SHARK fins (sic) being displayed on the five-foot way at Jalan Old Slipway, in Sandakan town, without stern action by enforcement personnel from the Sandakan Municipal Council.
Concerned members of the public said the “display” reflected total public ignorance that it is illegal to kill sharks which have been classified as a protective species. They said […]

The search for three Russian divers who failed to resurface in the Red Sea has been suspended for the night. The rescue operation will resume at daylight.
The three divers, two men and a woman, failed to return to their boat after attempting a 90-metre deep dive near Elphinstone reef. Worsening weather conditions and strong currents […]

Endangered sea turtles accidentally caught by fishermen off Latin American coasts usually die but innovative hooks that are too big to swallow are increasingly saving the reptiles’ lives. The use of circular-shaped hooks lets fishing crews more easily remove hooks from the mouths of loggerhead, leatherback and other turtles caught […]

With its frozen face half-hidden, mouth half-open and off-centre in a swaying field on green, this is one of those photos where the subject displays depth of expression. Taken by p@ragon in Batangas with a Canon Digital IXUS 850 IS. Shot with a wide-angle lens and cropped very close. 1/125 @ f4.5.

We read a lot about diving. Here are some regularly published online resources we enjoy. They’re all downloadable in PDF files.
If your local scuba diving PDF magazine isn’t up to THIS standard, then you’re better off reading these. They’re NOT full of boring articles, they have GREAT photography and they’re done by people who actually […]

Concerns about the adverse publicity surrounding the ferry tragedy off Pulau Tioman last month, in which seven people died, prompted its assemblyman to make an outlandish suggestion.
“Maybe we should just build a bridge from Tanjung Gemok (in Rompin) all the way to Tioman as part of the East Coast Economic Region’s initiative,” said Md Rusli […]

I sat down with the lengthy document The National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (2006), published by the Department of Fisheries Malaysia in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. It isn’t so much conservation as we know it.
While it admits that it knows very little […]

Someone passed me a link to Air Asia’s FAQ on baggage the other day. On the second page is this question: Is scuba diving equipment allowed as checked baggage?
Answer : Scuba diving equipment is classified as a Dangerous Goods, therefore, its acceptance is conditional. Please contact our Call Centre for more information.
That’s funny […]

Several teams of scientists went from Thailand to Indonesia to the Maldives to study the impact of the 2004 tsunami on the coral. Their reports have been released through the National Museum of Natural History’s Atoll Research Bulletin issue 544 in an edited collection called Tsunamis and Coral Reefs.
The report, called “Disturbance to Coral Reefs […]

A 2 min 16 sec fun-edit video to the tune of “A Little Less Conversation”, recorded by Elvis Presley.