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CineBags CB70 Square Grouper, your underwater housing's best friend
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CineBags Releases CB70 Square Grouper

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CineBags CB70 Square Grouper, your underwater housing's best friend

Underwater photographers know that our underwater rigs are susceptible to leaks even if it’s in the rinse bucket. Housings can get banged up or bumped and ports can come loose.  It is also a pain to carry your underwater camera from one place to another due to its weight.  CineBags came up with the ultimate carrying bag for our underwater camera rig, CB70 Square Grouper.  You could now easily and comfortably carry your whole rig from your hotel or resort to the dive boat.  It could also serve as a personal rinse tank to avoid any accidents.

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Show how fast, how far and how high you went with the new feature.
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GoPro Hero5 Black Feature Unlocked: Telemetry and GPS

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Show how fast, how far and how high you went with the new feature.

Make your photos and videos more interesting by adding telemetry gauges to your story.   With the Quik for Desktop app, you can add more details to moment you have captured such as GPS path, speed, altitude, g-force, elevation gain and a lot more.  Aside from that, overlays could also be customizable to your liking; position, size and what type of data would you want to show.  

Below is the press release from GoPro.

 

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DEMA: Deepblu announces new online social platform for sharing photos and videos integrated into dive logs plus the Cosmiq+ dive computer
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Photo & Video Dive Logs Meet the Cloud

Deepblu 2.0 and COSMIQ+ Announcement
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DEMA: Deepblu announces new online social platform for sharing photos and videos integrated into dive logs plus the Cosmiq+ dive computer

Deepblu has just announced a robust social dive log platform and new dive computer at the DEMA tradeshow in La Vegas. The company has been making waves over the last year with popular dive log app that integrates your underwater photos and videos into your online dive profile. You can then share the profile in the online social community.

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DEMA: Light & Motion releases innovative wide dome port that increases beam angle by 25 degrees, plus powerful new lights
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Light & Motion Dome Port Optic & New Lights

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DEMA: Light & Motion releases innovative wide dome port that increases beam angle by 25 degrees, plus powerful new lights

Light and Motion has always been one of the most popular companies when it comes to underwater photography. They produce innovative products and powerful and lightweight video and focus lights.  This DEMA 2016, they are intorducing a few items that they are adding to their product line - Sola Video Pro with 9,600 lumens, Sola Video 3,800, Dome Port Optic, New Dive 2500 S/F and Stella Pro camera lights.

 

PRESS RELEASE


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DEMA: WorldWide Dive & Sail and Blue O Two have announced a merger of their liveaboard fleets
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Worldwide Dive & Sail and Blue O Two Merger

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DEMA: WorldWide Dive & Sail and Blue O Two have announced a merger of their liveaboard fleets

Recently, the luxury liveaboard operator, Worldwide Dive & Sail and UK's largest diving operator, Blue O Two have announced that they are already on the final stages of their merger.  The two companies have been developing this merger since 2014 and expects to finalize by the end of this year.  

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Two different great white sharks have breached dive cages with divers in last 3 weeks, stirring the debate on shark chumming and wrangling
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2nd Great White Shark Breaches Dive Cage

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Two different great white sharks have breached dive cages with divers in last 3 weeks, stirring the debate on shark chumming and wrangling

For the second time in weeks, a great white shark has breached a shark dive cage containing divers. Both events took place with different sharks on different boats at Mexico's famed shark diving mecca, Guadalupe Island. To be clear - THESE ARE NOT SHARK ATTACKS - but situations where sharks have been excited by fish chum and 'wrangling' in order to bring them close to the cages for photo opportunities.

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A location you would not expect - after decades of research, the longest continuous coral system has been discovered.
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Largest Continuous Coral System Found

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A location you would not expect - after decades of research, the longest continuous coral system has been discovered.

After two decades of exploration, scientists have discovered the largest continuous coral system surrounding the Hawaiian Islands.  Aside from the popular reefs found on the shallow, they also discovered more incredible reefs in mesophotic zone.  Also known as “twilight zone” with depths of 30 to 150 meters (100 to 500 feet) and is almost totally dark, they did not expect to see a higher cover percentage. "What is unique about this study is how vast and dense the coral cover is" according to Richard Pyle, lead researcher from Bishop Museum in Honolulu.

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Bluewater Photo announces winners of the annual SoCal Shootout underwater photo contest
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SoCal Shootout 2016 Results

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Bluewater Photo announces winners of the annual SoCal Shootout underwater photo contest

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Incredible areal footage of orcas hunting for stingrays in clear shallow water of Mercury Island, New Zealand
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Video: Orcas Hunting Stingrays in the Shallows

Orcas Hunting Stingrays in Shallows
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Incredible areal footage of orcas hunting for stingrays in clear shallow water of Mercury Island, New Zealand

A seasoned drone pilot, Jack Preston, flown his drone and captured an unexpected footage of orcas hunting for stingrays in the shallows of the coast of Mercury Island in New Zealand.  According to Preston”The orcas just came out of nowhere!”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chino Mendoza , is an avid diver and underwater photographer and tries to go everytime he can.  He is based in Manila which is a few hours Anilao which is the “critter capital of the Philippines”  He likes to shoot macro and his favorite subjects are nudibranchs and frogfishes.

Get in touch with him via email at lorenzo@bluewaterphotostore.com

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ALSO BY CHINO MENDOZA

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Watch the surprise in this video of a false killer whale visiting snorkelers in Tonga this year
By Chino Mendoza

Caught on Video: False Killer Whale Leaps Over Snorkler

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Watch the surprise in this video of a false killer whale visiting snorkelers in Tonga this year

Earlier this year, Scott Portelli, an Australia diver and trip leader, captured a very unexpected event when a false killer whale suddenly jumped over a guest. Or actually, behind a guest. The perspective looks otherwise though!

According to Portelli, "Today out on the water we had an unexpected encounter with a large pod of false killer whales." One of the false killer whales from the pod swam under the snorkler and suddenly leaped (what appears to be) right over him. This is a truly fun, and rare event, which Portelli has luckily caught on camera. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chino Mendoza , is an avid diver and underwater photographer and tries to go everytime he can.  He is based in Manila which is a few hours Anilao which is the “critter capital of the Philippines”  He likes to shoot macro and his favorite subjects are nudibranchs and frogfishes.

Get in touch with him via email at lorenzo@bluewaterphotostore.com

View Chino's work:  Facebook     |     Instagram

ALSO BY CHINO MENDOZA

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