YAP

Shallow coral heads are on both sides of the M’il Channel opening as we slow down to locate our mooring ball. The incoming tide brings clean, blue water into the lagoon, creating opportunities for encounters with one of Yap’s main attractions just a few feet below the surface.

Manta rays come to be cleaned of parasites by small wrasses.

Se laisser porter à Little Cayman

En mai dernier, à Little Cayman, un refrain m’est apparu dès la première immersion : “Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last.” J’avais été envahi par The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy), le tube de Simon & Garfunkel sorti en 1966.

A hawksbill turtle

Sentinelles pour la mer

The U.S. currently has 14 national marine sanctuaries and two marine national monuments, and each has its own unique story. In preserving these irreplaceable resources, the sanctuaries protect who we are at our base — our soul as a nation. They reaffirm us and connect us to our incredible heritage.

Les poissons recouvrent les jardins sous-marins luxuriants d'éponges colorées, d'anémones de mer, d'étoiles de mer, de concombres de mer, d'escargots et de crabes.

Plongée en apnée Polynésie française

La chronologie de mon dernier séjour en Polynésie française était bien plus longue que le temps de trajet entre Seattle, Washington, et la capitale Papeʻete sur l'île de Tahiti.

A bird’s-eye view from Moorea

Malpelo

Most fans of big animal action are familiar with the legendary Galápagos, Cocos, and Socorro dive destinations. All are remote and remarkable. Far fewer people know of — let alone have dived — another open-ocean oasis in the eastern tropical Pacific region: Isla Malpelo. 

A silky shark swims through a huge school of bigeye jacks.

Pris dans les glaces

Sir John Franklin’s expedition in 1845 to search for the Northwest Passage ended in tragedy when HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with their combined 129 crew members, vanished in the Canadian Arctic, seemingly without a trace. 

Parks Canada underwater archaeologist Marc-André Bernier.

La réalisation d'Avatar : La voie de l'eau

Lors de sa sortie en décembre 2022, Avatar : La voie de l'eau a attiré l'attention de la communauté des plongeurs pour ses remarquables scènes sous-marines.

Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) pilote le skimwing

Grand Cayman Impressions

Dive photojournalists often go to the same places but rarely at the same time. In 2006, however, Alex Mustard participated in an imaging event called Digital Madness, and I was there to cover it for a magazine. That was our only time diving together on Grand Cayman.

Southern stingrays

Borneo

I rarely know as little about a destination before embarking on a liveaboard charter as I knew about Borneo. I had been to Borneo before, but it was after a […]

Dive guide Natalia Athinaiou snorkels above a pristine staghorn coral forest off Kakaban Island.