Spearfishing Safety
The decision to sustainably harvest marine life can spark vigorous discussions among divers. Regardless of your views, there are benefits to understanding the equipment, procedures, and dangers associated with spearfishing.
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The decision to sustainably harvest marine life can spark vigorous discussions among divers. Regardless of your views, there are benefits to understanding the equipment, procedures, and dangers associated with spearfishing.
After getting my dive certification in 1992, I was instantaneously addicted. Being young, obsessed, and convinced of my immortality, I was not the most conservative diver, but I had no issues with decompression sickness (DCS) for my first decade of diving.
I had dived in Makako Bay, Hawai’i, many times over many years without seeing a single knobby sea star. The first time I encountered one, however, it wasn’t just one, but more than a hundred of them together. They were all gone a day later, and I haven’t seen one since.
MantaFest and BlackwaterFest start in less than three months (May 25, 2024: Yap Visitors Bureau, Yap, FSM): In about 90 days Yap will play host to two of the Pacific’s […]
The Sea of Change Foundation is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has nominated and chosen Dan Orr to receive the 2024 Lifetime Explorer Award. Each year the […]
Explorer Ventures Fleet, renowned for its commitment to sustainable liveaboard diving, is delighted to announce a significant milestone in partnership with its Ecuadorian counterparts. The addition of the PADI Eco […]
Great white sharks are capricious fish. They are iconic, impressive, photogenic, and awe-inspiring but also frustrating. That frustration is not all about the animal — part of it is how few places in the world you can go to see them.