Can Corals Adapt? Katherine Dziedzic, a PhD student from Oregon State University (OSU), is looking at how corals can adapt to climate change. To understand how corals adapt to warmer ocean temperatures, she is looking at the DNA and RNA…
AirBuddy Is A Personal Compressor For Shallow Dives
AirBuddy AirBuddy is a compact a tankless diving system that was first introduced in 2016. The AirBuddy offers 45 minutes of diving time at a depth of up to 12 meters (40 ft) and eliminates the need for a traditional scuba…
Japan’s Largest Coral Reef Hit Hard By Coral Bleaching
Japanese Coral Bleaching News from the Japanese government today shows that more than 70 percent of the country’s largest coral reef is dead due to warm temperatures. While the headline sounds dire, the decline of coral health in Seiseishoko reef did…
U.S. Navy Dolphins To Help Save Endangered Vaquita Porpoises
Vaquita In Danger With only 60 individual Vaquita Porpoises left in the wild, the U.S Navy is stepping in and will deploy specially trained bottlenose dolphins to help protect this vulnerable species. The dolphins are trained to search for underwater mines…
Apeks MTX-R Regulator Now Shipping
MTX-R Regulator The new MTX-R regulator by Apeks is an extremely cold water regulator developed in accordance with the United States Navy Experimental Dive Unit. We got out first look at the MTX series regulators are DEMA 2016. This cold…
Sharks At Our Wedding
SHARKS AT OUR WEDDING By Dirck Zadeh In the late summer of 2013 my brother got married to his girlfriend Myrthe. We all went to Marrakech for a sun-drenched 3 day wedding and we all had a lovely time. When…
360Rize Introduces The SeaDak Underwater Housing For Kodak Pixpro Camera
360SeaDak Underwater Housing Attention all underwater 360 filmmakers, 360Rize has just introduced a new housing to their lineup. This housing was released at the consumer electronics show (CES) and is currently available for pre-order of their website. The 360SeaDak is a…
Texting Underwater Could Soon Become A Reality
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and its AMEBA (A Mechanically Based Antenna) team are building radio transmitter that could open previously impossible communication channels. AMEBA is in the process of developing portable ULF, or ultra-low-frequency (1Hz to 3kHz),…
Top 10 Reef Divers Stories From 2016
Top 10 Stories of 2016 2016 has been a fantastic year for us, we started Reef Divers in March 2016 to share our passion for scuba diving and the marine environment with the world. Thank you to all our supporters,…
Oddball Reef System Symbiosis
Symbiotic relationships are among the most interesting aspects of this hobby. A coral reef is a battlefield for real estate; however, there are still amazing examples of cooperation between completely different animals. Everyone is very familiar with clownfish and anemones,…