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With the Maldives’ 1,192 coral islands and atolls spread over roughly 90,000 square kilometers (almost 56,000 square miles), there’s no shortage of dive sites here. In fact, it’s a very hard feat to dive even a fraction of the dive sites available. Scuba liveaboard trips are the best way to get a taste of the [...]
Featured in the list of New Natural Wonders of the World, the Maldives is a very well-known tropical island destination, the stuff glossy travel magazines and honeymoon dreams are made off. Their abundant white sand islands popping out of crystal azure waters are famous for housing luxury resorts that languish the very essence of idyll [...]
While Scuba divers are generally a pragmatic bunch and have no prevalent superstitions in diving, however the sailors and fisherman that ferry us divers to our dive sites are often a highly superstitious lot. Whether it’s a small island in the Pacific, or a Caribbean island in the west, sailors and fisherman have several superstitious beliefs [...]
It’s not uncommon for non-divers to be amazed and exclaim, “Oh, I could never do that, I’d be too afraid!” , when you mention you scuba diving. The fear of sharks as we’ve seen in previous posts (Read: Overcoming The ‘Jaws’ Factor When You Dive ) is the most prevailent of fears. But for most [...]
Trying to get the most color into your underwater photographs is true challenge that all who have taken an underwater photograph will attest to. Several scuba divers have often wondered whether using a U.W. Filter is the solution to their color problems. Some have actually gone out and bought one and will tell you that [...]
Underwater photography is a fascinating hobby and for terrestrial photographers, the transition to underwater photography is marked with several difficulties and new rules that once understood can result in rewarding photographs. The first step to transitioning into the underwater realm for photography is to go back to the basic concepts and understand how light works [...]
