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.

Feeling Groovy in Little Cayman

I was in Little Cayman this past May, and a lyric hit me on the first dive: “Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last.” I had been invaded by Simon and Garfunkel’s 1966 hit “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy).”

A hawksbill turtle

Penjaga Laut

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.

ikan menyelimuti taman bawah laut yang rimbun dengan spons warna-warni, anemon laut, bintang laut, teripang, siput, dan kepiting

Menyelam bebas Polinesia Prancis

Kronologi kunjungan terakhir saya ke Polinesia Prancis jauh lebih lama daripada waktu tempuh dari Seattle, Washington, ke ibu kota Papeʻete di pulau Tahiti.

Pemandangan dari atas dari 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.

Trapped in Ice

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.

Galeri Foto Tepi Taman Bunga

Jesse Cancelmo memberikan bonus galeri foto dari gambar-gambar dari Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.

Membuat Avatar: Jalan Air

Upon its release in December 2022, Avatar: The Way of Water drew huge attention from the dive community for its remarkable underwater scenes.

Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) pilots the 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.