Category Archives: Scuba Diving Environment
Saving Bimini’s Blue Waters
The islands of Bimini have a rich and eclectic history decorated with rum running, world record big game fishing, Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Bermuda Triangle. These tiny, “ Islands in the Stream,” are also home to … | READ MORE…
Planet Ocean film premiere at the Rio+20 Summit
The premiere of Planet Ocean at the Rio+20 Summit in June 2012 presented outstanding aerial and underwater ocean views from across more than 20 countries to illustrate and educate viewers about the beauty covering the surface of our planet and … | READ MORE…
Hermit Crab Provided Multi-Coloured Lego Home
An unusual home has been created for a hermit crab which resides in the Atlantis Discovery Area at Legoland in Windsor, Berkshire. Harry the hermit crab, as he is known, has had a bespoke house made for him entirely from … | READ MORE…
World record freediver Will Trubridge champions world’s rarest dolphin
World champion Freediver William Trubridge is a New Zealander and feels a special connection with Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins, which live nowhere else. “Hector’s Dolphins are the world’s smallest and most endangered dolphin”, he says. One of its two subspecies, … | READ MORE…
Madagascar Seeks Protection for Marine Resources
As reported in DiscoveryNews,a new study, conducted by the University of California, Berkeley and the Wildlife Conservation Society is using a “diversified portfolio” approach, to identify what ocean habitats need protection and use a variety of strategies to protect them. A “roadmap” for preserving … | READ MORE…
90 Days Later: Will Australia Create World’s Largest Marine Park?
This past November Reuters reported that Australia’s Environment Minister, Tony Burke, said he would be creating a marine park in the Coral Sea to cover almost 1 million square km — an area the size of France and Germany combined – to help protect … | READ MORE…
Rare Shepherd’s beaked whales caught on film
The Australian Antarctic Division team were searching for blue whales off the coast of Portland in Victoria (Australia) last month when they spotted a rare sighting. A pod of Shepherd’s beaked whales, which have reportedly only been seen in the … | READ MORE…
Finnish Scuba Divers Fishing under Ice
Three intrepid scuba divers have posted a video on YouTube of an interesting underwater fishing expedition in a frozen lake, in Saarijärvi lake in Vaala, Finland. Eelis Rankka, Tommi Salminen and Jukka Pelttari are seen with a wheelbarrow, bucket and … | READ MORE…
One World One Ocean Partners with America’s Cup
One World One Ocean (OWOO) is a campaign committed to inspiring people everywhere to protect the ocean. With that one goal in mind the campaign is working with partners to get the word out; partners like the America’s Cup Race and world renowned diver and oceanographer … | READ MORE…
