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	Thanks for visiting our Website! Our goal is to give our web site visitors a really fun, informative, and visually stunning site. We have colorful photo galleries, regularly updated photo hints, dive travel news, equipment specials and much more! Look around and spend some time enjoying the beauty of the sea. You can find out more about our company Rainbowed Sea Tours,


	but if you would like to know more about us personally, you can read both Chris Newbert's professional biography or Birgittes Wilms' professional biography. It's all here!

Please note: all photographs and text anywhere in this web site are copyrighted, WITHOUT EXCEPTION. We encourage you to look and to enjoy for free. But copying any image, downloading and saving any image onto a computer storage system, using any image in another web site, using any image as computer screen "wallpaper", or any other unauthorized use or reproduction of any image in this site is strictly forbidden and subject to severe legal penalties.


	Stay Tuned! PNG for 2004!

We don't have things completely worked out as of this moment, but chances are excellent we'll be returning to Milne Bay in the Spring of 2004! So watch this page over the next few weeks for the first announcement of our 2004 Papua New Guinea Milne Bay dive tour program. This is one of our very favorite and most popular destinations and these will be Limited Participation Tours, so you may want to call our office and get on the waiting list to be called as soon as the particulars are finalized. There's no obligation!


	Next Dive Tour with Chris and Birgitte:




		copyright © 2003 by Chris Newbert

We return to the fabled Galapagos Islands on March 8 through April 2 for a three week tour aboard the Sky Dancer. Galapagos is THE big action capitol of the diving world, and our 21 day dive trip is the only such program offered of this duraton anywhere. If you are a big animal addict there is no destination like Galapagos. For information on this tour any dive travel related questions, you can email Phyllis in our Kona office, or call our toll free number: 800-762-6827.


	Now on-line: our latest *Winter-Spring 2003 Newsletter!*

After a two year drought, I finally got around to writing a new newsletter! (Ambitious, aren't I?) Inside you will read about:

* Our incredible, limited time offer for Free Dive Tours to the Solomon Islands!

* Our upcoming Three Week Tour to the Galapagos!

* The shocking truth behind the real reason I haven't written a newsletter recently!

* The incredible Subeye Reflex Camera, our favorite camera of all time!

* The Last Call for the famous RS 2x Teleconverter -- only a limited supply remaining!

* Some other great gear that we are personally using, and why we love it.

* Other cool news from the past year to fill the remaining page space!


	Birgitte Wilms inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame

Hey, that's no surprise to me. Birgitte's always been tops in my personal Hall of Fame, (along with my mother of course!) But now she's been similarly recognized by a larger and no doubt a more significant audience not for her incalculable and heroic contributions to my comfort and happiness, but for her contributions to the diving world in the field of The Arts. She was thus honored at the 26th Annual Beneath the Sea Undersea Exposition in New Jersey on March 22, 2002, joining many of the world's past and present leading women in the field of diving. Not bad for someone who is just 36 years old (and blonde!)


	Address change for Rainbowed Sea Tours!


	The new address and phone numbers for Rainbowed Sea Tours, Inc. are as follows:

Rainbowed Sea Tours, Inc.
74-5590 Luhia Street (new!)
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740

Toll Free: (800) 762-6827 (same as before)
FAX: (808) 329-2608 (new!)
In Hawaii: 326-7752 (same as before)


	New Picture of the Month:


	Mating Dragonets. Visit our gallery to see other new photos!


		Dive Tour Information

	We have copies of our flyers for our dive tour programs to the Solomon Islands and Galapagos, plus info on our underwater photo seminars and more!


	copyright © 1997 by Chris Newbert


	Three Week Galapagos Program for 2003!

It is the ultimate in big game diving, home to the most astounding shark schooling activity in the world. It is a place where the multi-layered fish schools can block out the sun, where you can dive with orcas, immerse yourself in a school of 10,000 tuna, or watch in awe as a 45 ft. whale shark glides by. At the end of the day, you can walk in Darwin's footsteps on islands choked with wildlife. There is no place like Galapagos Join us in




		copyright © 2001 by Chris Newbert


	March of 2003 for the only thee week / 20 diving-day Galapagos tour in the world!


	Photo Pro Tour Program


	We have re-defined and re-designed the concept of our personally hosted dive tours. Read all about our trips dedicated to helping you obtain the finest professional caliber results with your underwater photography! We're calling them our ``Photo Pro Tours". But they are not just for photographers, they are for everyone with a special love of the sea!


	The LAST of the NIKONOS RS 2x Teleconverters in stock

Look in our gear section for details, photos and ordering information on our exclusive product, the Nikonos RS 2x Teleconverter which we have been importing from Germany. If you are using the Nikonos RS, you must have this lens! Turn your 50mm macro lens in a 100mm macro lens! Every RS user's dream has come true. But with the RS out of production for several years, the 2x Teleconverter will also stop production. We have all that are left IN STOCK and available for immediate shipment. But there will be no more, so get yours while they last.


	Quiz Question: What happens when you combine large marine animal specialist Douglas Seifert with a Nikonos RS, 50mm macro lens and our exclusive 2x Teleconverter? Click for the answer!


	Autographed Books for Special Occasions

Looking for personalized and unique gifts? Well, inside you will also find information for ordering either of our two award winning books,

Within a Rainbowed Sea

In a Sea of Dreams. That's right, you can get personally inscribed and autographed copies of both books. Why not give someone special... heck, even yourself (for who could be more special than you?) ... something that will last for years -- the beauty of the sea.

In a Sea of Dreams is the recent winner of the World Grand Prize for the Best Book of Underwater Photography.


	Signed photographic art prints available from our Underwater Photographic Gallery




		copyright © 1998 by Chris Newbert


	Kindly visit our Newbert and Wilms Gallery of Underwater Photography for a small sampling of our images available as signed photographic art prints. Any image appearing within this website may be ordered as print, along with most photos from either of our two books. Our gallery has been recently updated to provide *much faster downloads!*


	Different sizes are available, with different finish and mounting options. Visit our print ordering department for a complete description of the prints, prices and ordering procedure.


	Chris Newbert receives First Annual Wyland Foundation Award for Underwater Still Photography


	*Chris Newbert joins Jacques Cousteau, Lloyd Bridges, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Jimmy Buffet, and others as special inaugural honorees*

Chris became the first recipient of the Wyland Foundation Award for Underwater Still Photography at the First Annual Wyland Foundation Awards Ceremony in Hollywood. This nationally televised extravaganza featured celebrity presenters from the entertainment and sports industry. Chris not only received this prestigious award, but his photographs were selected for the big screen background stills for this gala event. Other honored personalities included posthumous awards to Jacques Yves Cousteau and Lloyd Bridges. Living recipients in addition to Chris included Jimmy Buffet, Sting, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Ted Danson, Dan Fogelberg, Bob Talbot and Al Gore among others.


	Chris Newbert and Birgitte Wilms honored as the first underwater photographers ever to receive a feature portfolio in the Photography Yearbook 1998

For over 50 years the Photography Yearbook has featured the work of the world's finest photographers, and is generally considered the single most important volume of photography published annually. The 1997 edition drew material from over 10,000 submissions from 28 countries. Out of the some 200 hundred photos published in each volume, a select few photographers are distinguished with major feature portfolios. For the first time in the history of this prestigious publication, the work of not one, but two underwater photographers has been honored with a feature portfolio.




	copyright © 1997 by Chris Newbert


	The Photography Yearbook 1998 has recognized the innovative style and artistic excellence of the underwater images of Chris Newbert and Birgitte Wilms, and their leadership in the field of underwater photography.


	E-mail

We can be reached by E-mail at chris@rstours.com or birgitte@rstours.com.

From March 8 through April 2, 2003 we will be out of the country, diving in the Galapagos Islands, and therefore not reachable by email. During that time, please contact our office directly. All inquiries related to our dive tours should be sent to Phyllis Dresie.

Consult our Master Calendar for other dates when we will be unable to quickly respond to E-mail.

Did you see it all? Well don't worry if you didn't -- neither have I! So if you found any problems with the site, please email me and let me know.

Bye for now and visit us again!




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