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By Charlotte
On: 30th August, 2019

Top Five Sustainable Resorts

  • Raja Ampat
  • Maldives
  • Palawan
  • Oman
  • Seychelles

From ghost nets (discarded fishing nets that continue to catch fish and other animals) and plastic pollution to global warming and overfishing, the ocean is (understatement alert) going through a pretty tough time. Thankfully, many of the resorts we work with are championing conservation…

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By Jacqui
On: 19th August, 2019

Fluo Diving

  • Australia
  • Great Barrier Reef
  • Wakatobi
  • Mafia Island

Imagine swimming through a coral reef where every surface emits radiant greens, reds, and blues, turning the ocean into a magical, neon landscape. This is fluorescent diving, or fluo diving. By using specialised lights and filters, fluo diving allows you to witness the underwater world in…

night diving
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By Jacqui
On: 15th August, 2019

The Top 6 Dive Sites In Northern Sulawesi

  • Northern Sulawesi

Fresh off the plane from a research trip in Northern Sulawesi (tough gig), diving expert Lizzie Barry shares the top dive sites that scatter the region. Think: the world's best muck diving, a TV-famous creepy critter and a whole heap of 'bigger stuff' with some incredible topside adventures…

blue-ringed octopus

By Guest Blogger
On: 25th July, 2019

Top Five Dive Sites in Alor

  • Alor
  • Indonesia

Ask a toddler to draw the most bizarre, colourful and wacky underwater creature they can imagine, and you might get something close to the marine residents of Indonesia's Alor. Tourism has only come to Alor very recently, meaning two very significant things: 1) the waters and their…

seahorse lembeh strait
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By Jacqui
On: 1st July, 2019

Top 20 Underwater Photographers

  • Baja California
  • Northern Sulawesi
  • Cayman Islands
  • Bonaire
  • Bohol

Snapshots of time, passports to other worlds and instruments for change, photography is the most powerful tool. We might be biased, but underwater photography truly trumps on the nature scale; it allows us to explore the ocean's greatest (and still largely undiscovered) depths, celebrate its…

shallow coral reef, Raja Ampat

By Guest Blogger
On: 24th June, 2019

Shallow Diving in Raja Ampat – diving with a PFO

  • Raja Ampat
  • Indonesia

Among the uninitiated, a common misconception still lingers around scuba diving: that all the "really good stuff" can only be found in deep water. Here Julia Tyndall shares her experience of diving in Raja Ampat's shallower depths, a necessity for divers with a PFO, dispelling scuba myths…

Turtle
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By Jacqui
On: 23rd May, 2019

World Turtle Day

  • Raja Ampat

From the patter of tiny turtle flippers as they race to the sea; to spotting an adult casually cruising through the blue; or finally seeing the determined digging of a mother laying her eggs, sea turtles are some of the most enchanting and fascinating creatures to inhabit the world's oceans.…

Humpback whales

By Emily
On: 29th April, 2019

Our Planet

  • Papua New Guinea
  • Indonesia
  • Raja Ampat
  • French Polynesia
  • Rangiroa
  • Mexico

Considering how much we loved David Attenborough's iconic documentary series, Blue Planet II (which we enjoyed so much that it might as well have been tailor-made just for us), it's safe to say we were pretty excited about his latest hurrah: Netflix's Our Planet. And it did not disappoint.…

Humpback whale

By Emily
On: 22nd April, 2019

Earth Day

  • Maldives
  • Raja Ampat
  • Seychelles
  • Bahamas
  • Palau

Monday 22nd April marked Earth Day, and while we're not about to hop aboard our 100% biodegradable soap box and start preaching some sort of eco-warrior manifesto (we'll leave that to the London protesters… are they still glued to that bus?!), we are committed to helping our clients travel…

whale shark ningaloo reef
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By Jacqui
On: 22nd March, 2019

Top 6 Places to Dive and Snorkel with Whale Sharks

  • Ningaloo Reef
  • Mafia Island
  • Ecuador & the Galapagos
  • Mexico
  • Indonesia
  • Maldives

As the ocean's largest fish whale sharks are found in tropical seas around the planet, making for some pretty comfortable dive conditions - unusual when diving, or snorkelling, for some of the ocean's bigger beasts. Yet despite being one of the most recognisable marine creatures, these…