Plastic In The Marine Environment Two months ago, Rich Horner filmed himself swimming through a sea of plastic debris. Within a few weeks his video went viral and soon the whole world was talking about plastic waste invading the tropical…
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Win A Trip To The Bahamas With Brent Durand and Scuba Diving Magazine
Win A Trip To The Bahamas What could be better than diving with friendly dolphins in the Bahamas? How about winning a free trip, with professional underwater photographer Brent Durand!! Brent’s work is published in print worldwide, in advertising and across the…
We Removed A Ghost Net From Nusa Lembongan And It Got A Little Spooky!
Ghost Nets Do you believe in ghost nets? When it comes to destructive marine debris, nothing is quite as ominous as the dreaded ghost net. The term ghost net described fishing nets which have been lost at sea drifting in…
The Beauty in the Beast! – Learn Your Corals, To Spot Your Model
Beauty in the Beast Ok, we are all about corals, but after years of learning the basic of Underwater Macro Photography, in order to shoot our beloved corals, I noticed that many of the best UW macro-photography subjects are actually…
Stumbling on the Holy Grail of UW Photographer…
Now that we are in Bali, yesterday we decided to go the diving some of the close by, classic eastern cost dive site. We headed to Pandang Bai… This place is quite famous for white sand macro, and we knew…
Secrets Of The Bajau’s Ability To Freedive Comes Down To DNA
The Bajau people of Southeast Asia are commonly called “sea nomads” or “sea gypsies” for their traditional seafaring lifestyle. For generations, the Bajau people have built their homes above the water and spend most of their time at sea. And, from…
Asian Diver Magazine Big Blue Book – Meet The Coral Communicator!
The Coral Communicator Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the ADEX conference in Singapore. And, as many of you could have already guessed my talk was about…. wait for it… CORALS! ReefDivers.io is a website I created…
Aquabotix Releases Revolutionary SwarmDiverTM Micro USV / UUV
Aquabotix, an underwater robotics company with operations in Australia and the U.S., today released SwarmDiverTM, a micro unmanned surface vehicle (USV) and unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) that operates in a swarm. Multiple SwarmDiverTM can function simultaneously as a single coordinated…
Fukui Point (Part 2) – Coral Spotting in Northern Sulawesi
Fukui Point – Bunaken National Park Fukui point is easily one of the best coral dives in the Bunaken National Park. The shallow areas are covered in huge colonies of branching corals, and the reef slopes have some of the…
SoFi Is A Soft Robotic Fish Built For Underwater Exploration
Researchers at MIT unveiled a new take on underwater exploration, with the creation of a robotic fish with a soft undulating tail. The soft robotic fish or SoFi for short, doesn’t rely on propellers or jet-based propulsion instead, a hydraulic pump…