Great Whites may be loners but the ocean's most feared predators also hang out together between Mexico and Hawaii at a deep sea watering hole known as the "White Shark Cafe", a study released on We...

What were they thinking? The massive Great Keppel Island Resort Pty Ltd proposal included a 300-room hotel and day spa, 1700 resort villas, 300 resort apartments, a 560 berth marina and yacht club,...

The long awaited scuttling of the HMAS Canberra is very close. After a number of postponed dates due to bad weather, the forecast looks good for her to go down on Sunday the 8th of November at 9:00...

We love publishing good news for the ocean and this certainly is one, especially if you have been to Palau's Blue Corner, congratulations on making the first step:The President of the tiny ...

They called the shark Julian ...When rescuers found Julian the grey nurse shark off Byron Bay, he was 25kg underweight and dragging his bottom jaw along the sea floor.The 2.5m preda...

underwater australasia is very excited to announce our 1st annual Video Competition that gives underwater australasia members the opportunity to win some fantastic prizes and have their videos judg...

It comes to no surprise to us to hear today that Asian Diver has acquired the Asian Dive Expo (ADEX) and will take over from TMX Productions in 2010. And since Asian Diver was only just taken over ...

underwater australasia is very excited to announce the BIG WINNERS of our 5th annual Photo Competition. In a tough year of competition we have seen some amazing entries from all over the world. 100...

Now I am not sure if it is a good thing ... but there was a new Guiness World Record set when 2486 divers participated in a mass simultaneous dive off the coast of North Sulawesi in Indonesia. ...

We had to post this - it seems quite unbelievable but read but check out this youtube clip.Does the S in iPhone 3GS Stand for Submersible? Does it mean we all need to buy one ?...

Good news for the ocean and for sustainable fishing.The EU requires all fishery imports from Indonesia to be certificated from January 2010 as part of its sustainable fisheries policy, to c...

Today marks a major turning point for the conservation of the Great Barrier Reef, with the Queensland Government introducing legislation to prevent dangerous run-off of farm pollution, the conserva...

Conservationists fear a falling shark population is prompting Asian chefs to look for manta and devil rays to help meet the voracious demand for shark fin soup.Found in coastal waters throu...

Scientists scouring the ocean floor to study the nature of tsunamis have discovered a massive underwater volcano off Indonesia's western coast.The 4,600-metre high mountain spans 50km at it...

WWF today welcomed the Australian Government's move to protect the Coral Sea by creating a conservation zone of nearly 1,000,000 square kilometres."The Coral Sea is one of the world's healt...

MANADO, Indonesia, May 14 (Reuters) - Indonesia has opened Southeast Asia's largest marine park in the Savu Sea, a migration route for almost half the world's whale species and home to vast tracts ...

Populations of the world's largest fish, the whale shark, are increasing at Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef, scientists report.Researchers made the discovery using an online photo-identif...

Will it be Josh Jensen who in 2008 came first in the Byron Underwater Festival Video Shoot-out Competition and this year made 2nd place? Good luck to the 3 finalists.Check this link for thi...

Asian Diver is now part of the group of magazines under Asian Geographic Magazines Pte Ltd that includes the other dive publication, Scuba Diver AustralAsia. I do not see this as a conflic...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish on earth. Thus it was a pleasant surprise for the folk of Sorsogon to find and rescue what is arguably the smallest living whale shark in recorde...