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Video: The bull sharks from Playa
New non-governmental organization XOOC has published a mini-documentary about the bull sharks of Playa del Carmen, Mexico onto Vimeo. Twenty five sharks, including pregnant females, were caught by fishermen in the area during November 2010. The animals were taken for their fins and this effectively destroyed a fledgling shark tourism industry in the area.
The film attempts to underline that those sharks had the potential to be great sustainable assets to the tourist industry, and that these earning are now lost.
Scuba Show announces film festival line-up
The Long Beach Scuba Show has announced the full line-up of films that will be shown during the event. The show will be held on 4 and 5 June at the Long Beach Convention Center and the films will be shown on a “mega-sized” screen in the exhibit hall.
Tickets for the show are now available.
Tickets available for Bite-Back Ball
Marine environmental charity Bite-Back has released tickets for the fifth annual Bite-Back at Cancer Ball, to be held in central London on 24 September. The fundraising evening will take place aboard RS Hispaniola, a decommissioned ferry permanently moored on the north bank of the River Thames and up to 130 participants will be able to enjoy a three-course dinner with wine, raffle, disco, fundraising roulette tables and the chance to bid for a series of prizes.
Tickets are priced at £65 until the end of July, and £75 thereafter. Proceeds from the black-tie event will go to Bite-Back’s Shark and Marine Conservation programme and to Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Sealux releases housing for Sony HDR-CX700
Sealux has announced the release of a new housing for the Sony HDR-CX700 camcorder. It is constructed of CNC milled aluminum which is then hard anodized. The camcorder is mounted onto a special saddle, to ensure the camera is correctly fitted and all camera function will be available via electronic or mechanical controls.
The new housing will be available soon and prices are to be confirmed.
Trip report: Nuweiba, Egyptian Red Sea
Egypt’s Red Sea is synonymous with fantastic coral reefs, blue water and brightly colored schools of anthia goldfish, but curiously seems to not to be highly regarded for macro or super macro underwater photography.
Over the past few years however, I had heard of some of the big names in UK underwater photography leading trips to a relatively obscure resort in the Northern Red Sea and returning with images that were unique for the area. I resolved to visit Nuweiba myself to see if this could be the destination for Red Sea muck diving.
Wrecks of the Adriatic iPad app
Wetpixel member Grega Verč has launched an interactive iPad guide to the Croatian wrecks of the Adriatic. It is designed to offer a virtual tour of nineteen wrecks for visiting divers and also offers wreck photography from Danijel Frka, Grega Verč and Marino Brzac.
The app is available now on iTunes at $9.99, and Grega is planning to release an update soon that will allow the app to be used on the iPhone as well.
Aggressor and Dancer fleet launch photo competition.
The Aggressor and Dancer fleet has launched a monthly on-line photo competition for images taken whilst on cruises with the company. Submitted images will be uploaded onto the companies Facebook pages where there will be a public vote for the winners. Monthly winning entries will be automatically entered into an annual contest.
Full details and how to enter are on the Aggressor and Dancer fleet pages. Significantly, the competitions are not open to professional photographers, and images entered must have been taken by guests on the company’s cruises within the previous 180 days.
Adobe warns of bug in Lightroom 3.4 and Camera RAW 6.4
The Adobe Lightroom team has found a bug in the latest versions of Lightroom and Camera RAW. Versions 3.4 and 6.4 respectively have a problem that occurs with saving metadata to JPEG images that already have unusually large blocks of private camera data. In these instances, the software will cause severe levels of corruption to the images. The team report that this is a rare occurrence, but advise that people working with large numbers of JPEG files should wait for an updated release of Lightroom and Camera RAW as a precautionary measure.
Full details of the issue can be found on the Adobe Lightroom Journal. The bugs should be fixed by update 3.4.1 for Lightroom and 6.4.1 for Camera RAW, both of which are due for release on 27 May.