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Introducing the Suunto HelO2 dive computer, for technical diving enthusiasts, at the Philippine Boat Show Sea-Expo 2010, more than just a boat show – the complete nautical lifestyle event for anyone interested in water-sports, beach resorts and he lifestyle of the rich and famous.

The new Suunto HelO2 is an advanced mixed-gas dive computer rated to 120M/393 ft, for technical diving enthusiasts who use multiple gases (such as nitrox, trimix and oxygen) to deep dive deep, for longer. Featuring the Suunto Technical RGBM algorithm and a Multi-gas Dive Planner, the HelO2 is designed to make your whole technical diving experience simpler, faster, and more flexible. The algorithm extends decompression flexibility into the world of technical diving by allowing continuous decompression.

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The Philippine Boat Show Sea-Expo 2010 is not just about boats, nor is it simply a nautical lifestyle event. The Philippine Boat Show Sea-Expo 2010 is also about introducing the latest trends and technology that make life wearable.

To lose weight is a goal of millions who want to get into the wearable lifestyle but only now is it something applicable to scuba diving. Last week GetWet spoke to Aquaventure Whitetip Dive Supply, at their Manila headquarters, to discover what was new in scuba diving in 2010,and some of the new is very surprising.

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The Philippine Boat Show SEA Expo 2010 is more than just a boat show: Sea-Expo 2010 is the only waterfront lifestyle exhibition in Asia that promotes all of the lifestyle toys and trinkets for playing and laying on the beach. Too keep cool you need Sunbrella ultraviolet resistant fabrics.

Sunbrella is the standard in ultraviolet resistant fabrics for tropical climes. BVZ Asia has the exclusive distribution rights for Sunbrella fabrics throughout most of Asia. With offices in Japan, Taiwan, China, Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand, and with the Head Office in Hong Kong, BVZ Asia has the most extensive and strongest distribution of Sunbrella fabrics anywhere in the World.

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James Bond Scuba Gear - DataMask

James Bond scuba equipment - DataMask - will be on display at the Philippine Boat Show 2009 for the first time in the Philippines. DataMask is new from Oceanic and really does change things for recreational scuba divers, professional and technical divers, and for people with certain physical handicaps, wishing to go scuba diving along side the more able-bodied.

DataMask combines technologies tested to exceed even James Bond’s rugged requirements.

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The Philippine Boat Show and SEA Exposition will give everyone who has any interest in the water a reason to be at the Mall Of Asia, Pasay City, on 20th - 23rd March, 2009. For example, in the world of marine electronics: satellite navigation, a Global Positioning System (GPSs) can now deliver accuracy to within a few metres without you having to take out a mortgage; and, fish finder, the dancing red dot depth gauge/fish finder of old has been replaced with fancy colour TV screens where the fish finder also shows size of fish.

The latest marine electronics systems combine GPS positioning, mapping, depth/height, fish finder and radar into a single unit where the only limit to the usefulness is the size of the screen you have to view all the information on.

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The Philippine Boat Show 2009 will bring beach resort toys for the boys and for the girls. Almost anything that floats will be on display and some will be demonstrated on the water at The Esplanade in front of the Mall Of Asia, Pasay City.

If you are a beach resort owner and want to find out how to tempt new guests to rate your beach resort as the best beach resort in the Philippines for on/in/under-water fun then you will find all the beach resort toys you need at the Philippine Boat Show, many of them manufactured by international companies in the Philippines.

From 1st February, 2009, the International Cospas-Sarsat Program will terminate satellite processing of distress signals from 121.5/243 MHz emergency beacons (EPIRBs and PLBs); only distress signals from the newer 406 MHz EPRIBs and PLBs will be processed. The bottom line is that if you are still carrying one of the 121.5/243 MHz EPIRBs or PLBs in February, and you find you are in significant distress, requiring immediate rescue assistance, don’t bother flicking the switch . . . instead you can make the last entry in your diary: that you should have given yourself a new, 406 for Xmas.