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Adventurous diving is irrevocably linked to air travel, but if we divers are to be ecologically responsible, should we consider giving up globe-trotting to fin through exotic dive sites? After all, human-induced climate change is caused, by and large, by carbon emissions, and according to a study published in Nature Climate Change in May, eight […]

There are seven species of sea turtle: green, loggerhead, hawksbill, leatherback, flatback, olive ridley and Kemp’s ridley. They can be identified by their different jaw structures and shell shapes, and are found in tropical and subtropical waters around the globe. Sea turtles have lived in our oceans for more than 100 million years. But they […]

Restoration Project Increases Fish Stocks Fivefold A project using former dynamite fishermen to protect and restore coral reefs has had a dramatic impact on an island in Indonesia with fish stock in protected areas increasing by as much as fivefold in two years. The programme was set up by the French non-profit Coral Guardian in the isolated […]

By Leo Fielding – SDI/TDI Proper hydration is essential for technical diving. Your body weight is nearly two-thirds water. However, all too often, divers drink too little, too late or drink fluids that don’t hydrate them properly. Many divers also don’t consider drinking water once a dive is underway. Leading technical divers have long known the importance […]

Q : Why are some divers more susceptible to DCS? A: You may have heard of divers who fly less than 12 hours after diving with no negative impact and others that wait a longer period who end up with symptoms of DCI and wondered why this happens. Dr John Parker, a diving physician and Senior […]

A new scientific study published in PeerJ – the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences has tracked juvenile whale sharks across the Philippines, emphasizing the importance of the archipelago for the species. The study is the most complete tracking study of whale sharks in the country, with satellite tags deployed on different individuals in multiple sites. The […]

‘…the clearness of the water afforded me one of the most astonishing and beautiful sights I have ever beheld.  The bottom was absolutely hidden by a continuous series of corals, sponges, actinic, and other marine productions  of magnificent dimensions, varied forms, and brilliant colours. The depth varied from about twenty to fifty feet, and  the […]

By Joshua Copping and Bryce Stewart The whale shark is the largest fish in the world, but much of its lifecycle remains shrouded in mystery. These giants gather in just a handful of places around the globe – something which has long baffled scientists – but our new research has started to explain why. A […]

Scientists from Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines (LAMAVE), Tubbataha Management Office (TMO) and the Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) have successfully tagged a 3.5-metre tiger shark and three grey reef sharks as part of a long-term study in Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park. The research expedition between 22 May and 2 June is the latest in the four years that the organizations […]

From getting stuck in nets to eating plastic that they think is food, creatures worldwide are dying from material we made. BY NATASHA DALY Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from […]