ScubaBrucie

The Shark Alliance published an excellent 20-page report called Revealing Europe’s impact on shark populations back in August. The link above will download the report as a PDF document. It explains the full situation in detail and it is something we can all use to help spread the message and tell of the disaster that [...]

PADI (it stands for the ‘Professional Association of Diving Instructors’) is a brilliant training organisation. This is why they have grown to train more divers than all other training agencies put together and why divers trained by them have such a low accident rate. They have thrown millions of dollars into creating the best teaching [...]

Spanish fishermen are one of (no, probably THE) biggest suppliers of shark fins to the Asian market. In the process they have just about eradicated the Atlantic Blue Shark. Go to any fish market and you will see small juvenile fish and crustacea of all species for sale. They go into soup. Every Spaniard thinks [...]

Just returned from Puert Galera and can recommend it to anyone who wants to extend their overseas diving boundaries beyond the Red Sea. Twice whilst there we came across a party of Koreans whilst diving. They descend feet first onto the reef finning away and creating a huge cloud of what a few seconds earlier [...]

I have seen them repeatedly, day after day, on every dive, at Richeleau Rock in the Andaman Sea. Twice saw 2 cross over in front of me. Also have seen in the Maldives. You will find them, seasonally, in Mozambique, Seychelles, Nigaloo Reef in Australia and Djibuti. All year round you will find them at [...]

A Boeing 747 does about 100 miles per gallon per passenger, more modern planes like 777s and A330/340s are significantly more economic. So they are a pretty effecient way of getting somewhere. As for their effect on global warming, they are probably slowing it down!! After 9/11 the US Government banned all flights in the [...]

The octopus system used by PADI actually came from Florida cave diving where Sheck Exley had a second DV outlet machined into his first stage. Florida cave diving has moved on and the standard now is the Hogarthian rig developed by Bill Main. This, like the octopus before it, has found its way into a [...]

Then why does Egypt ban dive gloves? Oh and shark fishing? Because a huge amount of their income comes from visiting divers and they don’t want the asset that divers come to see ruined. Obviously some are  perfect divers and never touch the living reef. However in my experience gloved divers do touch the reef, sometimes [...]

It could be argued that the widespread introduction of digital cameras is a scourge and has led to a rapid increase in reef damage. Certainly at least 90% of people I have seen damaging a reef had a camera in their hand. This is often because the camera adds task loading so they just don’t [...]

http://www.english-nature.org.uk/pubs/publication/PDF/ourcoasts21.pdf http://eng.msc.org/ http://www.wwf.org.uk/researcher/issues/livingseas/index.asp#uk http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3110082.stm http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/oceans/supermarkets/fish_list.cfm (probably best) http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1604953,00.html