The Green Fins initiative, established by UN Environment and The Reef-World Foundation, encourages you to follow some tips for responsible underwater photography, minimising impact on the coral and the surrounding marine life.
Our wetnotes section is full of stories from above and below the sea, with many contributions from valuable members of the diving community and beyond. We bring you the latest news on what really matters to you, and to us.
The Coral Triangle is the epicentre of marine biodiversity on the planet. Stretching from the Philippines and Indonesia in the west to the Solomon Islands in the East, this vast region holds some of the most pristine habitat left in the world, yet like everywhere else, this region is also threatened.
Thousands lie dead beneath the Goodwin Sands. Thousands of lost lives from thousands of lost vessels return slowly to a formless nothing. Some twenty-five metres above the remains and remnants of peoples and worlds past, the sea rises and falls with a semblance of reliability; yet its movements stir and shift the unpredictable and deadly forms of this grim, underwater desert.
All divers can relate to those terrifying moments underwater during the first few years of their diving careers, feeling helpless and completely out of control.
This week, we were at TekCamp at Vobster Quay in the UK - a project we helped to launch seven years ago which won the Innovation Award from the Eurotek Diving Conference.
Dr Eugenie Clark was a pioneering marine scientist and a leading authority on sharks, devoting her life to understanding their behaviour and promoting shark conservation.
Find out where we’re going to be exhibiting for the rest of this year and into 2019, we’d love to see you there!
Philip Christoff is a technical and recreational diving instructor through TDI and SSI working out of Manta Dive on Gili Trawangan, Lombok/Bali region in Indonesia. His passion is to bring technical diving to a younger, more diverse audience.
We want you to get the most out of your fourth element wetsuit and correctly donning it can make a big difference to the life of your garment. We’ve put together a quick guide on how to get into your suit without causing damage.
Whether we are diving to the deepest depths, crashing through the waves or relaxing in the sun, we all want swimwear that we can trust to fit, stay in place and feel secure.
Zale Parry is a diving pioneer. She learnt to dive in 1940 using one of the first imported Aqualungs and went on to inspire countless women and men to follow in her wake.
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