Thinking of a holiday where you can go diving and a lot more besides? Maybe somewhere where you could take your partner and your teenage kids? Even get them all introduced to diving in a place with guaranteed good vis and plenty to see?
Biodiversity#13: Octopus. A cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda, literally meaning ‘eight-foot’. Their bodies have no internal or external hard parts and they have been known to squeeze through very small apertures – mainly in order to escape!
Diveplanit’s marine archeology buff, Roderick Eime, dives Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands and finds a historic WWII aircraft with a story.
7 steps to get ready for your next underwater adventure, including checking over the scuba gear, and looking for some new places to dive.
Plastic pollution in our oceans is a man-made catastrophe that feels too big for us to solve. One new Australian project, The Seabin, aims to do that & more.
Diveplanit blogger Harriet Spark writes about plastic pollution and exactly why single use plastic straws suck.
Scuba For Change has developed an innovative social enterprise that aims to resolve the wrongful outflow of tourism dollars in developing countries.
I love any opportunity get up close and personal with megafauna: sharks, rays and turtles. So the Shark Dive Xtreme experience on offer at Manly Sea Life Sanctuary, which allows you to get close enough for eye contact, certainly appeals.
Diveplanit contributor Rod Eime is on location in Manila at the first ever Philippines Diving Resort Travel Expo. Here are his first impressions…
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