautiful red-throated divers and the wintering barnacle geese transit the abandoned Isle of Innismurray, a few miles offshore. |
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| We have conducted our own straw poll among divers we meet around the world. |
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| You need to have specialized equipment, hot-water suits, so the divers can spend the maximum amount of time in the water. |
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| The reef face is pockmarked by some fairly deep caves where only qualified cave divers should venture. |
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| People who drink alcohol and swim in North Yorkshire's rivers and lakes are dicing with death, police divers have warned. |
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| From the clifftop, I have watched otters and great northern divers fishing and porpoises passing by further out. |
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| Bait is also used at Dangerous Reef, in South Australia, but there the sharks are great whites, and the divers are in cages. |
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| The companies chartering some aircraft that specifically carry divers as passengers have negotiated a special privilege for them. |
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| Aquarius sits approximately 15 meters under the sea, where the pressure on divers is 2.5 times what we experience on land. |
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| In two separate incidents, two divers got into difficulties in Scapa Flow on Sunday. |
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| Apparently some divers end up having to buy extra suitcases to carry all the goodies home. |
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| There are cases of divers getting the bends as they returned through the Alps after diving the Mediterranean. |
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| Back then there were not many cave divers active in the Yorkshire Dales and most sumps were virtually unexplored. |
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| English divers are beginning to cotton on to the underwater delights of Ireland's Atlantic coast. |
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| You'll find eagles on the beautiful Isle of Skye and ospreys at Loch Garten, nesting red-throated divers in Islay, and corncrakes in Lewis. |
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| All those years ago, for example, pot fishermen regarded divers as their deadliest rivals for the shellfish of the sea. |
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| The upper part is the territory of the surgeonfish which savagely protects it by attacking divers when they approach. |
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| My favourite wreck, and that of many other visiting divers too, has to be the 450-ton two-hold Dutch coaster, the Lucy. |
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| Parrotfish, morays and groupers swim in these seas, and divers can swim alongside. |
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| Most divers who have been to Scapa Flow will have dived blockships in Burra Sound. |
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| Police also checked the river banks and divers searched a nearby drain yesterday in the hunt for clues. |
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| While the rest of us stood agog as the spray from the whales' blowholes misted over the deck, three divers managed to slip into the water. |
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| It was a blue shark, around two metres long, and showed no interest in the divers or the fish. |
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| Its liveaboard package to the Barents Sea in January left 22 divers ice-bound for four months in a guano barge. |
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| Keith Morris is happy with the news of the positive identification, though he won't relax until the divers complete their final dive in safety. |
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| It seems I have upset one of the more remote of my readers when I came down a wee bit heavily on divers using hard drugs. |
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| They were also carrying out routine checks of dykes, rivers and ditches in the area, and Mr Hankins said divers were on stand-by. |
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| Then, finally, off to the right about thirty to forty yards away, the dim silhouette of a group of divers began to pass. |
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| But divers grope with words to express the gap between the experience and the recollection. |
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| They see so many divers and snorkellers that they soon get bored and swim away. |
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| We might have to wait 10 minutes or so before another craft would pull out after disgorging its divers and kit. |
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| They chase off clownfish that don't fit into the hierarchy and many scuba divers tell anecdotes of being nipped at if they venture too close. |
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| I thought all divers gave up spearguns long, long ago and anyway, no real diver would ever use a spear on shellfish. |
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| Having finished second in the qualifying event in this pool six months ago, the British divers had the added advantage of diving last. |
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| Although most dives are divemaster led, divers in buddy pairs are free to go off on their own. |
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| There is something for everyone, from newly qualified divers through to experienced wreck explorers. |
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| Their coloration and daily spawning make them a favorite among divers visiting the Caribbean. |
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| Properly equipped certified cave divers may obtain the key from the nearby dive shop. |
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| As you swim through, your image is reflected from the ceiling, where previous divers ' bubbles have collected. |
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| Drift dives are almost always done from a boat, which drops divers in the water at the entry point. |
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| Jan was bemused that few of the divers on our boat talked about what they had seen on the dive. |
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| Each time, the divers dove from higher cliffs until they reached the very top. |
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| Most of them are experienced divers looking for clear water and shipwrecks to explore. |
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| A coach who trained Olympic divers has died suddenly less then a week before his 70th birthday. |
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| Police divers found a 9mm self-loading pistol at the bottom of a river in Co Limerick in December. |
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| Again a number of devices were found, divers descended attaching lines and bringing the mines aboard. |
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| They need to bring in an extra crane to help clear some of that debris before they want to put more divers down in the water. |
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| Police divers have been searching lakes and ponds for clues to the disappearance of a missing dad. |
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| Members of the fire service's water rescue team also joined the search before police underwater divers turned out at 10.30 pm. |
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| Her passport, mobile telephone, trainers and handbag were found by police divers in Barmston Drain. |
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| It was possible that the U.S. had their own divers out in the water on counter-insurgence missions. |
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| They've sent divers out into the water, but so far, with all that muck and debris in there, they've only been able to see about five feet down. |
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| Police divers have taken their first look at the wreck, with Sergeant Glenn McPhee saying it's a high probability it is the Princess. |
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| Rescue workers struggled for hours to free victims and police divers searched downstream for survivors and bodies. |
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| Police divers and forensic officers were at the canal yesterday as the Force helicopter made several sweeps of the area. |
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| The ship's clearance divers recently destroyed three piles of Japanese shells using red detonating cord. |
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| Rescue divers jumped into the 2,000-gallon saltwater tank on Monday night and hauled him up. |
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| This week, police divers joined the operation, swimming through the river's cold, dark waters searching for clues. |
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| But as it's turned out, divers have become the Grey Nurses' greatest friends. |
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| The latter finds favour with ducks, divers and Canada geese some of which cruised the river. |
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| Nonetheless, as we trekked Croton Point Park on Sunday, some divers in the Hudson River caught our eye. |
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| They fear that the turbines could kill rare birds such as golden eagles, black-throated divers and species of wader. |
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| He was found by divers on the gutting deck of the vessel wearing orange waterproof dungarees and a gold necklace. |
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| They are exceptional divers and, unlike other diving ducks, can take off from the water without running along the surface. |
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| I have known divers having to crack the ice on their diving suits and undersuits to get them flexible enough to put on. |
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| A team of international divers is struggling to open an escape hatch on the back of the submarine. |
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| Rescue divers approach the distressed submarine and use the submarine's escape hatch to transfer emergency life support stores. |
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| And cage diving allows divers and non-divers the opportunity to see these amazing fish up close and personal. |
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| On the following year's trip I was warm in a drysuit and helped take the next batch of novice divers in. |
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| The four deaths in the Forth area included a double fatality when two divers descended 65 metres to a wrecked steamship off Dunbar, East Lothian. |
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| My company is publicising a big caravan show, you see, and as we understand it, a large number of divers are in fact caravanners. |
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| All divers must carry a reel, DSMB and strobe, and are also encouraged to carry trauma shears. |
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| The air in this chamber is very low in oxygen, so divers are advised not to remove their regulators. |
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| Recently surfaced divers should never get involved in hauling up the weight, as this activity could precipitate a bend. |
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| The last few divers onto this wreck were faced with a spoked wheel of distance lines radiating out in all directions. |
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| Even when divers aren't feeding in the tanks, they will always have Pigfish lingering close by, ready to snap up anything that looks like food. |
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| At the back is a bank of fine silt that is invariably stirred up by the first few divers who venture inside, so try to be first there if you can! |
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| I watched as two police divers plunged into the frigid East River and quickly collected the corpse. |
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| On their way to the scene the divers had discovered the body of a man floating near the slipway. |
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| Highlight of the garden, created by scuba divers 150 feet down in the murky depths of Wastwater, is a display of around 40 garden gnomes. |
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| The pier is a popular fishing location, but divers need to be aware of the risk of fishing-line entanglement. |
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| Many divers enter the water with excessive amounts of weight strapped on to them. |
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| But all hope was lost on the ninth day when divers released the outer aft escape hatch of the submarine and found that it was completely flooded. |
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| From those obscured depths, the bubbled exhalations from unseen divers stream up from portholes, heading past us for the sun. |
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| Butterflyfishes are one of the most popular tropical fishes with divers and aquarists. |
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| How many other divers have encountered live munitions while pursuing their sport. |
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| Titan triggerfish are armed with powerful jaws and teeth suitable for chewing bony corals divers should steer clear of them! |
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| Most cave divers would opt for rope ladders and a safety belay for entry and exit, but we used single rope caving techniques and equipment. |
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| The on-board compressor then pumps the final pressures as a small inflatable ferries the divers back and forth. |
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| These ladies were champion breaststrokers and divers in their youth, dominating national competitions. |
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| It was more sheltered from the south-west winds, but a dive for experienced divers only. |
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| A team of divers arrived early Tuesday morning and was able to cut the boat free. |
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| Worldwide, however, travelling divers are more likely to see pan-tropical spotted and spinner dolphins in the wild. |
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| First, two experienced divers armed with buoys marked the reef and the area which needed to be cleaned. |
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| Unfortunately, the foam insulation inside the suit also makes divers more buoyant and even less able to swim downward. |
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| Seals and seams are known to be less than watertight, and many divers make do with damp suits rather than drysuits. |
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| Our divers on Tuesday's dive were absolutely thrilled to witness one of our most beautiful rays, the marbled butterfly ray, at Playa Paraiso. |
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| The incidence of decompression sickness among recreational scuba divers is estimated to be one case per 5,000 to 10,000 dives. |
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| The majority of recreational divers with neurologic decompression sickness have an excellent recovery after prompt recompression therapy. |
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| St Abbs is a fishing village in the north-east, just south of the Scottish border, which has become justifiably very popular with divers. |
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| The divers are a mix of small groups from clubs, regular midweek divers and locals. |
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| The boat is full with a mix and match of divers from all over the place, mostly midweek regulars. |
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| Fortunately, there was no one about to witness the sight of six fully kitted divers slipping and sliding through the cowpats. |
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| During this period a few Swedish divers had carried out covert night dives on the wrecks. |
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| I outlasted other divers and gained some cracking close-ups of hammerhead sharks, great rays and grey reef sharks. |
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| Bali Hai is located at Panuba Inn Resort with its own jetty connected to the dive base, and accommodation for its own divers. |
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| Nevertheless, these are dangerous animals and should not be touched or interfered with in any way by divers. |
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| The number of divers suffering the bends in Scapa Flow is five times higher than the global average, it was revealed this week. |
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| And then you're in the same problem that divers have when they come up from a great depth, the problem of nitrogen bends, decompression sickness. |
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| The navy had an emergency decompression chamber on stand by in case one of the divers suffered the bends. |
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| The disease suffered by divers known as the bends is an example of the same phenomenon. |
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| The divers involved claim that the fish weighed 32 kg, so big in fact that it had to be taken to a public weighbridge. |
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| By that time, Tracy had radioed the Los Angeles County Harbor Patrol and a rescue boat with divers was on the way. |
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| Advisory medical standards are in place for certain occupations, such as in the armed forces and police, railwaymen, and professional divers. |
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| Suction occurs when there is a hole or fissure in the dam wall on the upstream side, and it means death for divers. |
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| It is here that divers may encounter anything from schooling batfish, barracudas to a sailfish, or even the whale shark. |
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| Even for veteran scuba divers such as myself, an excursion on a submarine is an exciting adventure. |
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| The body was recovered by police divers and removed to a mortuary at Bangor. |
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| This is just one of an extraordinary sequence of curious encounters between orcas and divers in the waters off New Zealand. |
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| In general it tends to be independent travellers and divers who make it to the island. |
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| Last year the school had to redshirt its divers when the diving coach quit mid-season. |
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| One is a powered catamaran that can travel at 30 knots, carrying 50 divers with their instructors and sufficient tanks for two dives. |
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| The divers teamed up in groups of two or three, and each group carried with them cutting tools and lift bags. |
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| These teeth are used to crush prey, mostly of shellfish and crustaceans, and only rarely are used offensively towards divers. |
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| In completely blacked-out underwater conditions, two divers conducted a tactile search to locate a sunken Iraqi minelayer with her deadly load. |
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| This is said to combine the best of three distinctly different areas, all a delight to divers. |
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| The M20 is closed following an accident and some of its divers are stuck in the traffic jam. |
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| Free divers are taking extreme sports to new depths, while ever mindful of not being shark bait. |
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| Fish life on the wreck is as varied as on any reef and there are numerous exotic finds for sharp-eyed divers. |
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| Only divers knew that these were actually big shoals of milkfish that cruised off-shore. |
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| Beautiful table and staghorn corals cover the topside structures offering divers spectacular vistas. |
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| For those wanting more than shore diving, a Zodiac taxi service drops divers just outside the bay to swim back. |
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| Aside from what was later termed emotional trauma, the divers were returned unharmed. |
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| Cecilia, one of my club divers, is only 5ft 2in, and the crotch flapped around her ankles. |
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| The dig, which began Monday, was a second priority for the divers, whose main goal was to survey the shipwreck site for storm damage. |
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| It's a place to see shoaling hammerheads and big silky sharks, but it's not a place for new divers. |
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| The clear mild waters around many of the areas hit by the tsunami have made them popular with divers and it remains unclear how many were killed. |
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| Fear of becoming shark bait seems to be widespread among new divers. |
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| Designed to carry up to 20 divers in well-equipped double cabins, she has two generators, two water desalinators, air and nitrox and photo-processing facilities. |
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| Penguins are flightless divers with poorly pneumatized skeleton, carinate sternum with two lateral notches, 15 cervical vertebrae and basipterygoid processes absent. |
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| And only a couple of weeks ago, divers also thought they had come across the wreck of the Darwin Princess, a 23 metre ferry last seen in Frances Bay. |
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| And because of the technical nature of some of the dives, nitrox and trimix are readily available to divers able to show proof of training, qualifications and experience. |
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| Each officer spends every third day of duty at the airfield at Rockaway Beach, where Scuba maintains an air-sea rescue team with two divers and a helicopter pilot. |
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| On average the rebreather divers were doing ten minutes more bottom time than the open circuit divers and getting out of the water at the same time. |
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| There are more than enough wrecks to keep divers happy for years to come. |
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| The divers kitted up in harnesses and ascended the wet ratlines. |
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| Reef life includes batfish, yellowfin tuna and teeming shoals of smaller fish, but divers might also encounter stingrays, turtles, sharks, groupers, snappers and whale sharks. |
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| Some snorkellers swam alongside a whale shark, while divers of one boat made their entry to find themselves among a welcoming committee of pilot whales. |
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| The train stays at the railhead for half an hour, leaving divers with the flexibility of choosing which train they would like to ride back to shore on. |
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| Horizon also takes divers to rarely visited islands off the Baja coastline, such as Guadalupe and San Benito, to see hordes of sea-lions, yellowfin tuna and other pelagics. |
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| As illegal divers working for the Asian export market continue to thin abalone populations, the survivors are dying off as old maids and bachelors. |
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| The steel plating is very fragile and probably won't survive many more seasons, especially with divers who insist on pulling themselves around on it. |
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| The star of Baja California on the Pacific coast is Cabo san Lucas and the islands and sea mounts off La Paz, where divers can encounter whale sharks, mantas and hammerheads. |
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| But the third and potentially worst problem of all is that Dorothea is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and we divers appear to be exceedingly gullible! |
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| For safety reasons, professional divers were employed for the job. |
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| Several species of grebes and divers feed in the shallows offshore. |
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| Many technical divers do their dive in advance without leaving the sofa. |
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| The only danger they face is from health problems brought about by thoughtless divers tempting them with unsuitable food like bread and frankfurter sausages. |
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| I was expecting to see puffins, exciting divers and a variety of waders. |
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| Sand divers and garden eels, still feeding in the early evening on suspended plankton, plunged into the sand as our bright lights illuminated the darkening water. |
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| Doria divers have been swept off the anchorline used to reach the wreck or misjudged their breathing gas supply and run out or failed to properly decompress on the ascent. |
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| Picture a spot where, at the change of tides, the sea boils through a narrow pass, providing experienced divers with a glorious ride past sharks and other marine life. |
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| Scheduled dives for qualified divers run throughout the summer. |
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| On overseas trips I meet many British divers who don't dive at home. |
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| Few, if any, of the divers aboard the JdL for our late-summer dive cruise had prior sailing experience, particularly on a square-rigged sailing ship like this brigantine. |
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| There were eight divers on my boat, and three non-divers as dogsbodies. |
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| In the 1980s, divers recovered bones from 400 men who were aboard the Maru Aikoku. |
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| With basic and advanced nitrox divers should not be able to buy oxygen. |
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| Throughout both days the divers would speak to the public via underwater communications, play noughts and crosses with the children and generally entertain the crowd. |
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| I was happy that the wrecks of Champion and Iona were still there, giving divers the chance to see a method of propulsion that is now almost extinct. |
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| He explained to me that there were probably about 20 or so divers in the lake, and that they explore the rocky lake bottom which apparently also includes a deep trench. |
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| Where there are no obstacles, a buddy line can be a useful safety aid, but beware of the line snagging and divers colliding like a pair of conkers on strings. |
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| As the divers assembled their kit we discussed the plan for the day. |
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| Snorkelers can have a grand time floating just 30 feet above the stern, watching the divers below and the thousands of fish that live in the wreck. |
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| A huge police operation was carried out on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to unearth any clues with divers scouring the waters of the River Ribble at the docks. |
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| Bolted to the deck beside it are bright yellow warning signs about the dangers of entering a wreck, and reminding divers that they enter at their own risk. |
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| Home to exquisite beaches, blistering sunshine and the second largest coral reef in the world, Cozumel is also a magnet for serious sun-worshippers and scuba divers. |
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| Meanwhile, helicopters buzz overhead providing air cover, and teams of divers are also checking wharves and jetties at the port of Umm Qasr itself. |
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| The path goes for almost four miles through undulating moorland with no views of the sea and you pass several lochans, where divers nest in the summer. |
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| The more daring divers can approach the screen that separates the pools, and poke small baitfish through holes to the dozen nurse sharks waiting hungrily on the other side. |
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| Positioned about 100 miles west-north-west off mainland Scotland, St Kilda is a group of seven islands, which are often inaccessible to divers due to unforgiving weather. |
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| Some divers may develop fever, headache, nausea, difficulty in swallowing or breathing, faintness, rapid heart beat, weakness, chills, diarrhea, and muscle spasms. |
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| Now, helium based gas mixtures such as trimix are available, as is the knowledge and training that is available to enable divers to dive more safely to 70m and beyond. |
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| The modus operandi, they said, was for divers with aqualungs to collect perlemoen which they then took ashore at dusk in sacks and left in a hideout in the bush and dunes. |
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| Senior officers say the 21st-Century threat goes far beyond the limpet mines and similar devices ships' divers were expected to cope with four decades ago. |
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| While truly avid divers can go below four to six times a day, there's abundant snorkeling, jacuzzis, sun decks and other entertainment for non-divers. |
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| On the port side, fish swim in and out where hull plating has decayed, leaving ragged holes blocked to any but the skinniest of divers by upright hull ribs. |
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| The next morning the breakers over the shallow plateau might have had surfers across the world salivating in anticipation, but for divers they looked alarming. |
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| Police divers recovered the teenager's body from a deep pool in the river. |
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| My Eastbourne Leak tells me a strange tale of a cheeky chappie among local divers who seems to be using conservation as a cover for a more dubious plan. |
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| Year round, divers can swim with white tips, black tips, silvertips, grey reef sharks and other pelagics which dot the bright coral with their prominent dorsal fins. |
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| Organised divers always carry some means of signalling their position at the surface, whether it be air-horn or flag, flare or heliograph, or combinations of two or more. |
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| The most common myth is that great whites, with their poor vision, attack divers and surfers in wet suits, mistaking them for pinnipeds, their main prey. |
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| Everyone agrees that Olympic divers and gymnasts are competitive athletes. |
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| Unit divers are equipped with both standard wet and dry diving suits. |
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| Civilian divers have used the SLS for several years as an emergency means of returning to the diving bell if there is a problem with oxygen hoses. |
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| Scuba divers explore the Julian Rocks Marine Reserve while bushwalkers stride into the rolling green hinterlands, through koala forests and macadamia plantations. |
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| Once they have undergone an official briefing and paid the annual marine park entrance fee, suitably certified divers are free to dive unescorted and at their own discretion. |
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| I can remember trying a new, high-powered, high-voltage HID lamp with a very wide beam and ruining the night dive for all the other divers with me. |
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| A couple of divers are preparing to do some training exercises in the shallow water of the bay and the others will be diving the wreck of the Lucy later. |
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| The week-long event focuses on protecting the world's coral reefs and marine ecosystems and educating divers on their role in conservation efforts. |
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| Plenty of interest in the day, and night divers can expect to encounter flatties, including the occasional ray, octopus, small cuttlefish and lobster. |
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| Are you one of those divers who assumes that most of the fish off our coasts are wrasse, unless they have both eyes on one side, in which case they're called flatties? |
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| So, that's why the free divers can get away without getting the bends. |
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| Other findings by divers have been more morbid, like skulls and bones from Japanese soldiers killed in the attacks. |
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| The divers were able to confirm that the shell, packed with lyddite explosive, was fired either by HMS Swiftsure or HMS Triumph on exercise in the run-up to the Great War. |
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| With prizes on the Red Bull tour of just a few thousand dollars, the divers certainly aren't in it for the money. |
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| Like most of the divers I have ever met, I'm no oil painting. |
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| Just offshore from the Stromsholmen centre lies the island of Kvitholmen, which harbours yet more facilities for divers who want a little more seclusion. |
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| Scuba divers use mail to protect them from sharkbite, as do animal control officers for protection against the animals they handle. |
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| It is thought the divers spent too much time too deep searching for the ornaments. |
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| Police divers report a rumour that the garden had been replaced at a depth beyond the lowest they were allowed to dive. |
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| At a depth of about 48 m, divers had taken gnomes down and put a picket fence around them. |
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| As police divers we can't legally dive any deeper so, if it exists, the new garden could have been purposefully put out of our reach. |
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| Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen gathered about a table, examining by a dim light divers specimens of skrimshander. |
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| They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. |
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| Submarines can work at greater depths than are survivable or practical for human divers. |
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| At least seven of the scuttled German ships, and a number of sunken British ships, can be visited by scuba divers. |
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| Navy Marine Mammal Program, including detecting naval mines and enemy divers. |
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| They are curious and will often look in on divers in the water and are impressive to watch underwater. |
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| Later, two other professional divers, John Deane and William Edwards, were employed. |
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| Hundreds of ships have been wrecked on the Farnes over the years, providing plenty for wreck divers to look at. |
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| South of Hayling Island in the Solent is a deposit of stones, which scuba divers found to be the remains of a stone building, probably a church. |
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| The divers first discovered a cannon, and on the third dive, silver and gold coins were spotted underneath that cannon. |
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| A team of 18 divers, vets, marine experts and volunteers successfully refloated the mammals. |
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| As guides they will be able to take other certified scuba divers to the many beautiful diving sites which Oman has to offer. |
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| Now, a new generation of scuba divers in Dubai is turning a stretch of coastline closer to home into one of the region's watersport hostpots. |
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| But when the group leader miscounts and thinks all the divers are back on board the pair are left bobbing alone in the middle of the ocean. |
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| Thresher sharks have also been sighted by divers passing over deep volcanic channels, as has the extremely rare and elusive megamouth shark. |
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| The sponge divers also recovered from the wreck the famous Antikythera mechanism, believed to be an astronomical calculator. |
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| Snorkelers and SCUBA divers come from all over the globe to see the park's colorful reefs and species like endangered staghorn coral. |
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| Forensic divers may experience additional risks, including hypothermia, hyperthermia, air embolism, and dehydration. |
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| The search for the black box received a boost earlier on Monday when Brazilian navy divers recovered the tail fin of the Airbus A330 jet. |
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| More great northern divers were off Moelfre, Holyhead harbour and Penrhos Country Park, where four Slavonian grebes fed on Sunday. |
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| On the sea, great northern divers were close inshore at Rhos Point and Holyhead harbour and two velvet scoters are at Llanddulas. |
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| Six slavonian grebes and two great northern divers cheered seawatchers at Llanfairfechan, with more at Beddmanarch Bay and Benllech. |
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| And divers in 1993 discovered possible proof of this early form of international trade in the mouth of the nearby River Erme. |
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| The effect of SCUBA divers on fish density and target strength estimates from stationary dual-beam hydroacoustics. |
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| Largs lifeboat took one of the men to the hyperbaric chamber on the Isle of Cumbrae, which treats divers with the bends. |
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| During June, July, and August of 2010, divers used quadrats to estimate densities of crabs and worm tubes. |
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| Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations. |
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| And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. |
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| Upon exiting the plane, he uses his arms to position himself above the team to film the formation as the divers free fall. |
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| Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. |
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| With divers kinds of Riddance The smoaking Earth is wet, And all aflowe to seaward goe The Torrents wide of Sweat! |
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| Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire. |
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| The gathering of great northern divers off the Llyn saw a count of 43 off Dinas Dinlle, while 10 Slavonian grebes remain off Llanfairfechan. |
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| In 1715, pirates launched a major raid on Spanish divers trying to recover gold from a sunken treasure galleon near Florida. |
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| Radar man Graham radioes a lifeboat in the area and the divers are plucked to safety. |
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| Stingray City is a top attraction in Grand Cayman and originally started in the 1980s, when divers started feeding squid to stingrays. |
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| September 14, regarded by many in the industry as an auspicious date, is when divers return to shore, many overcome with jubilance. |
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| The mayor of the Honduran city of Puerto Lempira, population 11,000, estimates that 1,400 injured divers live in the area. |
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| Most ships were salvaged, but the remaining wrecks are now a favoured haunt of recreational divers. |
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