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Here's a video produced by my friend, Skyler from our trip to Vavau, Tonga in Sept - check out our most humbling and amazing encounters swimming with these beautiful humpback whales ... the experience we had was just beyond words ... Swimming with Whales : Price of Existence : AnimalBytesTV -...

Hi, I'm planning a trip to dive the French Polynesia next January and planned to spend about 2 weeks diving Fakarava/Rangiroa. Note: this is an add-on prior to me joining bigfishexpedition trip to dive Nuku Hiva in search of the melon-headed whales. :) I have heard some great reviews on the...

The invasion continues .. how desperate are these guys??Great White Lies - OCEARCH Web of Lies

Hi, I just came back from a cage-less great white shark expedition and had a blast swimming with these beautiful and magnificent animals. I was honored to have a chance to meet some really amazing shark enthusiasts and learned alot from them. One thing that I never knew was that the improper...

Another surface interval, after 2 awesome weeks in the Philippines. This time round, I went to explore the Visayans seas of Dauin, the famed Apo Island and a lesser known magical and mystical island, Siquijor, known as the navel of magic and sorcery in the Philippines. Sounds spooky but I was...

My friend from South Africa, Mark uploaded some sad images of two beached whale sharks at Pumula Point. Sources confirmed that KZN Sharks board had measured, photographed and then cut off the dorsal fins. Login | Facebook Simply Green eco friendly information to save our environment...

Hi there, I'm thinking of doing a Swimming with Sperm Whale trip next year. I know that the best season to see them is from Dec to Apr during the winter months but I can only make the trip in June/July. What are my chances of seeing them? What is the water temperature? Anyone know if I can...

Hihi, I just got back from two weeks of Fabulicious diving in Ambon & Bali ... too lazy to write trip report and so just sharing some photos taken with my new baby, Nikon D90 with both 60mm & 105mm lens, together with single INON D2000 strobe. C&C welcome ;-)...

Hi, I just got back from a 3 weeks trip diving in Mozambique & South Africa. We had a blast!! This is not another of my very long trip report but raising concern over a practice that needs to be abolished in order to protect the amazing wildelife that we enjoy seeing. During our trip, we...

Hi, I just received a Facebook petition on salvage surveyors are planning to raise the wreck due to oil leaking?? Googled but couldn't find any info on this. Anyone has any info on this. Thanks. Happy bubbles, Jovin-

So, after years talking about the Sardine Run, I've finally booked and confirmed a trip to South Africa this June. I'll be on a 3 weeks trip, 5 days dving in Mozambique, 3 days Safari at Kruger, 3 days diving with the Tiger sharks and 8 days for the Sardine Run. I'd like to pack light for the...

Hi, I planning another dive trip back to Indonesia in Sept and is considering between going back to Ambon or to the more remote Togian islands. Getting to Ambon is no easy task but the latter is even more difficult & costly to get to (takes about 1.5-2 days from Spore). I've read contradicting...

Hi, pls help to ID ... Thanks. 1. Flatworm: Jovin's Cool Photos!! :: Ambon, East Indonesia Jan 2009 :: Flatworm_1 2. Weird looking nudibranch: Jovin's Cool Photos!! :: Ambon, East Indonesia Jan 2009 :: Nudi_21 3. Flabellina (possibly Flabellina rubrolineata??) Jovin's Cool Photos!! ...

Hi, pls help to ID ... need scientific names, if possible. Many thanks .. 1. Funky looking spider crab Jovin's Cool Photos!! :: Ambon, East Indonesia Jan 2009 :: Crab_20 2. Sponge crab?? Jovin's Cool Photos!! :: Ambon, East Indonesia Jan 2009 :: Crab_29 3. Coral crab Jovin's Cool...

Back from Ambon, East Indonesia. Found some shrimps that I simply can't name. 1. Found hiding in Giant clam Jovin's Cool Photos!! :: Ambon, East Indonesia Jan 2009 :: Shrimp_29 2. Taken during night dive on sponge Jovin's Cool Photos!! :: Ambon, East Indonesia Jan 2009 :: Shrimp_27 3...

"Ambon in the Spice Islands offers the best muck diving in Indonesia, surpassing Lembeh Straits". I heard those words from an American tourist at a restaurant in Lovina, North Bali few years ago when I was diving Puri Jati. Ever since, it has long been an ambition to dive the Spice Islands but...

Just saw this disturbing thread (with pictures) posted by Drew on Wetpixel ... Shark finning in Sipadan/Mabul area - Wetpixel :: Underwater Photography Forums I can't beleive that this is happening but the pictures speak for themselves. I agree with him that we as divers should write to the...

Strange as it may sound but the destination of my year-end trip for 2008 was not the first, second or even third choice in my plan. Neither have I heard about it before when Zain (discover_indo@indosat.net.id), my helpful travel agent from Discover Indonesia offered it as one of the few...

Hi, I have read in many reports about the high levels of mercury found in shark fins posing health hazards but am puzzled why isn't shark fins ban in most counties. Can anyone provide how high is high? I'm just wondering that with the recent worldwide ban on China's products containing Melamine...

Dear friends, I have just visited GoPetition and sign the petition to protect the sharks of our oceans. Pls help by signing this petition and hopefully you'll forward it to all your friends to let them know that sharks need protection too! Protect the Sharks Petition Together we can...