Turtle sanctuaries in Malaysia are becoming more and more popular with tourists, which can only be a good thing. As they grow in popularity, so does their funding.
Greening Australia today announced the results from a key phase of its Reef Aid program, with a trial to reduce sediment run-off from a Queensland station resulting in 97% Great Barrier Reef water quality improvement.
If you believe reports in mainstream media you’d think that the Great Barrier Reef is dead. Fortunately, nothing could be further from the truth, especially on the Far Northern Reefs which are alive and well, offering some of the best adventure diving in the world.
Some dive destinations lend themselves to liveaboard diving and at others there are only resorts. But what about Raja Ampat – what’s best resort or liveaboard?
Do sharks have friends? Associate Professor Culum Brown used acoustic tagging and underwater receivers to study the behaviour of sharks in Jervis Bay. His findings were published in The Lighthouse, Macquarie University’s online news platform.
Shark diving in Fiji’s Beqa Lagoon, home to two of the best shark dives in the world with divers coming from all corners of the globe to see up to eight shark species being hand fed.
Do fish have feelings? Do fish feel pain? These are questions widely debated/argued between divers and recreational fishermen, fish-eaters and vegetarians. Science say yes.
Try diving Menjangan Island and you’ll discover a side to Bali you may have thought disappeared 30 years ago. And some pretty spectacular diving.
Alice Forrest has spent much of the past few years on some of the world’s most remote islands researching Plastic Pollution in the South Pacific – specifically the amount of plastic found in commonly eaten fish. Alice’s findings have just been published, and the results are alarming.
Could Lord Howe island be the next go-to destination for technical divers? Recent exploratory dives on the island went to new depths and found new species.
