Alert Diver Category : Caractéristiques

Consultez la galerie de photos d'Andy et Allison Salmon qui accompagne leur article sur la plongée en Californie centrale.

“Pura vida!” our dive guide, Sergio, exclaimed with a relaxed smile. Eight dive buddies, Sergio, and I just had an incredible experience: A 35-foot-long whale shark swam a few feet over our heads at one of the better-known dive sites at Cocos Island, Costa Rica. It silently came and went, seemingly carefree, like a giant spotted apparition sliding out of sight into the deep blue.

Great white sharks are capricious fish. They are iconic, impressive, photogenic, and awe-inspiring but also frustrating. That frustration is not all about the animal — part of it is how few places in the world you can go to see them.

Le Royaume de Thaïlande, un vaste pays d’Asie du Sud-Est légèrement plus grand que la Californie, partage des frontières terrestres avec quatre pays et borde un cinquième par la mer.

Avec la pandémie de COVID-19 qui freine les voyages internationaux, les plongeurs peuvent toujours choisir de plonger localement. Andy et Allison Sallmon nous emmènent dans leur voyage sur les sites de plongée de Californie centrale, où nous pouvons découvrir des sujets macro à Morro Bay et une vie marine abondante sur les sites bien protégés de Carmel et de Monterey Bay.

Just before sunrise I make a cup of strong Indonesian tea and feel the familiar rush of anticipation that always builds when I dive where no one else has. From the liveaboard’s top deck I squint at a string of islands— just green dots from here — that stretch offshore from the Fakfak Regency …

Our explorations of Belize’s equally biodiverse jungles and reef systems some 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) south repeatedly reminded me of that endless summer afternoon in Alaska.

Seemingly crafted for photographers, nudibranchs are slow-moving and vibrant and have adapted to curious shapes and sizes.

After reading Tanya Burnett’s feature about La Paz, see more of her amazing images in this photo gallery.

TRITON BAY, INDONESIA, was one of the last places I visited before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Looking back, part of me wishes I would have been there instead of at home when the world turned upside down and international dive travel became almost impossible. An extended sabbatical in the middle of bustling hordes of fish […]