Scuba News
SCUBA Travel have a brand new section on the diving of Tanzania, in particular Zanzibar and Mafia Island. "Apparently they have a lot of nice hard and soft coral on this dive, but it was so full of fish that most of the time we couldn't see anything else" Just one of the comments on this excellent Indian Ocean diving spot.
New page on diving in the UK features comprehensive listing of dive boats operating in the wreck diving heaven of Scapa Flow.
SCUBA Travel are pleased to release the list of the best selling diving books in 2011. The The Dive Atlas of the World has finally been knocked off its top spot perch, no surprise as it is now out of print and only available second-hand. The bargain of the list has to be Red Sea Sharks which is available from some booksellers new for just 1p.
A new fun introduction to the mathematics and physics needed to really understand scuba diving. This book should appeal to divers interested in a deeper understanding than is available in most dive courses.
It's a strange location to try and boast as a number 1 dive site however if you want a dive location that should guarantee over the course of a week the following, then go to Dibba Rock. Visibility is never brilliant - mostly OK. Mantas, Rays, Black tip and grey reef sharks, Whale sharks, All the usual tropical fish in huge abundance plus massive shouls of barracudas, snappers, trevallies. Loads of turtles, cuttle fish, and more. I dived Fujeurah for years - never really appreciating it until I clocked up hundreds of dives around the world. Fujeirah itself has little to offer - but hey your only there for the diving...More on Dibba Rock and other dive sites of the United Arab Emirates are now on the SCUBA Travel site.
More reviews of dives sites in Baja California, including the excellent Guadalupe and Revillagigedo Islands. "100 ft viz, huge great white sharks: a life changing experience." Just one of the comments now on the SCUBA Travel site.
A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment. New study shows that nine percent of the fish contained plastic waste in their stomachs. That study estimated that fish in the intermediate ocean depths of the North Pacific Ocean ingest plastic at a rate of roughly 12,000 to 24,000 tons per year.
More on diving the Great Barrier Reef, and, on the other side of the country, Ningaloo Reef.
Blu Infinito is now in the SCUBA Travel directory - scuba diving, snorkelling and PADI courses in in the Marine Protected Area of Tavolara and Capo Coda Cavallo.
Hand-picked diving books: guides to diving around the world, stories of the history and pioneers of diving, books featuring great underwater photography and some just stories about diving.