Gobies camouflage better when alone
Gobies camouflage faster and better when they are alone, compared when they are with another goby.
Why is this so?
According to the findings published in the Royal Society Open Science journal, lone fish tend to be more vulnerable.
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The Arenui is now better than ever!
We feel for so many who have had their plans dashed by the effects of this global pandemic. We have been missing our guests for too long. With no international tourists being permitted to enter Indonesia since April last year, we have been forced to suspend cruises.
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Catch up with Your Buddies on Bonaire at DEMA 2021
Especially now that Bonaire is open for tourism and many guests found their way back to Buddy Dive Resort and Belmar Oceanfront
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Fiji is Open
Fiji is Open! And ready to welcome fully vaccinated guests back to our home safely from the 1st of December 2021.
So get your passports ready, dust out your bags and be one of the first to get to Fiji.
New bottom timer from Heinrichs Weikamp
The Heinrichs Weikamp bottom timer comes with super-sharp IPS-LCD, user-friendly operation and extended battery life (depending on the display brightness setting, which ranges up to 100h)—all housed in a tough aluminium case.
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Emperor Divers latest Covid Hero relishing a return to the Red Sea
Covid Heroes was an initiative put in place by Emperor Divers to recognize people who have stepped up during the pandemic by rewarding them with free liveaboard trips in the Maldives and the Red Sea.
Megumi – the second of the eight chosen Heroes to take up her trip - is a music therapist from Berlin who volunteered to work in her hospital’s Covid department and used her skills to help ease the suffering of those afflicted by severe Coronavirus complications.
Global Reef Expedition Final Report released
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) has released a report of its findings from the Global Reef Expedition—the result of ten years of assessing the state of coral reefs worldwide.
Considered the largest coral reef survey and mapping research mission in history, the findings provides a baseline data on their status and offering key insights on how to save them in a rapidly changing world.
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DEMA Offers Emergency Assistance to DEMA Show Exhibitors and Buyers
The DEMA Board of Directors has activated DEMA’s Disaster Assistance Program and Manufacturers’ Fund to help DEMA Member exhibitors and buyers struggling as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. “We understand that many companies are experiencing difficult times as a result of the pandemic,” indicated Tom Ingram, DEMA President and CEO. “The DEMA Board wants to help as much as possible so these professionals can gain education, learn about products and services and take advantage of Show-only specials that will help them make it through to better days ahead.”
Fewer Weddell seals than previously thought
Led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, the team of citizen scientists used hundreds of high-resolution satellite images of areas of the Antarctica to manually count the seals.
Publishing a paper on their findings in the Science Advances journal, the researchers concluded that there were about 202,000 sub-adult and adult female Weddell seals in Antarctica in November 2011. This number contrasts with previous estimates of female Weddell seals at about 800,000.
Seahorses—slow swimmers, swift hunters
Seahorses appear to be slow passive hunters as they use their tail to cling to coral or seaweed. However, this can be deceiving, as they are swift, efficient hunters.
A recent study by Tel Aviv University, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, documents the speed at they hunt.
Three species of seahorses with varying snout lengths were chosen for the study: Jayakar's seahorses, sea ponies and short-snouted seahorses.
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First ever Human Factors in Diving conference recordings are now available
The event featured world-leading speakers speaking on how applying human factors can improve diving safety, incident reporting and team performance.
The first-ever event of its kind, the conference provided a unique opportunity to share the knowledge and skills to make diving safer, more effective, and more enjoyable, by allowing divers and instructors to take more informed risks and reduce uncertainty.
Scuba.Digital postponed to April 2022
In an e-mail to participants of the upcoming event, the team of organisers write that they "have come across businesses that cannot even afford the very low prices that we are charging and that are choosing instead (rightly) to focus on supporting their staff through this difficult time.
"We also believe that this will pass and that most places will be much more open to diving in 2022, and they will need to focus on marketing their products be that equipment, travel or training."