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The Ocean Film Festival is touring the country for the first time this March - we hope you can make it to one of the screenings! The inaugural Ocean Film Festival is designed to mesmerise and enthrall, showcasing more than two hours of stunning footage taken above and below the water's surface. The films document...
Our friends over at Project Aware recently teamed up with, dive business owners and dive supporters united as the voice of the dive community in Bangkok, Thailand at the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CITES CoP16). On 1 March, before the meeting opened, we made our message loud and clear...
Watch the documentary Mermaids have been a popular subject of art and literature for centuries. The legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, China, and India.On May 27, 2012, Discovery's Animal Planet aired...
Are we turning sharks into circus animals? Or simply showing a gentler side?Last week, we posted a picture to our wall of lover of the sea, Ocean Ramsay, riding on the fin of a Great White Shark. It seemed to receive mixed responses. From 'good on her', to 'that's just dangerous', and especially 'how disrespectful...
Sea Shepherd have been declared 'pirates' under international maritime law after continued attacks on Japanese whaling vessels. Here, Japanese whaling vessels claim the Sea Shepherd is ramming one of their ships.A US court has declared the conservation group Sea Shepherd to be "pirates" and ordered it to stop its aggressive actions against Japanese whalers.The ruling...
A 36-year-old man was treated by paramedics after a diving mishap in Pt Lonsdale last week. It is believed that the diver 'swam down too fast' while scuba diving, and a short time later was suffering signs of decompression sickness, also known as 'the bends'. Here is some useful information on this common 'injury' suffered...
Marine Biology student, Jenny Oliver, 25, had an encounter that she will never forget!Jenny Oliver was diving in Fiordland, New Zealand, when she was bitten on the head by a shark. Ms Oliver only escaped the clutches of the Seven-Gill Shark after her dive partner repeatedly punched the shark in the nose.As a masters student...
September is Project AWARE’s Debris Month of Action – a month-long rally when scuba divers around the world will make a stand against the ocean’s silent killer – marine debris.We would love your help to spread the word in your community.During September’s Debris Month of Action, we’re calling for scuba divers and ocean advocates everywhere...
Way back when in 1952 the ocean sparked the interest of Mr Ron Josiah Taylor, and thank god it did, because this man would eventually give rise to a new type of ocean, and shark, conservation. After the Great White Shark attack on Rodney Fox in 1963, Ron – originally a champion spearfisho, worked together...
Adreno's Fathers Day Sale starts 18th August - 2nd September. Check online or in store for some great deals!