Underwater Cameras Although records date the first underwater photograph to have been taken in 1856 by William Thompson, who used a pole mounted camera, the world’s first official underwater photographer, Frenchman Louis Boutan, began his work in 1893. Boutan was first interested in biology, graduating in […]
Photo by Stephen Frink Freediving is the fastest-growing segment of the dive industry today. Robert King, vice president of AIDA International (Association Internationale pour le Développement de l’Apnée/International Association for Development of Apnea) estimates an annual growth rate of 20 […]
Brunei is more likely to conjure images of oil fields and grand mosques, but the tiny sultanate is also home to some of Southeast Asia’s most surprising dive sites. Wreck lovers and macro enthusiasts have plenty to occupy them, with […]
SCUBA DIVERS, crews of conventional (non-nuclear) submarines and aquanauts living in underwater habi-tats have several things in common. One of them is reliance on compressed air cylinders for air supply. This has several drawbacks, the most obvious one being time […]
Every year, for no more than three weeks, drift ice gathers in Shiretoko National Park in Hokkaido, Japan, to make ice diving possible. And under them, sea angels can be found. These tiny swimming sea slugs live at a depth […]
Text and images by Kurt Amsler American whalers came to the Azores, a distant 1,564 kilometres off the coast of Portugal, in the early 19th century. Although they did not initially operate in these waters, the islands were used for […]
