A realização deste torneio dependerá como habitualmente de boas condições de mar.

Tal como aconteceu na 1ª jornada, neste evento poderá participar quem for sócio do Clube GaiaSub com as cotas regularizadas.

Haverá tambem um Jantar convivio em local a designar para quem pretender, não sendo obrigatório para participar na prova.

Se por razões de segurança ou mau estado do mar a prova for adiada, o jantar mantem-se como evento do Clube e a prova ficará marcada para o sábado seguinte não podendo contudo coincidir com as provas do calendário nacional.

As inscrições para este encontro poderão ser efectuadas no site do Clube GaiaSub na secção de eventos http://www.gaiasub.net/evento.asp?id=170, onde poderá tambem ver o regulamento da prova.

Os pormenores sobre este evento/convivio poderão ser visualizados no site do Clube após se reunir todas as condições de segurança para a prática desta modalidade.

Haverá prémios para os trés primeiros classificados e para o maior exemplar desta prova gentilmente cedidos pela MEGASUB.

O Clube GaiaSub quer desde já agradecer a simpatia do Carlos Osorio pela disponibilidade que tem demonstrado para com o Clube e os seus associados não só ao se aliar a esta festa da pesca e dos pescadores submarinos, mas tambem por toda a sua participação activa desde o nascimento do Clube. Obrigado

A Direcção do Clube GaiaSub

GLORIA GALLOWAY

OTTAWA — Animal welfare activists will stage demonstrations across Europe tomorrow to put pressure on the European Environment Commissioner to ban the import of Canadian seal products.

“Animal welfare organizations all over Europe are going to have a simultaneous press events,” Steven Blaakman, a spokesman for the Eurogroup for Animals, said in a telephone interview from Brussels yesterday.

The groups have been armed with fresh footage of the seal hunt that is continuing, albeit slowly, on Canada’s East Coast. The videos were obtained over the past weeks by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Human Society International.

“Animal welfare organizations are going to use the new footage, new images of this month’s hunt to show that it can never be done humanely,” Mr. Blaakman said. “Even if you ban the axe, even if you use rifles, it still can’t be done humanely.”

Stavros Dimas, the EU environment chief, has said that he would ban the import of all seal products from culls in which animals suffer.

Belgium and the Netherlands have already banned the products but a market remains in other European countries.

Mr. Blaakman said tomorrow’s demonstrations are meant to push Mr. Dimas to act.

“Obviously images always work very strongly. And we just want to show people what actually happens,” he said.

“The Canadian traders say ‘oh, it is being done humanely, there are new rules, there is talk over abolishing the axe.’ Even with rifles, it’s difficult to kill them instantly. They still suffer. And I think if people saw it they would agree with us as well.”

But Loyola Sullivan, Canada’s ambassador for fisheries conservation, said the images are deceptive and misleading – especially those that suggests seals are being skinned alive.

Seals have a strong swimming reflex and, for as much as 45 seconds after they are dead, their body continues to make those types of motions, Mr. Sullivan said.

There may be instances where seals are killed inhumanely, he said, but they are isolated and they should be reported to the federal Fisheries Department.

Studies also show that only 95 per cent of cattle are killed with the first blow, Mr. Sullivan said, and the rate is much less for hunted animals such as deer and waterfowl.

“So if we are going to apply isolated cases there, I think you’d better be prepared to stack up to the killing of every animal in the world, whether in the wild or domesticated,” he said.

Mr. Sullivan said he has met with the most senior officials of the European Commission to try to prevent the ban from being imposed.

“We’ve had 11 different meetings with members of the European Parliament to give them the facts in this case,” he said, “because this is an issue that is totally misrepresented, taking isolated incidents and trying to tell people around the world that it’s what’s happening in all the cases.[+]

source:CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc.

When organisms in the sea die they sink, taking their nutrients to the depths. The nutrients don’t stay lost at the bottom for ever though, otherwise there would be very few animals in the surface layer. In polar and temperate oceans, as the surface water gets cold it sinks and forces the nutrient-rich water up from the depths. This process is called overturn. Storms also mix up the layers and this constant churning process is why the waters around the poles are such rich feeding grounds. This is also why the temperature at the poles is so crucial because if the surface water warms up, this massive food factory is effectively shut down. In tropical and subtropical oceans, the surface water never gets cold enough to sink. Here nutrients are provided by upwellings. This is where the wind causes water to move, and the gap left is filled by nutrient-rich water flowing upward from the deep. Regions of upwelling can support large populations of fish. In waters of the coast of Peru an upwelling results in huge numbers of anchovy. Towards the end of the year the winds die down, the upwelling decreases and the water warms up. This is called En Nino. In some years the warm, nutrient-poor waters flow back east and the anchovy disappear, causing knock-on effects for many other species. The nutrients that arise from the deep encourage seaweed growth and support blooms of phytoplankton. This forms food for animals higher in the food chain: fish, marine mammals and seabirds. This can make for good dive sites: other upwelling regions include the Galapagos and Western Australia.

source: http://www.scubatravel.co.uk

Saudações molhadas

Para o próximo fim de semana gostariamos de poder sair, e/ou acabar os cursos, mas vai ser difícil, esperemos por amanhã ou sexta, porque o mar vai baixar, mas será que trás força? pouca visibilidade terá, vamos analisar… pode ser que se possa fazer algum mergulho mais dificil na zona de Peniche.

Ontem tivemos mais 23 jovens de Coimbra do Colégio da Imaculada Conceição, para um baptismo de mergulho em piscina, que sairam entusiasmados, dada a facilidade encontrada, que se tornem “mergulhadores”… Provávelmente, de 17 a 25 de Maio vamos estar na Graciosa para mais um curso de mergulho “Open Water” onde devemos ver em primeira mão (a receber a 8 de Maio) o também novo barco do Centro Náutico da Graciosa, que poderá transportar mais de 20 mergulhadores. Quem está preso ao trabalho no verão, agora também é uma boa altura para mergulhar nos Açores, são ilhas, não está bom num lado estará no outro, e quando eles dizem que está má visibilidade, é entre 18/20 metros; esquisito… Luciano Mesquita – PADI IDC Staff Instructor #939690

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