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הרצאה על איי המטמון, כרישים וצוללת צהובה

הופעות בתקשורת הישראלית

מפורטים כאן 2 לינקים להופעות שלי בתקשורת הישראלית

("YNET") הופעה ראשונה היא במדור "קליק לטבע" באתר החדשות באינטרנט

בלינק שני ניתן לראות הופעה קצרה שלי בשידור ישיר בתוכנית של רפי רשף בערוץ 10

YNET = http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3468495,00.html

רפי רשף = http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=521391&TypeID=1&sid=126

January in Israel

Snow in the north and desert rivers in the south. Skiing at 2000 meters and hiking at minus 400 meters. I am not talking about an adventure around the world...I am talking about one month in the country of Israel ! January is winter here. That means it snows on Mount Hermon, the northern most point in Israel and it rains in the Dead Sea, in the south of the country. I arrived in Israel this January after many years of absence and took this month to reconnect with the unique landscape and geography of this country.
I forgot to mention that all the above can be seen and done in one day ! Israel is only some 600 kilometers long and less than 200 wide, but has an amazing variety of climates, colors and terrains. I am sure every month of the year in this land will bring new exciting and original sites to my eyes.

Deepwater Shark !

"Shark ! Shark !" I yelled as i noticed something big moving on the sand below us. We were 600 feet underwater, inside the DeepSee Submersible at Cocos Island. I havebeen working here for the last 5 years as dive guide and submersibile pilot. My dream had always been to discover a new species, preferebly a shark. Here i was, in a submarine, at a depth and location were no man has been before and my dream had come true. I was co-pilot on this dive, Avi was the pilot and we also had a tourist passenger. We were coming up from a dive to 1000 feet along the "break" in the Cocos plateau. Avi decended back above the sand and we started following this 12 foot shark. I was able to get good video footage of the shark using the submersible's external high definition camera. Later onbard the mothership M/V Sea Hunter, we were able to identify the shark as Echinorinos cookei or b y it's commun name - Prickley shark. I had a smile on my face for the next week as this was the first ever recorded sighting of this shark at Cocos island and I was the one that found it. During the months to come we sighted this shark various times at depths of up to 1300 feet and on certain dives we were able to see up to 5 different individuals.

Discovering Malpelo Island

After more than 40 hours of open ocean journey, your fate in the hands of the weather, you arrive. A desert looking rock breaking the water line, in the middle of the ocean… That is Malpelo, a lone pacific island belonging to Colombia.

The first time I saw Malpelo, it looked like a painting, a man made picture, not fitting into my logic. Above water, Malpelo is a 376 meters tall sharp rock with no vegetation, giving it the look of a mountain in the desert. When you approach it, you start to see the rock covered with snow looking white spots. Looking closer you recognize the thousands of masked boobie (Sula dactylatra granti) birds nesting on the bare rock. Underwater, Malpelo drops to approximately 4000 meters, making it a very impressive dive site. The desert appearance of the rock disappears the moment you put your face underwater. Schools of fish, rays, and sharks are everywhere, with a background of soft and hard coral. The most unique feature I found at Malpelo was the congregations of the fine spotted moray eels (Gymnothorax dovii). This phenomenon is unique and very impressive. I spent many dives looking for crevasses and caves were the eels liked to group together and many more dives photographing them. Malpelo is a true isolated desert oasis, rich with above and underwater life, making it an ideal destination for any adventure and nature lover.