On September 18th, Egyptian diver Ahmed Gabr embarked on a world-record breaking scuba-diving attempt, meant to take him deeper than anyone had ever dived.
2014 September
Where can a person dive along unspoiled reefs in the morning, canoe up a foreboding river, spend a rainy afternoon playing dominoes with locals and then polish it all off with a night dive next to an old British fort?
Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across at its greatest width.
Though they are beautiful to see underwater and they add a stunning element to your underwater photos, sun balls can be tricky, as you’ll be shooting at the limits of your camera’s capabilities. These tips will help you get the most out of your SLR or mirrorless camera.
With over 40 species of dolphins found worldwide, you could sight a pod anywhere, at any time on a dive trip. But at the spots listed below, dolphin sightings and interactions are even more common, giving divers a higher chance of encountering everyone’s favorite playful ocean critter. Here are the world’s best places to dive with dolphins.
We could put that Beach Boys song “Kokomo” right here, but you already know that the Caribbean is a beautiful place. Here are the best places to dive amongst crystal clear waters.
Divers often describe their experiences underwater as surreal, but there’s one European dive destination that takes surrealism to a whole new level.
Incredible footage of a pod of Orcas taking down a Tiger Shark! Possibly the first time this has ever been captured on camera!
It’s commonly said that we know less about our deepest waters than we know about the surface of Mars. Here’s what we do know about deep water diving.
As you swim through the lake’s waters, the jellyfish part before you and close ranks immediately behind you, a living curtain of golden globes contrasting with the soupy green of the lake itself. It is a psychedelic spectacle that seems otherworldly, and yet this is reality in Palau’s Jellyfish Lake.
It’s experiences like these that will change the world’s opinion of this species, which is why I challenge even those afraid of sharks to take this small step into their realm.
Diving trips can often take us to places that put us at risk for malaria. Here we’ll discuss anti-malarial drugs and their potential side-effects, especially for divers.
A supposedly responsible dolphin tour turns out to be a worst-case scenario for anyone who cares about marine animals.
This is the 44th of our scuba cartoon series by Jerry King. Let us know what you think and submit your own if you have any! Don’t forget to share with your diver friends!
As the most predictable occupant of anemones in tropical waters, clownfish make for the perfect case study of anemone symbiosis.
Come Discover Dominica with us and see what this fabulous Country is all about!
In February, a pod of nine orcas stranded on the shores of New Zealand’s South Island.
You might think that adding an additional tank and having a completely different configuration from the normal single-tank back-mount BCD is going to be complicated and difficult to learn, but it’s really not.