By Joanna Smart – Rolex’s Our World Underwater Australasia Scholar 2019/2020
Be amazed at one of the worlds’ most unique underwater research projects, Nemo’s Garden
Featured Articles
The Bunaken Marine Park, South East Asia’s first HOPE SPOT
Established as a National Park in 1991, the Bunaken Marine Park is a flourishing example of how diving communities can bring about change and ensure that their regions continue to thrive.
Eerie Light of Bioluminescence Reveals Secrets of The Deep
Essay by Cheryl Lyn Dybas : photographs by Edie Widder PhD
Facing a New Reality
Essay & Photographs by Michael AW
This far-flung Pacific Ocean outpost of France, otherwise known as French Polynesia, has been the inspiration of dreamers, the avant-garde and the impressionists.
Essay by Cheryl Lyn Dybas
To understand the shore, it is not enough to catalogue its life. Understanding comes only when we can sense the long rhythms of earth and sea that sculptured its land forms and produced the rock and sand of which it is composed; when we can sense with the eye and ear of the mind the surge of life beating always at its shores—blindly, inexorably pressing for a foothold. ---Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea
POLAR BEARS ARE THE ICON OF THE ARCTIC. They are the top predators of the north, associated with endurance and extreme adaptations to harsh weather conditions. Their survival is directly linked to the presence of sea ice.
The Elysium Heart of the Coral Triangle expedition 2018 - By Michael AW (Photo by Renee Capozzola)
THE FIRST MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ART AND SCIENCE baseline survey of its kind in Raja Ampat with 49 expedition members of 15 nationalities.
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Consider this: Although the ocean is vital for human life support, the combination of pressure, temperature and darkness in the deep sea have left it largely unexplored below diver depths. Though much of the ocean floor has been mapped, it is to a gross resolution of five kilometres - meaning we can only see features larger than five kilometres. We have better maps of the moon and of Mars than we do of the floor of our ocean.
Photos and Essay by Isabella Maffei - Special Mention winner Ocean Geographic's Photo Journalist of the Year award
A step back in time between eco-sustainability and culture. Tuna fishing is a piece of food culture still persisting in northern Italy, safeguarded and accepted in one of the most famous marine protected areas in the world: the Portofino Marine Reserve.