The island nation of Indonesia straddles the equator between the Indian and Pacific Oceans and lies at the heart of the ‘Coral Triangle’ - the epicentre of the world’s marine biodiversity. Nowhere on earth can visitors experience such a range of spectacular diving - from encounters with huge whale sharks and oceanic manta rays, to muck dives with beautiful Rhinopias and the exceedingly rare psychedelic frogfish.
16 May 2018
Few divers can forget their first exhilarating encounter with a shark and for many, diving with sharks is the ultimate, awe-inspiring experience. In Asia, destinations such as Vaavu and Rasdhoo Atolls in the Maldives, Malapascua and Tubbataha in the Philippines, Layang Layang and Sipadan in Malaysia, and Triton Bay, Maratua and Komodo in Indonesia ...
16 May 2018
Sunfish are animals of extremes. They are the world’s heaviest bony fish, produce more eggs than any other vertebrate and exhibit the greatest increase in size from hatching as a fry to mature adulthood - up to 60 million times their body weight at birth. Whilst there are several places around the world where sunfish can be seen on a regular basis,...
15 March 2018
On the 3rd of March, 2018, British diver Rich Horner filmed himself swimming through a sea of plastic waste at one of Bali’s iconic dive sites - Manta Point on Nusa Penida. The video has since gone ‘viral’, with over 1 million views and 30,000 shares of the original facebook post, plus between 30 - 40 million views of the video across different med...
22 February 2018
Since the 1970’s scientists have tapped into the power of ‘citizen scientists’ to gather data on an incredible range of subjects and in the age of ubiquitous technologies such as smart phones, apps and the internet, the potential for ‘citizens’ to both participate in and provide accurate and reliable data for use by scientists has never been greate...