Top Dive Sites of Gau Island, Fiji

Featured on Sportdiver:Fiji is home to a great variety of dive sites, especially at Gau Island. The Nigali Passage near Gau is a well-known dive site and understandably so, for the sheer volume of pelagic life and fast currents. It is a beautiful and exciting dive with just a 3-hour window for diving, outside of which the current exceeds 4 knots and the visibility is low.Divers drop into the swift current and ride it through the passage, which is around 20 meters (66 feet) long and resembles a sandy road. The steep walls of the passage are covered in hard and soft corals and the water is full of barracuda and reef sharks.Find out more in Top Dive Sites of Gau Island, Fiji

Scuba Diving at Coiba National Park

Featured on Scuba Diver Life:Coiba, a rainforest-draped island off the Panama coast, is home to white-sand beaches and waters teeming with marine life. This island was a prison for some of Panama’s most notorious criminals until 2004. In 2005, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and part of Coiba National Park, which encompasses 38 islands. Scuba diving at Coiba National Park is truly world class.Who wouldn't want to dive there?! https://scubadiverlife.com/scuba-diving-coiba-national-park/

Top 5 Short Liveaboard Trips

Featured on Scuba Diver Life: It can be hard to get away from the office for a long vacation. But never fear: you needn’t miss out just because you don’t have a big block of time. Here are my picks for the top five short liveaboard trips for when you need a quick scuba fix. https://scubadiverlife.com/top-five-short-liveaboard-trips/

This Shark Week, Are You Team Shark or Orca?

Featured on SportDiver:It's a tough choice but will you be supporting the sharks or orcas this Shark Week??https://www.sportdiver.com/shark-week-2018-team-shark-team-orca

Top 5 Places to Scuba Dive with Rays

Featured on Scuba Travel:It might be Shark Week but let's not forget about diving with rays! There are some fantastic places to scuba dive with rays around the world, including night diving with manta rays at Kona, Hawaii. Personally I can't get enough of hanging out with stingrays, as you can see in my picture here from a recent trip to Australia.Find out more in Top 5 Places to Scuba Dive With Rays.

The Role of Shark Diving in Conservation

Featured on DeeperBlue:Whilst some people have concerns that baited shark dives can impact natural shark behaviors, shark diving can be done responsibly with minimal impacts on the sharks. It is also a valuable yet underappreciated conservation tool that contributes to the protection of sharks and the ocean in a variety of ways.Find out more in my article The Role of Shark Diving in Conservation.

World's Top 20 Shark Dives

It's Shark Week! I'm honoured to be kicking off the celebrations on Scuba Diver Life with my article World's Top 20 Shark Dives."Shark Week 2018 is upon us. And to honor our favorite apex predators, Scuba Diver Life is going to publish content all week focused exclusively on sharks, from a shark-tooth identification quiz, to which shark-conservation organizations you should support with your time and money. But since divers are most eager to actually get in the water with sharks, here’s our definitive list of the world’s top 20 shark dives." 

Diving With Pint-Sized Whales

Featured on Scubadivermag:The Great Barrier Reef, Australia is the only place in the world where you can swim with dwarf minke whales and the whale expeditions there have had a 98% success rate of finding minke whales since they began in 1996! The largest pod they have seen consisted of 28 whales and their longest encounter with the whales lasted a whopping 10 hours!https://www.scubadivermag.com/diving-with-pint-sized-whales/

Top Reasons To Try Charter Diving

Featured on LiveAboard:A liveaboard trip is an ideal way to get to know some new scuba buddies and explore world class dive sites together. Sometimes though, you don’t want to be diving with people you don’t know and would prefer to be on a boat with just family or friends. This is where chartering a boat comes in.Top Reasons To Try Charter Diving

5 Great Shark Dives for Novice Divers

Featured on DeeperBlue:July is all about sharks, with Shark Week returning on 22^nd July, Shark Awareness Day, and the popular SharkCon event starting on 14^th July. It’s a great time of year for divers to immerse themselves in the fascinating world of sharks, both at home and in the water. With shark dives suitable for all experience levels, there is something for everyone to enjoy.https://www.deeperblue.com/5-great-shark-dives-for-novice-divers/