Posts with the category “underwater-conservation”
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Diving Anilao with Adam Sokolski
November 12th, 2024
Anilao's underwater ecosystem is teeming with life, especially small subjects like colourful nudibranchs, frogfishes, octopuses, crabs, shrimps and even rhinopias. It is truly a haven for underwater p... Read More
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Zanzibar Dive Spots
May 21st, 2024
Zanzibar offers many diving spots accessible to divers of all levels of experience. The best dive sites are in the north, around Nungwi, and in the northeast, near Mnemba Atoll, a protected area and t... Read More
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Southern African Sea slugs
May 21st, 2024
This approach to making a field guide makes its contents much more wide-ranging and considerably more accurate, particularly in terms of distribution, than a guide produced by the observations of only... Read More
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The BOSS Of Wreck Diving
May 21st, 2024
Although intrepid hikers often explore the visible wreckage by hiking the trails from Llandudno or Hout Bay, divers who wish to explore the wrecks underwater should and can only access it by boat.... Read More
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Barry Skinstad: Award-winning Documentary Cinematographer and shark specialist
May 21st, 2024
One of the shots I got was of these big white sharks of about four, maybe 4.2 meters, swimming right over our heads. Being underwater and holding your breath while it comes overhead was mind-boggling.... Read More
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Crafting Underwater Perfection
May 21st, 2024
Get low, get close (and then closer) and look upwards while at the same time being really aware of where you are in relation to fragile reef fauna. There are some days that I see great subjects or pot... Read More
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Shore diving in Taiwan: challenges and adaptations in a unique environment
July 9th, 2023
Because of the need to finish the dive at a specific exit point (and the lack of a boat to pick you up if you don’t), navigation plays a more important role in shore diving than in most boat dives. Co... Read More
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Chuck Davis: The Blue in Black and White
April 30th, 2023
He is famous as a master of underwater black-and-white photography, but I assumed he shot digital and converted his files to black and white in Lightroom or Photoshop. Digital tools have become standa... Read More
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The Philipines: Go where the wild things are
April 30th, 2023
When you dive the Philippines, you are not just a tourist — you are collaborating to bring awareness to some of the most important reefs in the world. We hope to see you there.... Read More
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Cape Marine Research and Diver Development
March 1st, 2023
Cape Research and Diver Development is the brainchild of Mike Barron and Dylan Irion. The company is based on their previous work experiences at other worldwide marine research and conservation organi... Read More
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The Inhaca Ocean Alliance.
March 1st, 2023
Aside from being an opportunity to combine all the fields I love – sport, the ocean, community upliftment and childhood development – I had been nursing a deep wound for nearly a decade.
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Snapping Turtles
January 2nd, 2023
All seven species of sea turtles — the flatback, green, hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead, Kemp’s ridley, and olive ridley sea turtles — are listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Sp... Read More
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SAVE THE CENOTES
September 20th, 2022
An apocalyptic nightmare is threatening the fragile cenotes and underground water ways of Riviera Maya, the stretch of Caribbean coastline on Mexico’s northeastern Yucatán Peninsula.... Read More
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A victory for the cenotes: keeping up with the Mayan Train project
September 20th, 2022
he Mayan Train is a federal project crossing several Mexican states from Chiapas to Quintana-Roo, linking UNESCO heritage sites such as Palenque, Calakmul and Chichen Itza over 1,500 km of rail tracks... Read More
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Cuba’s Golden Fish
September 15th, 2022
Cuba’s multidecade efforts have fashioned one of the largest and oldest no-take coral reef marine reserves in the Western Hemisphere. What a joy to explore a fish haven spared the horror of hooks, spe... Read More
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Blue Heron Bridge
September 15th, 2022
Don’t expect colorful reefs; prepare instead for a menagerie of unusual and exotic sea life you would typically have to travel the world to see. Every dive can be a surprise — you never know what’s lu... Read More
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Sweet Spot in Time
September 14th, 2022
In the past, the ocean did not require specific policies to protect it from human actions. Polar regions and the deep ocean were protected by their inaccessibility, and returning to the same place in ... Read More
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Diving Into an Ocean Climate action plan
September 14th, 2022
Even if we solve all our other problems, we might still see the collapse of our living seas due to climate change alone. A warmer, more acidic ocean holds less dissolved oxygen, which is fine if you’... Read More
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The Edge of Extinction
September 12th, 2022
Sea otters are much more than just another pretty face. They are known as an indicator or sentinel species because what happens to sea otters reveals much about the conditions of the nearshore ocean w... Read More
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When History Seemingly Repeats Itself: DIADEMA SEA URCHIN LOSS
August 24th, 2022
Scientists are currently working to determine the cause of death for this mortality event by examining tissue samples of healthy or diseased Diadema in collections from Grenada to Florida and Mexico t... Read More
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Bonaire Inspires Hope for the Future of Coral
July 3rd, 2022
One quality problem that Bonaire’s coral nurseries have encountered is an excess of coral. “One of the main bottlenecks is outplanting, which is time-consuming and requires a skilled diver,” Virdis sa... Read More
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Great White Scavengers
June 13th, 2022
White sharks actually earned their name during the whaling era because fishermen saw flashes of their white undersides as they ate whale carcasses. As a scientist, it’s cool when your observations and... Read More
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Environmental Stewardship
May 30th, 2022
When packing for a dive outing, bring reusable water bottles, bags, utensils, and straws. Choose means of sun protection that are less harmful to marine and aquatic life. The most environmentally sust... Read More
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Going Up
April 7th, 2022
Every night as the sun slips below the horizon, countless aquatic creatures begin migrating up from the deep in what is quite possibly the greatest show on Earth. Seeking nourishment in shallow water... Read More
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Mexico’s Sardine Run
April 7th, 2022
Finding a submerged ball of sardines in the open ocean is extremely unlikely by happenstance. Successful encounters occur when divers adopt the same protocols as the seasoned skippers of the sportfish... Read More
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A Sense of Purpose
April 2nd, 2022
Christy Pattengill-Semmens, Ph.D. As co-executive director of the nonprofit Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) she oversees the Volunteer Fish Survey Project, one of the world’s largest an... Read More
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The Argonaut Octopus and the jellyfish
March 30th, 2022
The form of a shelled argonaut octopus clutching a jellyfish takes shape just as the odd couple breaks the surface and bobs in a ring of ripples. Before I can catch my breath, the octopus dives, easil... Read More
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Pool Operation: Know Before you Go
March 30th, 2022
The challenge is keeping the balance in an ever-changing environment. Any pool built for public use, whether at an aquatic complex or a hotel, should have a certified pool operator (CPO) who has the k... Read More
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Titan Meets Titanic
March 30th, 2022
Rush understood that the Titanic is the rare underwater site that billions of people recognize and would draw both interest and funding to his efforts. Once OceanGate decided to take people to the Tit... Read More
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Underwater Photographer: Fred Buyle
March 26th, 2022
Mark Addison had luck freediving with sharks in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of South Africa. He had discovered that if we waited for warm, clear water to come in over the pinnacles, we might e... Read More
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Underwater Smartphone Photography
March 26th, 2022
Smartphones with underwater housings have some advantages over large camera rigs, such as the ability to fit in smaller environments. You can use this advantage to get angles of the subjects that othe... Read More
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Chasing Weeds
March 26th, 2022
Sargassum is a floating, golden-brown macroalgae with pearl-sized air bladders that resemble grapes buoying thick leaves. Wind and waves weave together the leaves to form large, nearly impenetrable ma... Read More
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On a Mission: Critter hunting in Washington’s Salish Sea
November 30th, 2021
There’s a big difference between casual, submerged sightseeing — happy-snapping pictures of whatever you run across while blowing bubbles — and diving dedicated to carefully searching select sites, so... Read More
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Answering the Call
November 25th, 2021
In Wild Seas, his new book published by National Geographic, Thomas Peschak ponders his career path: “My life as a National Geographic photographer has been socially isolating, emotionally exhausting ... Read More
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Celebrating Seagrass
November 25th, 2021
The benefits of protecting seagrass cannot be overstated. Seagrass purifies the water, helps protect against coastal erosion, helps sustain small-scale fisheries that support communities, and increase... Read More
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The Blue Desert Conundrum
November 19th, 2021
Crystal-clear, nutrient-richwaters may exist in polar seas in the darkness of winter, but elsewhere nutrients in the presence of sunlight nourish phytoplankton, which turns the water green with chloro... Read More
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Seeking an Octopus
November 19th, 2021
New data can show that we aren’t quite as good at understanding nature as we think. New findings can cause us to reassess what we think we know about the beautiful and immensely enigmatic underwater w... Read More
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