THE MAG N ° 65 - THE DIVING MAGAZINE

RUSTY PETARDS, A TRADE, A PASSION: DEMONING DIVER

Now recruited from the holders of the ship's diving certificate, applicants must complete a 9-month initial training course during which they will learn to use all regulatory open, closed and semi-closed circuit breathing apparatus. Their qualification will allow them to dive up to 60 meters in the air, and up to 80 meters with ternary mixtures (trimix) composed of nitrogen, oxygen and helium. They will also be trained in the search for, identification and destruction of submerged explosive devices, underwater work (cutting, welding, moving large objects, underwater photography and video). A few years later, access to the advanced clearance diver certificate will allow them to complete their knowledge in the neutralization of explosive devices ...

FAKARAVA SOUTH: THE TERRITORY OF SHARKS

We continue our Polynesian getaway and take you to discover South Fakarava… The Fakarava atoll stretches over 60 km long and 25 km wide, its depth varying between 30 and 50 meters. Two passes feed and regenerate the lagoon. That of Ngarue, to the north, is the largest in Polynesia: 1600 meters wide. To the south, the Tumakohua pass is more modest, with two hundred meters ...

THE BOULEDOGUE SHARK

Indispensable, the bulldog shark has been in the spotlight for several years! How not to talk about it when it makes the front page of the news two to three times a year! Indeed, it is on French territory, on Reunion Island, that this shark is made known to the general public because of accidents and the impact that this can have on tourism. Yet it is a source of savings ...

Pierre Frolla (at the initiative of this operation), the FMAS (Monegasque Federation of Underwater Activities) and society Prodivethanks to the support of the princely government and the Directorate of Maritime Affairs of Monaco, have decided to join together to pool their skills. At the end of March, the wreck of the tugboat Le Toulonnais, immersed from 1991 in the port of Monaco by 30 meters, was moved in the territorial waters of Monaco (at the foot of Oceanographic Museum of Monaco at a depth of -30 meters) to offer divers, scientists, professional fishermen and future generations an artificial underwater reef. This reef, in the form of a boat, thus becomes a privileged and unique place in the region, as a diving site but also as a scientific observation base and as a fish reservoir. The inauguration will take place, with great fanfare, tomorrow Sunday April 13 ...