“It’s the start of a new year and there’s no better time to plan your next dive trip! There are some great choices in January, from swimming with orcas in the Arctic to whale shark diving in one of the world’s newest liveaboard hotspots. Here are our picks for five great January dive destinations.”
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“December is an ideal month to go diving somewhere exotic and leave winter far behind. There’s unique marine life on offer around the world, plus big pelagic diving and plenty of sunshine. Here are our picks for four great December dive destinations.”
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Featured on Scuba Diver Life:Dive vertigo is an extremely unpleasant sensation. What’s the best way to avoid it or manage it if vertigo strikes when you’re underwater?Find out more about my top tips for managing vertigo in my article for Scuba Diver Life:https://scubadiverlife.com/top-tips-managing-dive-vertigo/
Featured on Scuba Diver Life:Those looking for a romantic dive trip have plenty of luxurious liveaboards and remote white-sand destinations to choose from. If you’re looking to connect — or reconnect — with your partner, what better way that underwater? Here are my top four liveaboards for couples and honeymooners with Liveaboard.com. https://scubadiverlife.com/top-four-liveaboards-couples-honeymooners/
Mangroves may not be as sexy as coral reefs but they’re just as important to the overall health of the ocean. Read on to find out why.http://scubadiverlife.com/mangroves-roots-ocean/
A Costa Rican court has, for the first time, served criminal charges for shark finning and sentenced a Taiwanese business owner to prison. This is a great step forward for shark conservation.http://scubadiverlife.com/first-criminal-charges-shark-finning-costa-rica/
A submerged continent called Zealandia has been discovered just east of Queensland, Australia in the Pacific Ocean.A new continent may be about to join the seven we recognize today. In a recent paper published in the Geological Society of America’s Journal (GSA), scientists have determined that almost entirely submerged Zealandia meets the criteria.http://scubadiverlife.com/zealandia-new-underwater-continent/
The news about plastic in the ocean is unrelentingly bad, and although it’s difficult not to become overwhelmed by the scale of the problem, there are developments afoot to address it.When it comes to single use plastics, the numbers are staggering: 500 million single-use straws are used and discarded each day and 100 billion plastic bags are used annually in the United States alone. Given that plastic beverage bottles take 450 to 1,000 years to decompose (if at all), and plastic bags take approximately 1,000 years, it’s no surprise to hear the largest area of plastic debris in the ocean is estimated to be 3.8 million m2 (10 million km2) in size.Read more of my latest article for Scuba Diver Life here: http://scubadiverlife.com/2016/05/15/13428/
