Fit4Diving

21/11/2017

This is tragic..

Kelp forests — luxuriant coastal ecosystems that are home to a wide variety of marine biodiversity — are being wiped out from Tasmania to California, replaced by sea urchin barrens that are nearly devoid of life.

01/11/2017

Scary....

UN warns that drastic action is needed to meet climate targets set in the Paris agreement

10/10/2017

Home sweet home....

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Rocky Reef

08/10/2017

Beautiful!

03/10/2017

Raining fish?

Fish rained from the sky last week in the northeastern Mexican city of Tampico. Fish can be sucked up from the sea in waterspouts and then dropped from the sky.

25/09/2017

Maybe use 1 less plastic bag? Start somewhere.

According to a study from Plymouth University, plastic pollution affects at least 700 marine species, while some estimates suggest that at least 100 million marine mammals are killed each year from…

20/09/2017

Who wouldn't love to see this!

Expected to live as loners, scientists were surprised to find a group of gloomy octopuses living alongside one another

19/09/2017

I have never seen one, but this warms my heart.

Hurricane Irma’s winds drained waterways around Tampa Bay. It happened so fast that leading to impromptu rescue a manatee.

07/09/2017

Good colorful article about local diving...

The waters of Washington hold vibrant sea life to delight the senses of cold-water scuba divers who journey to the United States' Pacific Northwest.

30/08/2017

Today we visited Barents Island, an uninhabited island in the high Arctic, on the east side of Spitsbergen. Its beach looks pristine. But get up close and you’ll find thousands of tiny pieces of plastic: broken domestic items, plastic bags, marine rope, packing cables and countless single-use plasti...

29/08/2017

New news? Real news.

How many ‘100-year’ storms or ‘1,000-year’ floods will it take for us to listen?

17/08/2017

Good news is they were saved, bad news is that the fishing nets caught them in the first place.

With great precision, the brave divers worked their way around the massive net in Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia, slowly loosening the whale sharks free.

12/07/2017

In light of the current political climate in the US, this is so important.

New rules are urgently needed to protect the open seas, scientists warn.

19/06/2017

Fascinating article. Hopefully these currents change before this is a huge unstoppable problem.

Millions of translucent, sea cucumber-shaped pyrosomes have 'invaded' northern waters. Local scientists know little about them and say it's unclear how long the tropical creatures will survive or what impact they might have on the local food chain.

15/06/2017

So small, yet so powerful...,

12/06/2017

Finally, an optimistic article about the environment!

These projects are helping take out the trash.

02/06/2017

Truly pathetic for so many reasons, including the future of our oceans.

President Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement is a major step backward both for the climate and the country, experts say.

23/05/2017

This could be interesting!

Revealed: the best Vietnam dive sites and diving operators.

19/05/2017

How are New York and Antarctica connected?

Some scientists fear that West Antarctica’s immense ice sheet may have entered the early stages of an unstoppable disintegration.

07/05/2017

What do you think the chances are?

The Diving Equipment and Marketing Association is urging all USA-based divers to call on their elected congressional representatives to support a bill that would make it illegal to possess, buy or sell shark fins. U.S. Congressman Ed Royce, a Republican from California, is one of the co-sponsors of…

26/04/2017

Researchers say they believe previous calculations hugely underestimate the amount of plastic on beaches around the world.

15/04/2017

Beautiful nudibranch video....such incredible diversity.
Check out the Lions Mane Nudibranch in this video.

15/04/2017

This is so incredibly beautiful, moving, and truly special. Thanks, Sharon Wada, for sharing your amazing experience through this spectacular video!

250 miles south of Cabo San Lucas lies the remote UNESCO World Heritage Revillagigedo Archipelago, home to far roaming pelagics such as shark, oceanic mantas and bottlenose dolphin. While small pods can be heard and sometimes express curiosity towards divers, this gregarious gal approached our grou...

10/04/2017

Tragic. The worst bleaching I have seen was in the Florida Keys. I can't imagine seeing this.

Coral bleaching has hit two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef within two years, surveys show.

10/04/2017

Fascinating opportunity if you have some extra $...

If you’ve got the cash — $105,129 to be exact — you can become one of only a few people to ever participate in a dive tour of the Titanic­, starting in 2018

04/04/2017

This is such a great picture and must have been an amazing experience!

Great photo of a Grouper & Diver

31/03/2017

Diving for me is the best escape from stress ever!

Scuba diving is a form of meditation that works brilliantly because 'Stress Floats' and can’t follow you down into your happy place.

08/03/2017

Be Bold For Change. International Women's Day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

06/03/2017

.....scary times for the environment.....

We can't put our beaches and coastal communities at risk. Donate now.

02/03/2017

And some people think that this is a good idea?

The Office of Management and Budget has suggested deep cuts to the EPA's spending, according to a document reviewed by The Washington Post.