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Being in the general vicinity of Saba and having a little free time, I decided to finally make my way to this island, which has lingered in my diving dreams.
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In Irkutsk, the nearest city to Lake Baikal, there are four dive centers and about 200 active divers. Having carefully studied the information about them, I learned that Dive Center Sval is one of the oldest in the city.
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I have been diving in Ponta do Ouro, a small Mozambican coastal village 10km from the South African border, since 2002 and love its laid-back atmosphere, rustic village life, long sandy beaches and warm blue ocean, just waiting to be explored.
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Some people say that open water is an extreme environment, so what would be a good reason to enter it at night? I say that night dives allow divers not only to feel like cosmonauts, but they can also explore a different underwater world.
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There is a reason for the abundant life in the region.
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I had reached a stage in my underwater photography journey in which I wanted to do more than just take photos—I wanted to create works of art!
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Divers visiting the Philippines enjoy a rich variety of underwater landscapes and bountiful marine life, and can choose from a number of resorts that provide excellent service at a reasonable price.
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Dumaguete seems to follow only two seasonal changes: dry and wet. June through September is the Philippines’ monsoon season, and as you might expect, conditions are warm and humid.
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I was told all this by an old friend (and expert diver) because he was keen to entice me (just recently returned from a dive trip in the tropics) to take part in a dubious expedition somewhere far to the north and under the ice.
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“Muck diving” is now a recognised, broad term for (generally) close-up and macro or micro photography, often in terrible visibility, resulting in low light and backscatter problems in photographs; and some disorientation with depth, resulting in f
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Although Air Canada offers non-stop flights from Toronto on Mondays, the flight was nearly full and expensive.
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The park, Mexico’s largest fully-protected marine reserve, safeguards a chain of four volcanic islands in the Pacific and their surrounding marine habitats, some 800km west of Manzanillo and almost 400km south of Cabo San Lucas.
,Read moreAll the four islands that make up the Revillagigedo Archipelago are remote, volcanic in origin and offer some of the most unpredictable, wild diving in the world.
After braving a few days among the masses in these areas, I headed northwest. The hair-raising, four-and-a-half-hour drive up and around two volcanoes showed me one reason why not many people make the trek this far from the airport.
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A study of has revealed that shark dive tourism in Australia contributes at least AUD$25.5 million annually to the country’s economy.
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Known colloquially as “leafies”, they are also known by the common name Glauert's seadragon.
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I had never seen a blue-ringed octopus before, and as I tried to control my excitement and ready my camera, the guide pointed with his reef stick at a lump in the sand.
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