China Says No More Shark Fin Soup at State Banquets China will prohibit official banquets from serving shark fin soup, an expensive and popular delicacy blamed for a sharp decline in global shark populations. The ban, reported by Xinhua, the state-run news agency, could take as many as three years to take effect, and it remains unclear how widely it will be adhered to across a sprawling nation where orders issued by Beijing are often shrugged off by officials in faraway regions and provinces.

Paul TOSH Tanner finished his first Instructor Crossover today with ex-hospital clown Anke Moors. She is fluent in Dutch, English, German, Spanish and French. A PADI DM, PADI Instrutor, BSAC dive leader and now a SSI Open Water Scuba Instructor who will be a AOWI in a couple of weeks once she has finished her internship.  ANY dive school would be lucky to have her on staff. She is looking for work. e-mail me if you need a 5 language PADI/SSI instructor for the high season in SE Asia.

As for the twins DONNY and RICKY. Don is very small with a boyish charm and a little scruffy, Ricky is smaller. These two have chosen an interesting path to enlightenment which involves having a free spirt and following their hearts to live a life they enjoy and not the 9-5 office crap.

Once again these two have been trained to the highest standard by PADI/BSAC/TDI/SDI and now the pinnacle for diver education SSI.  If you're looking for hard working charming men (or man I think they can be spilt up) who knows what it is like to do a day's real work, these are two of the best. They are not 18 years old looking to put off going home, these guys are in it for the long haul. e-mail me if you need hard workers.

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Young people with disabilities experience their "ASTRONAUT MOMENT" as Diveheart volunteers help release them from the bonds of gravity and introduce them to the wonder of the water column that exists in INNER SPACE

This summer Diveheart will bring four groups of young people with disabilities on a life changing scuba experience to the Florida Keys.  Each participant & trip must be self funded

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We teach all our Dive Masters, Interns, Dive Cons, Assist Instructors, Dive Instructors and staff to be aware of the effect we are having on Koh Tao and the world.

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