Louise Southerden attended last night’s ‘Shark Meeting’ at Lennox Head and was disappointed to find an overwhelming support for shark culling.
Yvonne McKenzie, based on Australia’s own Christmas Island, shares her underwater world with Diveplanit.
How did you get into underwater photography in the first place? – Well, ever since I was a young teenager, I always loved taking photos and never went anywhere without a camera. Even today, I still remember my first “camera”: a flat rectangle shape, yellow and black in colour, made of plastic where the flash and 35mm film took up most of the space and left very little room for a “lens”
Q1: Explain how you got into underwater photography in the first place. David Faulks: “My interest started from watching others in the water capturing fantastic images and spending many hours talking about what they had seen and photographed during a photo shoot out on board the Ocean Trek at Jervis Bay during the 2012 October […]
Today is World Oceans Day and this year, the theme is Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet, with a focus on stopping plastic pollution. Here are 7 ways to help.
Various SCUBA divers who like underwater photography or videography explain how they ended up with the camera rig they have and how that suits their style of underwater photography.
Encounter with a Hammerhead shark diving Sipadan Island in the Celebes Sea off Sabah Malaysia.
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The octopus is the smartest invertebrate on the planet with better capabilities than a Terminator 2 model T-1000 – and we like to eat them.
Spearfishing versus underwater photography? Keen diver, snorkeler and sometime Diveplanit guest blogger Rod Eime, muses on his transformation from wide-eyed snorkeler and spear fisherman to would-be protector of all marine life (if he only could).
Would you like to get up close and personal with some NSW locals? There’s nothing better than meeting sharks in their local natural habitats and in NSW, nothing safer.
Our local shark is the grey nurse (Carcharius taurus) which grows to about 3 metres and though it looks fierce there are no reported incidents of grey nurse sharks harming divers – or humans for that matter.
