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Search results for "snorkeling" ...
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Troubled Waters
The authors investigated a dive company in Belize after one of its customers, Abigail Brinkman, died. They found questionable practices and a history of incidents. The company, Advance Dive, and dive master Vance Cabral were found to have put people's lives at risk for profit. On Dec 14, 2006, Belize's Licensing Committee announced their decision to refuse to renew Advance Diving Tours tour operator’s license for a period of 5 years.
Tags: Scuba diving; snorkeling; Belize; Abigail Brinkman; Vance Cabral; Advance Dive; water safety; tourism; tour operators
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Aloha Al Qaeda
This story delves into wasteful spending by the Department of Homeland Security. Among other scenes are outgoing secretary Tom Ridge lounging by the pool at a resort hotel in Hawaii while other staffers swim and snorkel nearby, all on a working day and at taxpayers' expense.
Tags: government waste; war on terror; misappropriation of public funds
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Arrested Development
Outside Magazine reports on the Molokai Ranch near Maui, "where rooms run $355 a night and guests spend their days mountain biking, kayaking, snorkeling, fishing . . . the resort is the centerpiece of the Ranch's 54,000 acres." The Ranch once "had been considered as fundamental to the island's way of life, and as inextricable from its future, as the sun. But that was before Big Pineapple pulled out and poverty settled in; before Big Money came ashore with bold plans for converting the Ranch into a resort and real estate empire." Now native Molokai's are upset that the Ranch is using their natural resources, decreasing their fresh water supply and threatening their simplistic ways of life. Reporter Joe Kane provides insight on the issues.
Tags: Molokai; islands; tourism; natural resources; fishing; water; islands; industry; development