Top 10 Reasons to Dive the Red Sea
Never been to Egypt and dived the Red Sea?  You are missing out, this trip will keep you coming back for more. The Red Sea has some of the warmest and clearest [...]
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Marine Protected Areas
and why they are Important This is definitely a proven way to help protect our wonderful ocean and marine life for the benefit of people and nature. What is a Marine Protected Area? Like a [...]
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Enjoying the Road Less Travelled
Featuring Women in Diving Nicolene Olckers tells us about her interesting career as a photographer and dive professional with some great advice for people considering a career in diving. How I got started in [...]
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From PFO to Going PADI Pro!
Featuring Women in Diving I was super excited to do my scuba course. After hearing and seeing all the amazing experiences that others had underwater, I couldn't wait to start my journey. The Open [...]
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The Sea Urchin
Sea urchins are echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. The name Echinoderm came from Greek. “Echinos” means ‘’Spiny” and “Derma” means “skin”. Some marine animals that are classified as echinoderms are sea cucumbers, [...]
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Why is our water turning red?
When a red tide enters our waters, you will see a strange natural occurrence. If you’ve never seen this happening, you need to go to the beach after sunset at the next red [...]
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Exploring False Bay’s Aquatic Wonders: A Diverse Diving Destination
Diving in False Bay offers a variety of dives, making it a sought-after destination. Location: False Bay is an Atlantic Ocean body of water between the Cape Peninsula and Hottentots Holland Mountains in southwest [...]
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Blood Parasites of Catsharks off the Western Cape
The neglected diversity: Who would have thought that marine research, and specifically research on elasmobranchs (Elasmobranchii is a subclass of Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fish, including the sharks and the rays, skates, and sawfish), [...]
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8 Handy Tips for Improving your Underwater Photography
We have made a handy list of tips for you to improve your underwater photography skills. 1. Keep Still Try to keep your camera as still as possible in order to prevent camera shake. [...]
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6 Fascinating Sea Animals
Marine animals are probably the most interesting but the least known. So we made a list of some of our favourite sea creatures with interesting facts about them. All of these can [...]
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Octopus Roundup: Top Five Favorites
by Hélène ReynaudSCUBA DIVER LIFE Octopus are one of the ocean’s most intelligent animals, and while it’s hard to pick favorites, here are the five species we most want to see on a [...]
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Being a surfer and sharing the water with sharks
Shark illustration by Caitlin Judge So, I’m sure most of us have seen ‘that shark video’ by now which has gone viral. Drone footage showing an encounter with a respectably sized white shark [...]
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Meet the Indian Ocean’s first pygmy seahorse
which was discovered in KZN Jay Caboz , Business Insider SA The tiny and beautiful Sodwana pygmy seahorse is one of its kind to be found in Africa and for that matter the Indian [...]
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Weird & Wonderful Sea Slugs
Imagine a creature that looks like it was designed by a committee of artists on psychedelics: a sea slug that comes in every color of the rainbow, wearing its lungs on the [...]
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Underwater Photography is For Anyone
Can anyone do it? Underwater photography is growing in popularity, and as time goes by, more and more options are available to people from novice to professional photographers. Yes, anyone can do it. Pretty [...]
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