EnviroDivers

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23/09/2023

No point diving deep - it's all dark and murky and there's nothing to see - right?
Wrong! Check out this vis at 105m!!

(and if that's not enough, there are two more wrecks on the way up on deco!)

Wreck: The Gulf fleet, northern Red Sea.
📷: Dawson 🙌

23/09/2023

Great infographic of whale head shapes and blows by Tony Pyrzakowski.

23/09/2023

Dugongs, sharks and a 'paper nautilus' — The winning images from the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2023 competitionBy Widia JalalPosted Yesterday at 5:39amFri 22 Sep 2023 at 5:39am Jialing Cai's winning photograph of a paper nautilus drifting on a piece of ocean debris.(Supplied: Ocean Photograph...

21/09/2023

Great news!

After a chance discovery in the lab, this team used IVF to make hundreds of coral babies for restoration projects in New South Wales. So far the IVF babies are doing well in the wild.

17/09/2023

Photographer & diver Brian Skerry beside the magnificently massive southern right whale.

There's an estimated 12,000 southern right whales spread throughout the southern hemisphere. They have started to recover from centuries of commercial hunting, unlike their endangered cousins in the Northern hemisphere. Right whales were named by whalers who identified them as the "right" whale to hunt, because they floated when they were killed.

North Atlantic right whales are one of the most endangered large whale species in the world, and the biggest threats they face are large ships and fishing gear, which can cause collisions and severe entanglement-related injuries, and ocean noise pollution.

28/08/2023

Geoscientists created a new method that can reconstruct the drift path and origin of debris in the sea using the shells of barnacles.

25/08/2023

BIG RESPECT SHOWN TO NATURE BY COPACABANA CREW 💙

Shout out to this group of surfers who spotted endangered southern right whale mother and calf in the bay this arvo.

Heeding advice on the sensitive nature of these beautiful creatures they not only keep the legal distance for all vessels of 300m (100m for drones, no hovering or approaching from front), but they stayed out of the water to let them be, enjoying this special experience from shore, helping to provide them safe place to rest on their journey.

This sort of action should be admired 👏

You lovely crew have directly contributed to the security of this pair and potentially a species.

WE THANK YOU 💙

Image credit: Skippy Love, ORRCA Committee Member

Information on legal distances:

https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/native-animals/approaching-marine-mammals-in-nsw

25/08/2023

At 87 years old, Valerie Taylor isn’t finished protecting sharks just yet.

Shark legend Valerie Taylor has spent a lifetime protecting sharks. At 87, she's still saving them.

06/08/2023

Bondi Beach could soon no longer have shark nets as marine life activists call for the immediate removal of all shark nets across NSW coastlines after the latest research found not a single target shark was caught across Sydney last season.