Travelling to the Antarctic to dive gin-clear polar waters is a dream topping many an adventurous diver’s bucket list. Farhat “Raf” Jah shares his impressions and experiences from a dive expedition to Antarctica, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia.
It felt a bit surreal heading to the airport again for the first time in almost two years. I used to frequently attend various dive shows, events and conferences and go through the airport as a matter of routine. But that was before the pandemic shut everything down some 21 months ago.
Short video sample of a presentation; Immi Wallin talks about her ongoing
What also made this event extra pleasant was the great food, and that the temperature outdoors was very comfortable and balmy. When compared to so many other conferences, which are often held during late fall or winter in colder and darker regions, being able to sit outside and dine in pleasant temperatures and still be able to walk around in shorts and short sleeves was a real bonus.
Announcing a new eBook designed for recreational scuba divers of any experience level. The book was created to share lessons learned over many years and thousands of diving experiences from two renowned experts in the field of SCUBA, Dan Orr and Betty Orr.
The eBook is compilation of 101 stand-alone tips designed to guide readers toward their own safe and enjoyable diving practices and help them make informed decisions.
As much as 84 percent of the rubbish found on Australian beaches in the past ten years is plastic.
Almost half of all the debris originates from land-based sources (littering, dumping on land, etc), and seven percent from dumping activities at sea.
The remaining 42 percent could not be traced to a specific source as they had broken down into smaller fragments, which would eventually become microplastics.
This was the findings of a study led by University of New South Wales (UNSW) Science, and published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
Gobies camouflage faster and better when they are alone, compared when they are with another goby.
Why is this so?
According to the findings published in the Royal Society Open Science journal, lone fish tend to be more vulnerable.
We feel for so many who have had their plans dashed by the effects of this global pandemic. We have been missing our guests for too long. With no international tourists being permitted to enter Indonesia since April last year, we have been forced to suspend cruises.
Especially now that Bonaire is open for tourism and many guests found their way back to Buddy Dive Resort and Belmar Oceanfront
Fiji is Open! And ready to welcome fully vaccinated guests back to our home safely from the 1st of December 2021.
So get your passports ready, dust out your bags and be one of the first to get to Fiji.
A robustly-made aluminium bottom timer with a bright display.
Covid Heroes was an initiative put in place by Emperor Divers to recognize people who have stepped up during the pandemic by rewarding them with free liveaboard trips in the Maldives and the Red Sea.
Megumi – the second of the eight chosen Heroes to take up her trip - is a music therapist from Berlin who volunteered to work in her hospital’s Covid department and used her skills to help ease the suffering of those afflicted by severe Coronavirus complications.
