Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Crew fled grouper fish shoot

400,000 VW cheats still not fixed Losing heart over human anatomy

-

NEARLY 400,000 Volkswagen motors in the UK caught up in the German giant’s emissions scandal have yet to be fixed.

The Commons Environmen­tal Audit Committee said two years on just twothirds of 1.2 million cars with cheat software have been updated. Chair Mary building and no sign of spawning, they end the dive.”

The team were not injured by the sharks as they were wearing chain mail suits and helmets as a precaution. But during the feeding frenzy the divers lost contact with their boat through a technical glitch.

Producer Rachel Butler said: “We’ve all dived with sharks on multiple occasions so we had some idea of what to expect. That said, diving at night with a lot of equipment, in a very remote location and with Creagh said: “It is essential vehicles adhere to emissions regulation­s. The Department of Transport must take responsibi­lity for ensuring these fixes are completed as soon as possible.”

Volkswagen said the fix is voluntary and not a safety recall. a strong current, while wearing a metal suit is by no means easy – let alone the hundreds of sharks in the area. A recent study has counted a peak of 700 sharks in that area, making it the densest aggregatio­n of grey reef sharks on any coral reef.

“It was worrying when we lost signal because we were extremely remote, 4,000 miles from the nearest major landmass. Although I knew the sharks weren’t really interested in the divers there were other concerns – decompresc­urrent ONE in three people do not know where their heart lies, a worrying study found.

And just four out of 10 can tell you the stomach’s whereabout­s in the body.

Many of those quizzed in the research, published by Anatomical Sciences Education, also struggled to pinpoint sion, equipment failure, losing the boat. If anything had happened it could have been very serious.

“The sharks feed on reef fish and hunt mainly at night. Sharks do sometimes detect weak electrical currents given off by metallic objects and a few did bump the cameras as they went past.

“That’s how sharks check out an unfamiliar object in the water.”

The team tried to film the spawning the next day – but had missed the crucial hour.

Thankfully, they went on to clock up several thousand hours diving with the grouper – including round the clock sessions the following year when they were due to spawn, to capture the event.

Rachel added: “The resultant shots are really quite spectacula­r.”

Blue Planet: Coral Reefs is on BBC1 on Sunday at 8pm. other major organs including the liver, spleen, bladder and pancreas.

Lancaster University’s Dr Adam Taylor said the lack of knowledge could be bad for health. He added: “If people do not know where organs are, campaigns are unlikely to have much impact on them.”

 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom