Diving holiday in Makadi Bay: Recently, negative reports about Egypt have been on the rise. Coral bleaching, low fish stocks and a series of shipping accidents. A good reason to check whether everything is still okay in the land of the pharaohs...
Karibiksport adds the British Virgin Islands to its program. There are moments in life when you feel that something new is about to begin. This is exactly the moment that has arrived for the employees at Karibiksport—and for everyone who loves the sea, celebrates diving, and wants to not only see the Caribbean, but feel it.
International initiatives to defuse decades-old marine munitions are gaining momentum: For decades, a large number of rusted weapons have been lying on the seabed around the world – bombs, grenades, chemical and conventional warfare agents that were dumped in the oceans, mainly during the Second World War.
Underwater smartphone housing from SeaLife: Scubapro introduces the latest underwater smartphone housing from SeaLife. Compact and updated for divers and snorkelers. Easy to use and ergonomically designed. Your creativity is encouraged with advanced camera settings.
ReefExporer online lecture series, Coral Reef Adventure 2025. On 17 July 2025 from 17:00 to 18:00, Prof. Dr. Nico Michiels from the Chair of Evolutionary Ecology of Animals and Evolution at the University of Tübingen will give the lecture ‘Documenting change in over 1000 fish species: A challenge with the joy of discovery’.
Bumbayaya GmbH continues innovation in underwater video and photography. UWACAM was unveiled in January 2025 at boot in Düsseldorf. Since then, the software has earned an excellent reputation in the Apple App Store: it currently has an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Explorer Ventures Fleet® is excited to share that the Humboldt Explorer®, one of two partner vessels operating in the Galápagos Islands, has returned to service following a scheduled dry dock period. As part of routine maintenance, this proactive refresh included targeted upgrades on long-term safety, operational reliability, and enhanced guest comfort.
Post-processing made easy: Anyone who takes photographs underwater is familiar with the problem. Backscatter everywhere. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But it's almost impossible to avoid them completely! This means positioning the lighting correctly and trying to illuminate as few of the ‘nasty’ reflections as possible. This doesn't always work, and many of my pictures have ended up in the bin because there were simply too many of them.
The world faces a fundamental decision on how to protect the oceans: Just a few days before the start of the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice (9-13 June 2025), marine conservation organisations are sounding the alarm: the state of the world's oceans has continued to deteriorate since the last conference in 2022 - despite numerous international promises and action plans to preserve and restore marine ecosystems.
Observations of young Diadem sea urchins give hope: In the last few months there has been a pleasing increase in observations of live young Diadem sea urchins in the Red Sea. Even though their numbers are still significantly lower than in the past - when they could be seen everywhere at dusk - these observations give us hope. Diademed sea urchins fulfil a crucial function in the coral reef ecosystem by acting as ‘lawnmowers’, keeping algae short and thus preventing them from overgrowing and suffocating the corals.