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MALDIVES FILITHEYO SPECIAL WITH DIVE WORLDWIDE

Save £1400 Per Couple on Maldives Scuba Diving Holiday Scuba travel specialist Dive Worldwide is offering fantastic savings on a trip to Filitheyo Island Resort on the unspoilt Maldives island of Faafu following the country’s addition to the UK’s travel corridor list. Divers will enjoy a laid-back atmosphere and the chance of large pelagic encounters The […]

October 30, 2020 /0 Comments/by

THE FISH OF NIGHTMARES

10 Underwater Creatures That Don’t Need to Dress up for Halloween Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Bram ‘Crowley’ Stoker There’s plenty of stuff underwater that – even if they’re perfectly harmless – most people wouldn’t want to meet, especially on a night-dive, when you’ve become separated from your buddy, and the battery in your flashlight is failing fast, […]

October 30, 2020 /0 Comments/by

PADI AND GOPRO LAUNCH UNDERWATER SELFIE DAY

Win $2000 and GoPro Hero9 Black in Conservation Competition PADI and GoPro are launching #UnderwaterSelfieDay to raise awareness of ocean conservation (Photo: PADI/supplied) DIVE Report PADI and GoPro are teaming up to get people around the world to make a statement for ocean conservation with the launch of Underwater Selfie Day on 7 November 2020. […]

October 29, 2020 /0 Comments/by

SECRET LIFE OF BLUE WHALE HITCHHIKERS

New Recordings Show Remoras’ Secret Surfing Life Onboard Blue Whales Still from study video showing a remora hitching a lift on a massive blue whale (Image: New Jersey Institute of Technology) DIVE Report A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology has captured the first-ever continuous recording of remora behaviour while travelling with its host organism. The […]

October 29, 2020 /0 Comments/by

Open Circuit or Rebreather: How Should You Start Tech Diving?

If you’ve been thinking about getting into technical diving, you’ve probably looked at open circuit options like twinsets and sidemount configurations, as well as closed-circuit rebreather (CCR) diving. With so many choices it’s hard to know which way to best begin technical diving. Should you start with open circuit or rebreather? Here we’ll take a […]

October 29, 2020 /0 Comments/by

ANGRY TURTLE WINS COMEDY WILDLIFE PHOTO PRIZE

Terry the Grumpy Turtle Wins 2020 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Terry the green turtle gained worldwide notoriety for being a bit tetchy in the presence of photographers (Photo: Mark Fitzpatrick/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020) DIVE Report Terry the grumpy turtle has won the 2020 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, beating a photobombing giraffe, singing ground squirrel and […]

October 28, 2020 /0 Comments/by

EXPAND MPAS TO BOOST FISH YIELDS

Expanding MPAs by 5% Could Boost Fish Yields by 20%  Sweetlips shoal in the Raja Ampat marine protected area, Indonesia. SergeUWPhoto/Shutterstock Peter JS Jones, UCL and Rick Stafford, Bournemouth University Marine protected areas, or MPAs as they’re more commonly called, are very simple. Areas of the sea are set aside where certain activities – usually […]

October 28, 2020 /0 Comments/by