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Angel Fitor authors 'Tanganyika, Africa's Inland Sea'
Last Update: 06 February 2008 02:27 AM
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Author: Matt Segal ( segal3 )
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Wetpixel member Angel Fitor (Tide) is proud to announce the release of his new book, Tanganyika, Africa’s Inland Sea. Fitor calls Tanganyika, the longest African lake, “probably the most amazing and fascinating freshwater environment in the world. It is also an almost completely unseen underwater realm where evolution has produced one of the most striking fish assemblages on Earth.”
At 192 pages, this hardcover coffee table book holds nearly 300 photographs of fighting cichlids, pygmy shell-dwelling fishes, and other colorful and distinct species, and can be shipped around the world. Visit Tanganyika, Africa’s Inland Sea for sample pages and more information…
I am looking forward to seeing this book. These African rift lakes are in fact the homes of amazing evolutionary adaptive radiations of fishes. So far, they have gotten more attention among aquarium keepers than among divers. I can also recommend The “Cichlid Fishes: Nature’s Grand Experiment in Evolution by George W. Barlow”.
My question is: Isn’t it dangerous from a disease/parasite point of view to dive in tropical African freshwater?
Posted by Klausi on 02/04 at 01:10 AMYes it IS dangerous. Besides having crocs, tigerfish and all sorts of ecto- and endoparasites in its waters, Tanganyika also hosts a very sizeable population of Water cobras Boulengerina annulata, a free-swimming elapid (front-fanged venomous snake with a powerful neurotoxic venom) with a potentially fatal bite. And medical care is obviously not readily available or reliable, so that tends to make things even worse. I, for one, would hesitate in diving there on a regular basis.
Posted by Andrea on 02/06 at 02:27 AM