Issue # 30: Thinking Big
DIVE’s Spring 2023 magazine is out now, and this spring we are thinking BIG. Big fish, big plans, big stories, Big Shots! Order your copy now or subscribe from just £9.99
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‘Sustainability’ is a buzzword thrown about so casually it’s almost lost its meaning – but Andrea Marshall and Simon Pierce, co-founders of Marine Megafauna Foundation, know exactly what’s involved. Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell explores some of the challenges they endured while spending the last two decades not just researching their favourite fish, but laying the groundwork for a properly sustainable future of the environments they inhabit.
Read: How the Marine Megafauna Foundation makes sustainability sustainable
Despite having some of the most well-populated, thriving reefs in the Caribbean, the island of Curaçao is sometimes – rather strangely – overlooked as a diving destination. Recent years of investment in tourist infrastructure, however, have turned what has always been a very colourful island into one that positively sparkles, captured for DIVE through the lens of expert underwater photographer, Valentina Cucchiara.
Read: Scuba diving Curaçao – a Caribbean gem
The lesser-known Canary Island of El Hierro was once called ‘the end of the world’ by early sailors. Volcanic eruptions in 2011 and 2012 made it look like it really could be. Timo Dersch shines a light on how El Hierro’s underwater landscape is by turns eerie and desolate, and yet brimming with marine life, together with some fantastic shots of life among the lava.
Read: El Hierro – El Fin del Mundo
Many are the visitors to Sharm who have heard the name ‘Dr Adel’. Few, however, knew that he was a pioneer of Egyptian diving, long before most people knew that Red Sea holidays were even a thing. Ex-Sharmer Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell talks to the good doctor about his life diving the mainland coast of Egypt in the 1970s, with an extract from his beautiful book Let There Be a Red Sea…
Read: Dr Adel Taher – Let There Be a Red Sea…
Seagrass is one of the world’s most important ecosystems – a habitat and nursery for a plethora of species, an important coastal defence mechanism and a globally important sink for carbon. Lewis Jefferies and Richard Lilley detail why the seagrass meadows around the Scottish islands of Orkney are an example of how every seagrass field should look.
Read: Blue Grass – the seagrass meadows of Orkney
Emma Farrell is one of the world’s leading freediving instructors, and has developed programmes not just for freedivers, but Olympic and Paralympic athletes from a range of disciplines. Here, she gives DIVE’s readers a chance to learn how her top techniques could improve a scuba diver’s air consumption
Read: Breathe Easy – Emma Farrell’s top tips for underwater breathing
Our incredibly successful Big Shot photography competition is back! We’ve teamed up once again with Aggressor Adventures, the world’s premiere liveaboard operator, for talented photographers to win the scuba diving trip of a lifetime on board one of their vessels. First up it’s the Belize Aggressor III, and the subject is Megafauna!
Read: Big Shot Megafauna – THE WINNERS!
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