A clean up by the Northern Beaches Clean Up Crew at Curl Curl Lagoon. Plus 8 ways to reduce plastic pollution in the first place.
Small ship cruises are becoming more and more popular as a holiday choice, as an easy way to combine a passion for travel and a passion for diving.
Over fishing is a global issue, and it’s all too easy to put it in the ‘too hard’ basket, turn a blind eye, and hope by some miracle we don’t actually run out of fish. Sustainable seafood: how better seafood labelling, informed decisions and personal action can make a difference.
Thinking of a holiday where you can go diving and a lot more besides? Maybe somewhere where you could take your partner and your teenage kids? Even get them all introduced to diving in a place with guaranteed good vis and plenty to see?
Biodiversity#13: Octopus. A cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda, literally meaning ‘eight-foot’. Their bodies have no internal or external hard parts and they have been known to squeeze through very small apertures – mainly in order to escape!
7 steps to get ready for your next underwater adventure, including checking over the scuba gear, and looking for some new places to dive.
I love any opportunity get up close and personal with megafauna: sharks, rays and turtles. So the Shark Dive Xtreme experience on offer at Manly Sea Life Sanctuary, which allows you to get close enough for eye contact, certainly appeals.
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Yvonne McKenzie, based on Australia’s own Christmas Island, shares her underwater world with Diveplanit.
How did you get into underwater photography in the first place? – Well, ever since I was a young teenager, I always loved taking photos and never went anywhere without a camera. Even today, I still remember my first “camera”: a flat rectangle shape, yellow and black in colour, made of plastic where the flash and 35mm film took up most of the space and left very little room for a “lens”
Q1: Explain how you got into underwater photography in the first place. David Faulks: “My interest started from watching others in the water capturing fantastic images and spending many hours talking about what they had seen and photographed during a photo shoot out on board the Ocean Trek at Jervis Bay during the 2012 October […]
