As the most predictable occupant of anemones in tropical waters, clownfish make for the perfect case study of anemone symbiosis.
Jessica Macdonald
In February, a pod of nine orcas stranded on the shores of New Zealand’s South Island.
When it comes to choosing where to spend your hard-earned vacation dollars, there’s a long list of questions to be answered before you decide where to go, including the type and intensity of the diving you hope to do.
The signature feature of most dive clubs is their ability to add a new dimension to your diving experience.
Every year an unlikely event takes place in the azure waters off Kradan Island in Thailand’s Trang province: the world’s largest underwater wedding ceremony, a designation officially endowed by Guinness World Records in 2000.
If South Africa is famous for one thing among divers, it’s the sardine run.
The Florida Keys isn’t known as America’s Caribbean for nothing.
PADI has recently revised its Open Water (OW) course, and while the new curriculum’s implementation is an ongoing initiative that…
Praia do Tofo, a tiny beach town on the coast of southern Mozambique’s Inhambane province, is the kind of place…
In June of 2014 the international diving community suffered a great loss when technical diver Peter Timm died after a search…
Recently, while leading a dive off the coast of Kota Kinabalu, Borneo, I had my first encounter with the unethical and destructive practice of dynamite fishing.
Only 15 minutes offshore from the tiny dive town of Umkomaas, South Africa, Aliwal Shoal has a well-earned reputation as one of the best places on the planet to dive with sharks.
As divers, we frequently take our equipment for granted. If we stop to think about it, though, that we’ve found a way to transcend our physical limitations and breathe underwater is truly remarkable.
If you’re looking for remote, out-of-the-ordinary dive destinations, the Azores archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean may fit the bill.
In the case of this famous deep-sea creature, the reality lives up to the myth
Sharks have inhabited the world’s oceans for over 400 million years, and in that time they’ve developed some amazing evolutionary characteristics.
Since Western Australia announced its shark cull at the end of last year, the question of whether humans and sharks can ever really coexist has been thrust into the spotlight.
The world’s oceans are filled with incredible creatures, each of which has unique, amazing characteristics. Their abilities establish some of these creatures as record-breakers; here are a few of the most fascinating.