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Light & Motion has announced the introduction of the NEW Mako housing for the first ever 3 chip Video, 3 megapixel Still camera, Sony DCR-PC1000.  Available accessories include a Super Wide Angle lens that increases the angle of coverage and a 2.5” color Monitor Back.

We’ve received the announcement for the 6th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings, October 14 & 15, 2005 at the state-of-the-art, large-format theater at the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park.  Continue reading for more details and how to enter.

UPDATE - Spot filled.  Thank you! Thurs, Mar 24 - We’ve just had a another last-minute cancellation (due to medical reasons) on our upcoming Wetpixel Bahamas Shark Expedition, which leaves this Sunday out of West Palm Beach, Florida.  We leave from Riviera Beach at 6pm on Sunday, March 27th, and return at 8am on Monday, April 4th.  Please ASAP if you are interested!  For more information, see our post in the forums, or see the trip report from last year.

DivePhotoGuide.com launched in beta during the Beneath the Sea show this past weekend. Currently, divers and photographers can sign up for a free beta-membership with access to photo galleries from some of the top underwater photographers in the world, photo contest calendars and breaking news.

Wetpixel members storm the floor at Beneath the Sea 2005 and send in photographs and reports of the largest consumer dive show in America.  BTS is held at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, NJ.  Special thanks to Larry Oberlander, Jason Heller, Terry Schuller, and Al Vinjamur!

The maritime company Kongsberg Simrad is now offering a digital still camera housing for deep diving work.  This 5-megapixel housed camera system is rated for 250 meters. According to the manufacturer: “The oe14-308 is a digital still colour camera ruggedly designed for use by the commercial diver.  When used with the dedicated flashgun (oe11-342) flash synchronisation is achieved via an optical link.” We’re not sure which camera the housing is designed for, but since it uses a 1/1.8 inch CCD and 38 - 114mm lens we can probably guess.

Celebrate the Sea 2005 is making a final call for entries for their Celebrate the Sea 2005 / Asian Geographic Nature Imagery Competition. 

After some poking around, I managed to find the link for downloading an entry form: (general info | pdf)

Continue reading for the full press release.

For the last five years I’ve been traveling to Hornby Island, BC to dive and play with the Stellar sea lions that migrate there during the winter months to wait to feed on the annual herring spawn. They are an incredibly friendly bunch who are accustomed to divers visiting and interacting with them.

This year we ran into one special pup who appeared to be “instrumented"…

“The London International Dive Show (LIDS) is the first big dive show of the year in United Kingdom. One would have thought that the near Artic conditions and inches of snowfall in London would have deterred all but the most hardy from attending. This was not however the case. The crowds gathered in large numbers at the Excel exhibition centre yet again to attend the largest LIDS show to date with over 250 exhibitors offering all manner of diving and diving related services...”

Also in the article are photographs of Hugyfot’s HFN D70 Delrin Housing for the Nikon D70.

Ikelite wrote us to inform us that the Olympus C-7070 camera fits into their existing C-5060 housing by simply peeling off a rubber bumper.  This makes a nice migration if C-5060 camera trouble is ever experienced.  Ike’s Olympus housings also provide conversion circuitry, allowing real Olympus TTL control for Ikelite SubStrobes.