Happy new year guys. I wanted to share something that I came across while surfing in the world of reefing in social media. Those of you that follow my work know that aquaculture and captive-breeding have a special place in my heart, and this stood out to me. The company is called LongLife Coral and [...]
Aquacultured angel fish are becoming more and more common these days. New species are being successfully raised all the time and its hard to keep track of them all. The multibar angel (Paracentropyge multifasciata) is a hard fish to keep. They are beautiful, with white and black bars going down [...]
Philippine fisherman Jocel Cabansay uses a bottle of sand to show how illegal fishing makes use of dynamite to catch fish.SOURCE CHRISTOPH SATOR/GETTY When there’s an underwater explosion, “it feels like the entire ocean collapses on you,” longtime diver and environmentalist Terence Lim [...]
A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists for the non-profit Ocean Cleanup successfully captured and removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the company announced Wednesday. Ocean Cleanup has been working hard to improve its device and attack the plastic waste environmental crisis [...]
In my third post in this short series I have some images from a dive off the coast of Cozumel, a charming little Mexican island of the Yucatan Peninsula, that has some great diving, but is in my opinion in danger of being swamped by the vast number of tourists that arrive on the huge cruise ships, [...]
This is the second in a short series of posts that I hope you’ll enjoy which highlights some of the artificial reefs I’ve visited over the past few years. There are many reasons for the creation of artificial reefs, assuming they were created on purpose of course. We all know that [...]
Most readers of this post are likely to be creating artificial reefs of their own, that’s kind of the point I guess. The thing is though, there are a great number of artificial reefs being created in the wild. Here’s one of my favorites. I was lucky enough to visit the Caribbean a [...]
The international trade in sharks and their close cousins rays has driven many of them to the brink of extinction. New protection under CITES will offer protection for Wedgefishes, Giant Guitarfishes and Mako Sharks. If you’re unfamiliar with CITES, it stands for the Convention on International [...]