If you think that meeting a great white is bad while scuba diving, then you think twice… specially if you go SCUBA DIVING in Florida… because … well, you never know what kind of Gator you will find.
Hello new marine life! hello PADI Gator Specialty.
This is from TheLivingSea.com. (check it out cool site)
As I cruised [...]
Kiwi anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune is expected to be arrested by the Japanese authorities when he arrives in Tokyo today on the whaling ship Shonan Maru 2.
Bethune has been held on the harpoon ship after a collision which destroyed his own boat last month. You may wonder… mm how did the japanese catch Peter Bethune… [...]

Among divers and conservationists, it’s hardly controversial to speak up against the killing of sharks for shark fin soup. Inspiring people like Rob Stewart and the team associated with his acclaimed documentary are among the most visible. New groups like the Shark Safe Network from Florida and others are also making themselves heard, and the [...]
December 4, 2009 | Posted in
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So we dive and we live expecting one moment like this. But i guess we can’t be all like Marco Queral, for sure one of the best underwater photographers we have seen. Not only he is great, but very, very lucky. So today, trying to bring good vibe scuba news, please take your time and [...]
August 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Sometimes we thing: I have seen everything already. But once again, we find amazing photos, amazing moments, that make us go : OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE THAT? this time this unique moment coments from New Zealand.
The encounter was captured in calm waters just off St. Heliers beach in Auckland, New Zealand, yesterday.
Five [...]
June 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Fiji has earned the nickname as ‘ soft coral capital of the world ‘. However, there is more to dive sites in Fiji than a colourful underwater garden. Dive sites for beginners and dive sites that are more challenging offer a diverse range of sub-ocean marine life that also includes hard corals, colourful coral fish, [...]
May 16, 2009 | Posted in
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The same story as always… too many tourists playing with wild life. so here we go again: Based on the research of a University of Rhode Island professor, tourist activity in the waters off the Grand Cayman Islands is responsible for the disruption of behaviors and an increase in the size of the female population [...]
April 14, 2009 | Posted in
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So it seems like with dogs, Sharks bite and eat (you) depending of your body language based on Mike Rutzen a top diver (and a pretty brave guy) that dives with great white sharks without a cage. How cool is that? While he isn’t the first to do it, he’s taken shark diving to a [...]
April 7, 2009 | Posted in
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Thai marine police on Tuesday found the body of a missing scuba diver floating near the site where a boat sunk in a sudden storm after a diving tour to the Similan Islands, leaving six foreigners and a Thai national missing and believed drowned.
“We found the body of a Western woman but we couldn’t identify [...]

Moko the dolphin was too busy frolicking with her human company to save a stranded whale which died on an East Coast beach on Monday.
The adult male pygmy sperm whale initially stranded on Mahia beach near the golf club.
Moko led a group of stranded whales back out to sea late last year, but Department of [...]
January 13, 2009 | Posted in
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So again, we see that you really can’t “domesticate” nature, as we see in the Dubai Aquarium last week, where sand Tiger sharks have killed at least 40 smaller reef sharks and been aggressive towards divers at The Dubai Mall Aquarium, Khaleej Times has learn. Divers carrying out tasks in the tank, without a cage, [...]
September 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Bottlenose dolphins suffering from food shortages may be killing their sibling species to take out the competition, scientists have warned.
A series of dead porpoises and young bottlenose dolphins washed up the country’s coastline have borne the animal’s teeth marks.
But the appearance of the body of a rare baby Risso’s dolphin on a beach in the [...]
September 7, 2008 | Posted in
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You all know that at ScubaHerald.com we hate when people just use money to buy wild marine life… but hey! We can’t change the world… so this is the news: Dubai Aquarium, one of the largest indoor aquariums in the world, will open to the public on August 28, 2008, alongside the mall opening. Developed [...]
July 8, 2008 | Posted in
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The whale population has already fallen dramatically over the past few centuries because to culling by Japan, Norway and Iceland, and the poisoning of oceans which kills off their food.
But now a French scientist has said the majestic mammals – which can reach 80ft in length and weigh the same as a passenger jet – [...]
June 1, 2008 | Posted in
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Shark-diving expeditions were canceled for a second day on Monday as the industry mourned the deaths of three foreign tourists in a boating accident near Gansbaai on Sunday. The three men were on board the 11-meter Shark Team when a wave described by witnesses as “massive” and “tsunami-like” overturned the catamaran about half a nautical [...]
April 16, 2008 | Posted in
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