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  • Great White Sharks In Australia Magazine
    My great white shark encounter with Rodney Fox in southern Australia was featured in the UK's Australia & New Zealand magazine recently Just remembered this was published a few months ago - a syndication of my Rodney Fox and the Great White Sharks story originally written for Asian Diver magazine. The story appeared in the [...]

  • Palau Scuba Diving Story in EZ Dive Magazine
    My story about diving in Palau's epic seascapes amongst the sharks is now out in the June 2010 issue of EZDive magazine, the bilingual Chinese-English dive magazine A quick sneak peek of my Palau feature for EZ Dive magazine, published this month with photos by Jez Tryner (and one by Tim Rock too). Palau is [...]

  • Pattaya Clownfish Release
    You can never have too many clownfish, and to celebrate World Ocean Day on June 8th a group of Thai divers released one hundred clownfish in Pattaya to help replenish the reefs. As part of World Oceans Day on June 8th, a group of volunteer Thai divers in Pattaya took part in a clownfish release [...]

  • How To Get To Raja Ampat
    Raja Ampat is for the many the ultimate diving destination - but how do you get there? Here's a rundown of the different ways of getting this amazing and remote dive location in Indonesia. To get to Raja Ampat, you need to fly to the Indonesian airport of Sorong. It's located over on the far [...]

  • Scuba Diving In Indonesian Borneo On The Tambora Liveaboard
    Indonesian Borneo is now being explored by liveaboards, making the islands of Derawan, Sangalaki, Kakoban and Maratua accessible in one trip I recently dived in Kalimantan - the Indonesian part of Borneo - with Tambora, a newish liveaboard that is pursuing an ambitious yearly itinerary across Indonesia. (See Tambora's current schedule and prices). The Tambora [...]

  • Thailand’s Underwater Sights
    My story about Thailand's Underwater Sights was published today on the CNNGo website CNN launched a new website called CNNGo.com a few months ago that covers life in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Mumbai and Shanghai. As part of their current Relax Asia series, I wrote an article about how laid back scuba diving can [...]

  • Tonga Humpback Whale Expedition 2010
    If you've ever wanted to see humpback whales up close and personal, a photographic expedition being put together for September 2010 might be one of the best chances you can get. Just a quick headsup that underwater photographer Tim Rock is putting together a very special charter expedition to go and see the humpback whales [...]

  • Canon Powershot S90 Camera and WP-DC35 Underwater Housing
    The Canon Powershot G11 was widely anticipated by underwater photographers - but the Canon Powershot S90 is smaller, lighter and seems to do the same job for a cheaper price. Which one to choose? I recently wrote about the Canon Powershot G11 and its WP-DC34 underwater housing , describing how it was one of the [...]

  • Clown Frogfish Nursery – Dauin, Philippines
    Finding a clown frogfish is hard enough - but to find a baby clown frogfish is a real red letter day for a diver On a recent visit to Apo Island in Dumaguete in the Philippines, I was introduced by my eagle-eyed dive guide Gilbert to the delights of muck diving on Dumaguete's coastline. While [...]

  • Diving Komodo Trip Report November 2009 – MSY Damai
    Komodo National Park offers some of Indonesia's best scuba diving, from the temperate waters of the south to the tropical reefs of the north - in November 2009 I took a 10 day trip on MSY Damai to explore this amazing area for a third time. I've dived Komodo twice before - in December 2006 [...]


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