Japan

A pod of orcas filmed trapped in a tiny break in the ice floe off the coast of Japan have released themselves, according to reports.

As with many things in Japan, this enigmatic country’s rich and exciting diving is a mystery to most people who don’t live there.

The Reef-World Foundation has announced that Japan is to become the 14th country to implement the Green Fins initiative.

Byunggil loves taking photographs of divers underwater - particularly in the cavee and reefs of his base in Okinawa

Underwater photographer Akira Nanjo, from Okinawa, Japan. Fascinated by his home waters of Japan, Akira hopes to show the colourful variety of marine life

A rare megamouth shark has died a day after been sighted and filmed offshore from the Japanese town of Tateyama on the south coast of Honshu