Scientists scouring the ocean floor to study the nature of tsunamis have discovered a massive underwater volcano off Indonesia's western coast.
The 4,600-metre high mountain spans 50km at it...
Conservationists fear a falling shark population is prompting Asian chefs to look for manta and devil rays to help meet the voracious demand for shark fin soup.
Found in coastal waters throu...
WWF today welcomed the Australian Government's move to protect the Coral Sea by creating a conservation zone of nearly 1,000,000 square kilometres.
"The Coral Sea is one of the world's healt...
MANADO, Indonesia, May 14 (Reuters) - Indonesia has opened Southeast Asia's largest marine park in the Savu Sea, a migration route for almost half the world's whale species and home to vast tracts ...
Populations of the world's largest fish, the whale shark, are increasing at Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef, scientists report.
Researchers made the discovery using an online photo-identif...
Will it be Josh Jensen who in 2008 came first in the Byron Underwater Festival Video Shoot-out Competition and this year made 2nd place? Good luck to the 3 finalists.
Check this link for thi...
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Tim Hochgrebe
Added: 07 May 2009, 10:38 am GMT
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Asian Diver is now part of the group of magazines under Asian Geographic Magazines Pte Ltd that includes the other dive publication, Scuba Diver AustralAsia.
“I do not see this as a confl...
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish on earth. Thus it was a pleasant surprise for the folk of Sorsogon to find and rescue what is arguably the smallest living whale shark in recorde...
The Walea pygmy seahorse is one of five species named in a flurry of recent seahorse discoveries from coral reefs in the Red Sea and Indonesia. All five are less than an inch tall (2.5 centimeters)...
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Added: 10 Feb 2009, 12:19 am GMT
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Our thoughts are with Louise and Grant, the owners of one of our favourite liveaboards in the world. The below release is from the GAZETTE, today 5 February:
UNDERSEA Explorer, widely recog...
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Added: 04 Feb 2009, 11:54 pm GMT
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Google has launched what is touted as being one of the most comprehensive 3D maps of the ocean floor in a major upgrade to its free Google Earth program rolled out earlier today.
Using bathy...
The Underwater Channel(UWC) in association with PADI is looking for you!
The Underwater Channel (www.theunderwaterchannel.tv) and PADI (www.PADI.com) are looking to light up diving in Austra...
IT may be huge, but there is nothing menacing about this monster shark.
The 6m whale shark was spotted at the Palm Beach reef on Sunday, the first time in more than 30 years one of the gentl...
Bizarre carnivorous sea squirts, large spider-like creatures and an ancient fossilised coral reef have all been found in a voyage into ultra-deep Australian waters.
The scientific examinatio...
A useful safety device for most divers is the surface marker buoy. In essence it is an easily seen surface float which is connected to the diver by means of a thin, strong line, usually carried on a reel.
We are chubby, could be considered kind of cute – depending on one’s own perception of the word cute – have pectoral fins that can resemble feet, use fake devices to catch our food. Have you got any ideas yet of our identity? ...