Everyone loves Shelly Beach and Fairy Bower, so why do we only have one marine sanctuary in the whole of Sydney? What if we had 10 such aquatic sanctuaries? Imagine waking up to that headline! Want to help make that a reality? Read on…
You’ll find plenty of variety diving Nelson Bay, great boat dives with guaranteed Grey Nurse Shark sightings, plus some excellent shore dives to focus on the small stuff.
Lady Elliot Island, on the southern Great Barrier Reef, has great diving year round and being just 10 km from the East Australian Current has visits from mantas, turtles and whales at different times of the year.
Win! A Swim with Whales Experience with Diveplanit and Ocean Film Festival 2016
Gili Selang is a little rock attached to the eastern-most tip of Bali’s north-east coast. It is responsible for the amazingly varied coral reef that has formed north of it, where the nutrient-rich waters of the Pacific have been slowed…
In February 2016, sea surface temperatures climbed to an astounding 33°C in the waters off the far north Queensland coast resulting in coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef. How many more significant coral bleaching events before the Reef is gone forever?
You’re a committed diver, but your Significant Other doesn’t dive … not yet anyway … which is a real shame because otherwise you were getting on surprisingly well! It’s been a few months now, and though you’ve been…
Thinking back to a dive holiday there’s usually one thing that stays in your mind it might be Palau’s mantas, Fiji’s shark feeding, and for Indonesia’s Gili Islands it was the diving with turtles.
When many divers hear ‘North Sulawesi’ they actually think ‘muck diving’ as in the infamous Lembeh Strait. But being in the centre of the Coral Triangle North Sulawesi has so much more to offer – something for everyone.
There have been a few ocean-cleanup solutions doing the social media rounds recently, but is this really the solution we’ve all been hoping for? We’re not convinced.

