KSDC Eco-Tours

19/04/2015

If realized, the plan would be China’s biggest splurge on economic development in another country to date. It aims over 15 years to create a 2,000-mile economic corridor between Gwadar and northwest China, with roads, rail links and pipelines crossing Pakistan.

China to Unveil Billions of Dollars in Pakistan Investment

17/04/2015

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“We have known that these sites were not remediated all along, that they [Chevron] had just pushed dirt over top of them. We knew they were contaminated, but the big thing was that in these videos, they are actually admitting it,” said Paul Paz y Miño, the director of outreach at Amazon Watch.

“There’s no confusion that these are the sites that they claimed to remediate and that these are videos their employees made themselves showing the contamination was still there and joking about it,” he added.

Environmental advocacy group calls footage 'smoking-gun evidence,' while energy giant says it’s taken out of context

08/04/2015

http://www.scubaverse.com/giant-jellyfish-caught-on-film-by-scuba-divers/

Divers holidaying in Oman had a close encounter with what is believed to be the largest jellyfish ever encountered earlier this week. The huge creature, which its said was as big as a four-storey building, was spotted at the lesser-known dive site of Abril Narr off the coast of Muscat. “I couldn’t b…

02/04/2015

Pakistan featuring Nameera Ahmed

This Weds One will focus on working in media in Pakistan and will include a panel featuring Nameera Ahmed, a Karachi based filmmaker and the director and narrator of The Mermaid of Churna Island, and Frances Hardin, a US-based filmmaker with experience working in Afghanistan.

The discussion will be moderated by Beth Mendelson, former WIFV president and current Senior Executive Producer of Special Programming at Voice of America.

The Mermaid of Churna Island is the story of Rosheen Khan, Pakistan's first and only female SCUBA diving instructor. With the help and support of Yousuf Ali, a master scuba instructor in Karachi, she boldly pursued a career in scuba diving and broke away from her conservative upbringing. Through interviews of Khan's colleagues, her students, and Yousuf Ali, the film reveals startling elements from both her scuba career and her personal life. The Mermaid of Churna Island tells the story of a courageous woman who dared to live her dream.

The film was directed and narrated by Nameera Ahmed, a Karachi-based filmmaker, visual artist, scuba diver (PADI), a Digital Reviewer for Leonardo Reviews (Leonardo/ISAST). She also teaches at the Karachi University and other schools in Karachi.

02/04/2015

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Proposal for a Marine Park near Churna Island Yousuf Ali, Director Operation of Karachi Scuba Diving Center (KSDC), Master Instructor & Research Diver of PADI California…

30/03/2015

http://www.dawn.com/news/566912/reef-cleaning-near-karachi-shores

World Reef Cleaning Day was observed worldwide on September 25. Thousand of scuba divers in about 100 countries...

30/03/2015

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24/03/2015

Scuba Diving & Marine Environment Awareness stall at Park Tower Clifton Karachi 23rd March 2015...

Scuba Promotion

12/03/2015

https://vimeo.com/26499368

A Show Reel from wildlife cameraman Richard Brooks. Independent Filmmaker and Photographer. For more information visit: www.lightningstrikeproductions.co.uk Follow…

06/03/2015

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/earth/deep-coral-refugia/

Coral reefs face a bleak future, but survival may come from a very unlikely place—the dark, cold depths of the ocean.