Thursday, June 19, 2025

John Liang

John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving bug while in High School in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Open Water Diver certification in the Red Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, and other places including a pool in Las Vegas helping to break the world record for the largest underwater press conference.

Environmental Advocates Exhibit At Blue Wild Expo

While wandering the the exhibitor halls of this weekend's Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Expo, in addition to the myriad freediving, spearfishing and outdoor adventure and travel booths, DeeperBlue.com came...

Australian Freediving Company A Regular At Blue Wild Expo

The Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Expo isn't limited just to local, Florida-area dive exhibitors. Probably the longest trip taken was by Ray Powell, owner of DiveR Australia in Queensland. Powell...

Freediving Apparel Maker Hypoxia Outfitters A New Exhibitor At Blue Wild Expo

With each passing year, the Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Expo seems to grow, not just in attendees but in exhibitors as well. One of the new exhibitors at this year's...

New Illuminated Lobster Poker Introduced At Blue Wild Expo

Typically, when you go lobstering you use a tickle stick to try to move or pry the lobster out of a hole and then you snare it. A lot...

Scuba Diving Hall Of Fame Announces 2015 Inductees

The International Scuba Diving Hall Of Fame recently announced its 2015 inductees. The hall's newest members are Bill High, Captain Wally Muller, Dimitri Rebikof, Dr. Albert Jones, and Peter Hughes. High...

Poseidon Launches New Rebreather-Specific Website

Poseidon has launched a new website dedicated specifically to rebreathers. Up until now, the company says "there has not been an effective online resource for learning all about rebreathers. This...

Divers Find Korean War-Era Airplane Off San Diego

A pair of divers found a lost Korean War-era fighter plane off the coast of San Diego, California recently. A local Fox television station reported that the aircraft was identified...

New York State Spearfishing Law To Become Effective This Month

A New York state spearfishing bill passed last November will go into effect on February 21st. Outgoing New York State Senator Lee Zeldin said in November: "Fishing is a popular...

RAID International Opens China Office

RAID International announced this week the company has opened an office in China. In charge of the office are Edmund Yiu and Andreas (Andy) Baumgaertner, who are also directors of...

Diviac Developers Conclude Second Financing Round

The developers of the diviac cloud-based digital dive logbook recently closed a second round of financing led by the StartAngels Network, a Swiss angel investor network. A Switzerland-based startup company,...

Casting Agency Seeks L.A.-Area Male Freedivers For Audi Car Commercial

A casting agency is seeking Los Angeles-area male freedivers for an Audi car commercial. Egian Casting is looking for freedivers aged 20 to 40 for a paid, non-union TV commercial...

GoPro Unveils Software Update For HERO4 Black And Silver Cameras

GoPro this week unveiled a whole bunch of new features for the company's HERO4 Black and Silver video cameras. If you own a HERO4 Black or Silver, you can now...

Russian Freediver Launches Crowdsourcing Campaign For Captive Dolphin Movie

Russian freediver Julia Petrik is conducting a crowdsourcing campaign to raise the money needed to fund the completion of a documentary on her country’s captive cetacean industry. Filming of the...

F.I.I. To Host Charity Breath-Hold Competition At The Blue Wild Expo

Freediving Instructors International (F.I.I.) will be hosting a charity breath-hold competition at the Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Expo next month. The competition will take place on Saturday, February 21 at...

The Blue Wild To Conduct Photography Contest

The Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Expo is conducting a photography contest where the top three pictures in three categories will receive gift certificates from Divers Direct. The first category, "Macro...

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