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(Dive Travel Business News - January 31, 2012) -- Blue magazine, the first print and online magazine focused exclusively on the Caribbean's numerous dive and ecotourism attractions, that launched its first edition in late 2010, continues its successful international promotion of the Caribbean dive market. After only one year in publication, Blue’s newest and current issue, will be in select areas of Barnes & Noble bookstores in the US from February. Exquisite multipage spreads will feature the amazing dive destinations of Saba, Grenada and the British Virgin Islands.

The exclusive niche-market publication has grown considerably in popularity, using its ability to showcase the region's most alluring dive destinations with  photography and editorial that blends culture and other activities related to nature or water. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - January 29, 2012) -- Diveheart will conduct its 3rd Annual International Adaptive Scuba Diving Symposium on February 17, 2012 , from 1 pm - 4 pm at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, in the Hyatt Midway Room as part of the Our World Underwater Show in Chicago, Ilinois.  Featured speakers include, Sara Klass (Director of Spinal Cord Injury Service, Shriners Hospital for Children), Dr. Richard A. Roller (Center for Hyperbaric Medicine, Duke University Medical Center) and Jim Elliott (President & Founder of Diveheart).  The program is proudly Sponsored by Our World-Underwater, Midwest Dive News and Diveheart. 

Founded in 2001, Diveheart Foundation is a non-profit tax exempt 501 (C) (3) national organization chartered in the state of Illinois.  The purpose of Diveheart is to provide and support educational SCUBA diving and snorkeling experience programs that are open to any child, adult, or veteran with a disability with the hope of providing both physical and psychological therapeutic value to that person. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - January 27, 2012) -- Fueled by the Arab Spring, changes in US policy and economic reforms, Cuba is enjoying one of the best tourist seasons ever.  Last year Cuba had it's best year ever with 2.7 million visitors but observers are predicting that this year should beat that number.  The political stability and lack of crime in tightly controlled Cuba are strong lures for visitors. Clean Cuban beaches are also an attraction.

This high season has also seen a resurgence in visitors from Europe. Cuba has attracted many Europeans who would have gone to North Africa but balked because of the "Arab Spring" uprisings, tourism officials say.

Cuban Americans have been flooding into Cuba since U.S. President Barack Obama lifted restrictions for them to travel to their homeland in 2009. But now the number of other American visitors is climbing after Obama changed regulations in 2011, making it easier for non-Cuban Americans to enter a country the US trade embargo made off-limits for the past 50 years. read more »

THE BAHAMAS—JANUARY 24, 2012— Dive legend and businessman Neal Watson has been re-elected for another two-year term as President of the Bahamas Diving Association.

Stuart Cove, owner of Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas in Nassau and Stuart Cove’s Tiger Beach Safaris on Grand Bahama Island, was re-elected vice president.

Watson and celebrated marine artist, scientist and conservationist Dr. Guy Harvey joined forces last year to open Neal Watson’s Dive Bimini at the Bimini Big Game Club in Alice Town. read more »