Like many of you, I had a dream of swimming with manta rays. I traveled the world and logged hundreds of dives, yet I never caught sight of a single manta. I had come across different species of Mobula rays which…
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Wise Work Job Board Is Your Source For Marine Conservation Opportunities Around the World
We recently came across the Wise Work job board and knew we had to share the news with ReefDivers. After clicking through a few of the current opportunities, our first impression was to promptly spend hours daydreaming about a daily…
Captive Bred Mandarin Goby from Biota Aquariums
The mandarin goby is one of the most popular marine aquarium fish, unfortunately it is not the easiest fish to keep, and definitely not recommended for beginners. One way to make the iconic dragonet more accessible is to offer them…
Captive Bred Blue Tangs become a reality at the UF Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory
Captive bred blue tangs are no longer a dream as Rising Tide Conservation just revealed that they had successfully bred this iconic fish in captivity. The breakthrough took place at the University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab which announced that they…
PADI Women’s Dive Day 2016 With Coral Key Scuba, Colorado
To celebrate PADI’s second annual PADI Women’s Dive Day, we tracked down a local dive club in Colorado and took the plunge for our first ever lake dive. The water was a little murky and cold, but it was a…
Revillagigedo Archipelago Inscribed To UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The Revillagigedo Archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean has just been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List! The World Heritage Committee inscribed Revillagigedo and 7 other sites to the list on the last afternoon of their 40th session on July…
VIDEO: Huge Potato Grouper In Tofo Mozambique
Tofo is a popular dive destination in the Inhambane province of Mozambique and is best known for megafauna diving with Manta Ray and Whale sharks. Rich offshore upwelling currents attract all sorts of marine life to the region which makes…
Wesley Vreeswijk is the Ultimate Reefing Control Freak
In America, many of us have more than one tank, and sometimes more than one room of tanks. But for many European reefers where space is often a constraint, having a single display tank is more often the norm. Having…
Habitat Persistence Hypothesis is Rich Pyle’s exciting theory about deep reef fish
Dr. Rich Pyle is one of the undisputed pioneers of deep reef fish species habitats, and biology. Over the last thirty years, Pyle has been exploring deep mesophotic reefs and discovering new species of reef fish in these habitats at…
Sherwood Forest Dive Site, Tofo Mozambique
DIVE SITE: SHERWOOD FOREST LOCATION: TOFO, MOZAMBIQUE DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED MARINE LIFE: GO BIG OR GO HOME! Praia de Tofo, Mozambique, is located in the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane. Although still relatively unknown to most travellers, it has long been…