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 <title>Coral Sea Expedition with Mike Ball, Ty Sawyer and Dr Alistair Birtles</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;15th July 2010 and excited passengers boarded Spoilsport in Cairns, along with a few special guests.&amp;nbsp; Travelling onboard this expedition with the passengers were special guests Ty Sawyer (Edit&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/Coral_Sea_Diving_Minkes_liveaboard&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:03:04 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Australian Geographic Expedition Round-up</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Minke whales are incredible, being able to join them in their own environment, and on their terms is sensational.&amp;nbsp; Now imagine seven days on a dedicated Mike Ball Dive Minke Whale expedition w&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/437&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:00:43 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Japan&#039;s Largest Dive School Visits Great Barrier Reef</title>
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 <description>&lt;h2&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Papalagi Diving School dive with Dive 7 Seas and Mike Ball Dive Expeditions&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/426&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:23:31 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Critter Feature</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The Great Barrier Reef is famous for its diversity and at Mike Ball Dive Expeditions our liveaboard Spoilsport is lucky enough to visit one of the most prized regions of this reef system: the Ribbo&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/421&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 10:19:45 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Minke Whale Competition Finalists</title>
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 <description>&lt;h1&gt;The winner has been decided - congratulations to Liz Bosma!&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;During 2009-2010 Mike Ball Dive Expeditions and Dive Log Magazine have been running a joint competition.&amp;nbsp; The lucky winner o&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/minke-whale-competition&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 14:31:12 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Photo of the Year Winner Announced</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to Troy Mayne who is the overall winner of this year&amp;rsquo;s  onboard photography competition.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/409&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:36:40 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>First Minke Whale of the Year Sighted</title>
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 <description>&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;On Thursday 14th April at 8.50am, the first minke whale of the  season was spotted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/408&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:43:33 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Australian Geographic 7 Night Minke Whale Expeditions</title>
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 <description>&lt;h1 class=&quot;rtecenter&quot;&gt;AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;rtecenter&quot;&gt;Minke Whale Expedition&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h4 class=&quot;rtecenter&quot;&gt;*******ONLY&amp;nbsp;A&amp;nbsp;FEW&amp;nbsp;SPACES&amp;nbsp;LEFT  - DON&#039;T WAIT!*******&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/seven-night-minke-whale-expeditions&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:21:17 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Frog Dive Group Trip Report</title>
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 <description>&lt;h1&gt;Our Coral Sea Safari - Frog Dive Group Trip.&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h2&gt;1st to 8th October 2009 by John Warner, Frog Dive&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/399&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:06:59 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Underwater Channel features Mike Ball at Dive 2009</title>
 <link>http://www.mikeball.com/news/398</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Mike Ball Dive Expeditions were featured on the Undewater Channel at the NEC in Birmingham for Dive Show 2009.&amp;nbsp; The Underwater Channel.tv were at the Dive Show to film exclusive coverage of th&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/398&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:13:35 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Shark Revolution in the Coral Sea</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;In mid-February a team of divers walked into the Mike Ball office looking to head out to the Coral Sea.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/397&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:39:20 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>November  Shark Expedition</title>
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 <description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/sites/all/files/News/Shark_Extraordinary_Expedition_2010.png&quot;  title=&quot;Shark research and diving expedition 2010&quot; alt=&quot;Shark research and diving expedition 2010&quot; height=&quot;421&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; class=&quot;asset-align-right&quot;/&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;25 November 2010:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/394&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:35:55 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Cairns Underwater Film Festival &amp; Photo Competition</title>
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 <description>&lt;h1&gt;Cairns Underwater Film Festival and Cairns Underwater Photo Competition&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Cairns Underwater Film Festival is screening 8 of the winners of the 36th World Festival of Underwater Films di&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/383&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:21:00 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Conneticut to the Coral Sea</title>
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 <description>&lt;h4&gt;by Judie Haynie,&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Old Broad&#039;s Dive Club&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/375&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:07:17 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Merry Christmas </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/sites/all/files/News/christmas-card-2009.png&quot;  title=&quot;Christmas Card from the Great Barrier Reef&quot; alt=&quot;Christmas Card from the Great Barrier Reef&quot; height=&quot;500&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; class=&quot;asset-align-none&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:33:45 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Mike&#039;s Travels</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Mike has just returned from six weeks visiting friends and divers in Australia, UK and USA. During this time Mike also attended Dive 2009 (UK) and DEMA (USA).&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/355&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:43:16 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Win A Minke Whale Expedition </title>
 <link>http://www.mikeball.com/news/minke-whale-competition</link>
 <description>&lt;h1&gt;Win an Exotic Critter and Big Animal Expedition valued at $3462. &lt;br /&gt;Aboard Spoilsport with Barry Andrewartha and Mike Ball.&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/minke-whale-competition&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:08:32 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Underwater Australasia Video Competition</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Mike Ball Dive Expeditions have once again teamed up with Underwater Australasia to sponsor an underwater imagery competition.&amp;nbsp; This time the inaugural Video Competition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/underwater-australia&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:25:35 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Australian Geographic Society - Minke Whale Expedition</title>
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 <description>&lt;h1 class=&quot;rtecenter&quot;&gt;AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;rtecenter&quot;&gt;Minke Whale Expedition&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h4 class=&quot;rtecenter&quot;&gt;*******ONLY&amp;nbsp;A&amp;nbsp;FEW&amp;nbsp;SPACES&amp;nbsp;LEFT - DON&#039;T WAIT!*******&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/327&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:57:41 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Winner - Australia&#039;s Best Dive Experience Award!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Mike Ball Dive Expeditions were recently awarded &#039;Travelling in Australia&#039;s - Best Dive Experience&#039; award and ranked as one of Australia&#039;s &#039;20 Best Experiences&#039;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Here is what Travelling&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/306&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:13:44 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>And The Winner Is... Mike Ball Dive Expeditions Announces 2008/2009 Onboard Photo Competition Winner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to Aaron Smith who won this year&#039;s onboard photo competition.&amp;nbsp; Mike deliberated on the winner for quite some time as there were many great photographs in the running to win.&amp;amp;nb&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/underwater-photo-competition&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:27:39 +1000</pubDate>
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 <title>Mike Ball Dive Expeditions Gains Advanced Ecotourism Certification </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;On the 6th November 2007 Mike Ball Dive Expeditions was awarded an Advanced Ecotourism Certification through the Nature an&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/84&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:47:11 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Coming of Age – Trevor Jackson - Rebreather Diving on Mike Ball Dive Expeditions </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;It started to get a bit repetitive. People glancing at their watches to check that it wasn&amp;rsquo;t April the 1st, or waiting for a punch line. &amp;ldquo;Sorry, you fair dinkum Trev?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/rebreather-diving-article&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:37:00 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Encountering Mutual Respect– Viarne Mischon </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Writer, Viarne Mischon, came aboard Spoilsport for a Minke Whale Expedition in June this year.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/minke-whale-article&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:34:18 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;In 2004, at Grand Cayman Island, Mike Ball joined diving great like Jacques Yves Cousteau and Hans Hass as an inductee into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/scuba-diving-hall-fame&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:30:39 +1100</pubDate>
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 <title>Mike Ball Dive Expeditions announced as a &quot;Fodor&#039;s Choice&quot; Travel Experience</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Fodor&amp;rsquo;s Travel, the foremost name in travel publishing, has named Mike Ball Dive Expeditions as a 2008 Fodor&amp;rsquo;s Choice selection.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeball.com/news/dive-travel-award&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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