Dive Destination New Zealand: Northland – A Diver’s Dream
By Lee Czerniak, images supplied by Dive Zone Bay of Islands. Northland’s natural environment is something special. With over 3000km of coastline this is a …
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Spearheading the Solomons
By Clarke Gayford. What an otherworldly experience it must have been for Solomon Islanders at the outbreak of the Second World War. To go from eking out a …
Hot Tips: Buoyancy Control
By Tine Funderud & Stone Meharry. You will always hear that buoyancy is the key to being a good diver or underwater photographer. Getting your buoyancy …
Channel Island, Hauraki Gulf
By Clarke Gayford. Probably the most obviously named island in all the Hauraki Gulf, Channel Island is exactly that: a sugarloaf of rock broken either side by …
Bula – Welcome to Fiji
By Dive New Zealand/Dive Pacific. Winston arrived on the 20 February and inflicted extensive damage on many islands and destroyed villages and their …
“Behold the Coconut!”
The first European to sight Niue, in 1774, was Captain Cook who named it ‘Savage Island’. And like many people that Cook named, they were stuck with this …
Solomon Islands – a Hidden Paradise
By Lee Czerniak, photographs by Peter Pinnock. These islands were named by a Spanish explorer, Alvaro de Mendaña de Neira, who, on finding alluvial gold on …
Diversity of Diving in Thailand
By Alex Tyrrell. The small island of Koh Tao, located in the Gulf of Thailand has been the place to go for scuba training in Asia for many years. With some of …
At Home on the House Reef – Wakatobi
By Steve Miller, photographs by Steve Millar unless otherwise credited. Steve Miller shares his love of the underwater treasures that lie within a stone’s …
Alfred Numba Wan: Legend
Marine history provides us with many heroes and the story of the SS President Coolidge is no different. The ship’s captain, Captain Nelson, a figure of some …