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.
Tawali Dive Resort’s unique location on the northern coast gives access to the best dive sites in Milne Bay: pristine coral reefs, muck diving & WWII wrecks
It comes around each year – and so does the same old trash: single-use cups, single use water bottles, straws, single-use containers, plastic shopping bags and butts, butts and more butts. But there are solutions.
Wherever you’re sitting in Australia right now, it’s time once again to immerse yourself in the wonders of the ocean without getting your feet wet. The Ocean Film Festival Australia hits cinemas across the country today.
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.
A third novel semi-submersible vessel to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is being developed in Havana with backing from London financiers. The device has already completed sea trials.
Guest blogger, Stan Bugg, DAN Asia-Pacific Director and Instructor, presents some top tips, and Diveplanit’s own correspondent Simon, provides the contrasting real life experiences, like the time he didn’t do a buddy check and stepped off a boat without his mask on!
