ENVIRONMENT: BEING AN ENVIRONMENTLY CONSCIOUS DIVER
When you start your diving adventures, one of the most important aspects is understanding of the environment and learning respect for it. With just a bit of knowledge about the environment, being an environmentally friendly diver can leave a positive impact. Especially with each year diving becoming more and more popular all around the world, there are many things which can do to reduce the problems caused when diving.
5 Things Divers Love About Diving Shipwrecks
Diving is always exciting. With every adventure beneath the waves, you encounter a brand new seascape, just waiting to be explored. Diving shipwrecks, however, offers a particularly unique experience that you can’t get anywhere else. Here are some things people love about them. 1. They’re Often Close To Shore While some shipwrecks lie at the […]
San Francisco: World’s first marine cleansing system launched
The ocean cleaning begins with the removal of plastic waste from the large Pacific trash. The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit organization developing technologies to clean the oceans of plastic, launched the world’s first marine protection system from San Francisco Bay on September 8, 2018 read more…
Rising water temperatures change the habitats of lobsters
Rising temperatures at the bottom of the Atlantic force American lobsters (H. americanus) further off the coast and into more northerly waters, according to a new study led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). read more…
Magic nights of coral spawning
On certain nights, around full moon, corals have their tryst of love. Diving on such a night is a lifetime experience and this is not overstated at all! Starting your dive, you are immediately aware of the crackling and rustling all around you. read more…
What you always wanted to know about coral reef restoration
Things don’t look good for corals. With only a few truly healthy coral reefs left and forecasts not getting any better, it may be a tight squeeze for many reefs to live to see the next century read more…
Sponges of the Sunshine Coast
The Mooloolaba Coral reefs and the Ex-HMAS Brisbane are covered in colourful sponges, of all shapes and sizes. Divers commonly mistake sponges as plants, but are in fact simple multi-cellular animals that attach themselves to a surface. read more…