Issue # 31: To The Limits
DIVE’s Summer 2023 magazine is out now, and this summer we are heading to the limits – of marine biology, artistic underwater photography, Indonesian diving and shark-filled wrecks. Subscribe from £9.99 so you don’t miss out.
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Indonesia is widely regarded as being home to the best scuba diving in the world, and there are two particular spots that Mark B Hatter considers to be the ‘bullseyes within the bullseye’ of the Indonesian archipelago. Follow his journey with Aggressor Adventures to Raja Ampat and the Lembeh Strait.
Read: Double Bullseye – diving Raja Ampat and Lembeh with Aggressor Adventures
If you want to dive with a lot of wrecks and a lot of sharks, North Carolina is a place you need to visit. Timo Dersch reports from its treacherous Atlantic coastline, where large gangs of sharks appear to enjoy hanging out on the wrecks as much as human divers.
Read: Hanging at the Sand Bar – diving North Carolina’s wrecks
Underwater photography is so much more than just taking photographs. Producing brilliant art requires dedication, experimentation and – as Czech photographer Michal Štros reveals – modification of the equipment. Check out Michal’s guide to his modified vintage lens technique, and the stunning portfolio of pictures he’s created to accompany it.
Read: Over & Under – the unique effects of modified digital lenses underwater
Marine biologist, writer and broadcaster Helen Scales details how nudibranchs – one of the smallest creatures in our oceans – and sperm whales – one of the largest – are both as equally important and as equally threatened, in our exclusive extract from her new book, Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life
Read: Nudibranchs & Whales: an extract from Helen Scales’ Around the Ocean in 80 Fish
DIVE’s Big Shot Megafauna competition definitely came back with a big bang! We received hundreds of photographs of sharks, whales, dolphins, turtles, dugong, manatee, seals and manta rays and spent long hours whittling them down to find the winner. Check out the winning photograph and the highly-commended runners-up as they were meant to be seen, in art-quality print.
Read: Big Shot Megafauna – THE WINNERS!
Also in this issue of DIVE: Profile of master boat and RIB builder, Apex Boats; the importance of voicing your pre-dive concerns; reviews of top ocean reads The Bathysphere Book and Many Things Under a Rock; review of upcoming underwater indie movie The Dive; Marine Curio #31 – the harp sponge; and more!
Read: Speaking Up – voicing your predive worries
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