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Tutorial: Sharpening using Lightroom View Mask
Adobe’s Lightroom Coffee Break offers quick (60 second or less) tutorials about some of the app’s useful and often more esoteric features. Benjamin Warde offers a concise guide to using the View Mask to edge sharpen images.
Princess cruise line criminally fined for deliberate illegal dumping in ocean
The Department of Justice has fined Princess Cruise Line a fine for deliberate ocean pollution. The $40 million fine is “the largest-ever criminal penalty involving deliberate vessel pollution” according to the Department of Justice. The illegal pollution was reported by a whistleblowing engineer who quit over the practices in 2013.
Call for entries: DUC Shootout 2017
The Durban Underwater Club (DUC) is calling for entries for the DUC Shootout. Entries can be captured from Mozambique to the West coast of Southern Africa, including natural inland sites in 4 categories. Images must have been taken between now and 31 May 2018.
Mexico announces biosphere reserve
Just ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Cancun, Mexico has announced a new biosphere reserve encompassing much of the Quintana Roo coastline. Mexico News Today reports that the new protected area will encompass 5.7 million hectares (22,000 sq. miles), and will include the municipalities of Isla Mujeres, Benito Juárez, Puerto Morelos, Solidaridad, Cozumel, Tulum, Bacalar and Othón P. Blanco
World’s second largest shark sanctuary formed in Kiribati
On November 18th, the nation of Kiribati announced the establishment of a shark sanctuary that bans all commercial shark fishing in the country’s national waters. The sanctuary is 3.4 million square miles, the second largest sanctuary in the entire world. The Pacific Ocean sanctuary covers an area larger than the country of India.
Recsea ships 300m rated housing for HERO5
Recsea are shipping their aluminum housing for the GoPro HERO5 Black action cam. Rated to 300m (984ft), the housing has the company’s Secure-Latch closure system and a greater O ring contact surface to ensure sealing at depth. It is fitted with an accessory shoe and is supported by range of accessories.
Borneo from Below: Episode 28
The underwater photography centric scuba web series, Borneo from Below, has returned with Episode 28. In this episode, Bertie flies to Borneo’s Kota Kinabalu, a place where you can get from the airport to diving on (an often overlooked) coral reef. The diving there even offers the opportunity to dive with sharks.
Paper suggests alternate theory for shark bites
A new paper published in the Journal of Marine Biology examines why great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) bite surfers. The traditional theory is that they mistake them for prey animals, typically seals, due to the surfer’s silhouettes from below. The paper suggest that this view is erroneous and that they tend to bite in order to identify things in their environment. (Image from Shutterstock).
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