International media correspondents from prestigious dive magazine Scuba Diver Australasia are flying out a team from Singapore to cover the 2009 Byron Underwater Festival to be held in Byron Bay fr...
During another summer of media frenzy about shark attacks everywhere it is always good to sit down and put things into perspective. The following article tries to undo ...
Three shark attac...
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Tim Hochgrebe
Added: 17 Jan 2009, 10:47 pm GMT
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t’s official: the biggest and most robust corals on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have slowed their growth by more than 14 per cent since the "tipping point" year of 1990. Evidence is strong that ...
An unlikely ally may have been found in the fight against the effects of climate change. Fish excretions seem to play a key role in maintaining the ocean's delicate pH balance, says a study that al...
A widespread and severe coral bleaching episode is predicted to cause immense damage to some of the world's most important marine environments this summer, WWF warns.
A report from the US G...
Press Release: Alibaba Ends its Trade in Shark Fins
Press release The Shark Group
December 21, 2008
In Honour of The Year of the Shark, Alibaba Ends its Trade in Shark Fins
The Intern...
The crew of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Steve Irwin have found the Japanese whaling fleet, less than a week after leaving Hobart in Tasmania.
The Japanese whalers have been caught ...
This is a pledge from Catherine Cheung is an Education Officer for Noosa Integrated Catchment Association:
Every year, some 800,000 Queenslanders venture out to our beautiful and productive ...
The National Parks Association (NPA) has called for the creation of a new marine park off Eden as part of its campaign for a web of marine protection areas stretching from Tweed Heads to Cape Howe....
A new Google Earth tool has been launched which will enable users to visit the world's protected marine sites "virtually". A new downloadable 'layer' will allow users to view videos, photographs an...
LAKE MACQUARIE might be harbouring one of the rarest marine creatures found in Australian waters a Japanese devil ray.
The ray, which locals originally thought was a manta ray, has been in t...
Australian scientists have completed an ambitious 18-month project to name and describe more than 100 new species of sharks and rays.
Conducted by scientists working under the auspices of C...
Unborn wobbegong sharks are being raised inside an artificial womb as part of a world-first marine conservation experiment in Port Stephens.
Scientists hope the technology can be applied to ...
Finalists have been announced for the 2009 Raja Ampat Entrance Tag Design Contest, hosted at Wetpixel.com.
Last year's winning image, a pygmy seahorse with its tail wrapped around a gorgonia...
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Tim Hochgrebe
Added: 04 Sep 2008, 3:30 pm GMT
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Last reply added: 21 Oct 2008, 1:11 pm
Coming to Australia I had no illusions about how good the diving could be. We have been hearing how good the Barrier Reef is for years now, and it is good, but has anyone heard of The Coral Coast ('Where is that?' - I hear you ask) ...
Travelling to Palau was not as easy as we would have liked as we couldn't get direct flights from Australia. Although this was a pretty long journey, it proved a very worthwhile one as diving Palau is just fantastic.