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You Tube to accompany Toronto Star Whale Shark article

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The Toronto Star has begun airing videos on its popular website thestar.com, to accompany in print articles. When i visited Atlanta, the Aquarium staff shot a video of my dive in the Whale Shark tank. George Socka added music and edited the video for use on the Star website. Ultimately the video did not run (they didn't realize there wasn't going to be any talking ... its all underwater) so it is now posted on You Tube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=99HXO_I_v94

Whale Shark Sidebars

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Sidebar #1 Getting in touch Georgia Aquarium 225 Baker St Atlanta, Georga (404) 581-4000 Register for Swim With The Gentle Giant Experience at www.georgiaaquarium.org Sidebar #2 Indoor Diving for Scuba Tourists The Atlanta Aquarium is not the only place you can dive indoors. Other locations that open their doors (and pools) to scuba tourists include: Epcot Centre – Disneyland, Orlando, Florida. The Seas with Nemo & Friends is a 6-million-gallon indoor aquarium with more than 65 species of marine life, including sharks. $150 per dive. Bonne Terre Mine – Bonne Terre, Missouri. The Bonne Terre lead mine flooded in the sixties. Qualified divers are escorted to see mining artifacts, and spooky tunnels. $65.00 per Dive The Florida Aquarium. Located in Tampa, Florida the large aquarium has a Dive With the Sharks Programme in Shark Bay. $150 per dive Blue Water Aquarium. Chester UK. Dive in 10 year old aquarium and see one of Europe's largest collections of sharks, £199 per dive Ne

Talking to the Whale Shark keeper - story written for Diver Magazine website

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Writing for Diver Magazine's Website I have been helping add content to Diver Magazine's website (divermag.com). There is a real person power shortage at Diver's headquarters. They are down an employee or two and keeping the website going appears to be a catch as catch can assignment. Most of the material I have written for the site never has been posted. For some reason there is a problem posting photographs on the site. During September I wrote to the Georgia Aquarium and conducted an email interview about two new whale sharks they had been given by an aquarium in Taiwan. The story, picture and interview have been lanquishing in my growing file of not-yet published stories. So, before the factoids raised by the Georgia Aquarium are stale dated, I have decided to run the story and photo on this web page. Whale Sharks and the Aquarium Keeper Early this summer the Georgia Aquarium welcomed two new live whale sharks to their Ocean Voyager exhibit. The whale sharks, both m