In July I reported on the release of Nintendo’s Forever Blue Scuba Diving game.  Now it has a new name and will be available in January 2008.

Not all games have to be about driving fast or killing everyone in the room before they kill you, and Endless Ocean is out to prove it. But can the scuba diving game really appeal or is it just a case …

Thanks to Dave at Techlife for letting us know that Nintendo has finally released Forever Blue in Japan.  Click on the link below to see a sample.  It is really cool.  Non-divers can really get a feeling for what we divers see underwater.  But to get the game, you will have to go to Japan.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rfbj/index.html

As a follow-up to the previous article on the Nintendo Wii, there is a new game soon to be available called Forever Blue.  Divers get ready!!! Check out the short video.

Engadget recently reported on Britain’s used of the Isis ROV unmanned sub to explore the depths of Antarctica.  There are other unmanned subs used to explore the depths of the oceans.  National Geographic and Woods Hole National Oceanographic Institute use REMUS.  UUV (Unmanned under water vehicles) are also used by the Navy for defense reasons.  Other unmanned submersibles can be found at NOAA …

Mixing Star Wars and scuba diving an Israeli inventor is developing an apparatus which will allow a diver to breathe underwater, without a scuba tank or regulator.  In the Star Wars Episode I, “Phantom Menace” Obi-Wan uses a small tube like device in his mouth to breathe underwater.  Israeli inventor Alon Bodner is developing a similar device.  Producing this …