Thomas Peschak: Destination Amazon
Experience the Amazon like never before with Thomas Peschak. Discover the stories behind Destination Amazon and the river’s significance.
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Selective Vision
With our finite time and limited light underwater, every image-capture quest is like a treasure hunt. We all have different ideas of what is treasure: It may be marine mammals, shipwrecks, reef corals, or icebergs. I like to go beyond a single underwater subject and look for something more abstract. Pattern, form, and color rule my world.
Kelp is the New Coral
Coral and kelp are the ivory and ebony of ecosystems: mirrored opposites. Coral thrives in warm, clear, low-nutrient waters, while kelp lives in cold, nutrient-rich waters that tend to be murky because of those nutrients.
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Tools for a Healthy Drysuit
Divers venture into a hostile environment with no breathable air and potentially extreme temperatures. To survive these conditions, dive equipment provides life support and insulates the body, helping regulate its temperature.
Australian Sea Lions
The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) is the only pinniped endemic to Australia.
Bay Islands of Honduras
Explore the Bay Islands of Honduras, home to stunning reefs and vibrant marine life. Discover underwater wonders waiting for you.
The Beat Goes on in Southwest New Providence
When I began working as a dive photojournalist for Skin Diver magazine in the mid-1980s I was like other photojournalists of that era, Rick Frehsee and Michael Lawrence. We all lived near enough to Miami International Airport so we could easily fly to Caribbean destinations to do articles. Our small posse was frequently sent on assignment to “the islands.”
The Quest for Seahorses and Their Kin
When you set out into the sea to look for the divinely weird wonders of nature, you can’t do better than tracking down species in the order Syngnathiformes.
A New Chapter for DAN and the Dive Community
Stepping into the role of president and CEO of Divers Alert Network is both an honor and a responsibility I take seriously. For more than four decades DAN has been a trusted partner to divers around the world, providing medical guidance, emergency assistance, scientific insight, and peace of mind.
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