The romantic idea of gently strolling barefoot across a pleasantly warm, sandy beach to go diving rarely happens. In reality you can end up scampering over sand that is so hot it is painful, or it is just unpleasantly clammy and cool underfoot.
To lead this new undertaking and to implement the strategic plan in all of Green Diver’s operations, the GDI Board has brought on Maria Lewis.
After the 10-week strategic planning process, GDI’s new aim now focuses its attention on promoting conservation through education, partnerships and activities focused on environmental stewardship. This updated strategic vision evokes a world with clean, healthy and sustainable aquatic environments. The strategic plan comes with goals of education, awareness, environmental change and self-sustainment.
ADEX Asia Dive Expo, the largest and longest diving show is back in China with a fiesta of diving and ocean conservation-related activities and programmes. ADEX garnered recognition in 2018 as the ‘Best Exhibition Organiser 2018’ by the Singapore Tourism Board and is appointed by the United Nations and Asia Pacific Diving communities as the ‘Sustainable Ocean Ambassador’ in 2019. Spearheading as one of the “diving industry’s must-attend event”, ADEX is celebrating its 25th milestone this year.
Michael Menduno details the highlights of the various presentations given during the sixth biannual international Rebreather Meeting, which took place 1-5 May 2019 on Ponza Island in Italy.
The sixth biannual international Rebreather Meeting took place 1-5 May 2019 on Ponza Island in Italy. Peter Symes reports.
Do manufacturers hype junk science to sell exposure protection? The short answer is yes!
DIVING UNEXPLORED WATERS – DIVEMONKEY CHECHNYA EXPEDITION
When you talk about Chechnya, all you can think of is that it is a country left with a heavy past of war and oppression, thanks to the reputation made by the media. But Chechnya is also a country full of culture and beautiful landscapes that few people have visited. Those few places that are of our interest are the two major lakes lying in the Caucasus mountains and a subaquatic cave. Lake Kezanoiam, Lake Galanchozh and the Gums caves.
The name “Sodwana” comes from the Zulu words Siso dwana, which mean “us alone.” History has it that a group of Zulu women were harvesting mussels on a deserted stretch of beach along the northern coast of KwaZulu-Natal when a landing party for the British Royal Navy came ashore and asked them who they were and what they were doing there.
Drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) are threatening endangered marine species and coral reefs in the Indian Ocean. Marine conservationist Lucy Martin worked with the Island Conservation Society (ICS), a non-governmental organization in the Seychelles, on a large survey in 2015 to find out how big an issue FADs actually were.
