The Sydney Underwater Gazette

02/11/2025

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No, this isn’t a painting!

This is the exceptional winner of the 2025 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year, a South Australian Museum exhibition.

Fractal Forest, was captured by Ross Gudgeon in Indonesia and shows the inside-out view of a cauliflower soft coral. 🪸

The coral is named for its characteristic appearance that resembles a cauliflower, with its bump-like polyps that give it a soft texture.

Ross managed to capture this perspective using a Nauticam EMWL, which is an underwater version of an insect eye lens.

A mind-boggling perspective that has you questioning reality…🤯

Come and see it in person, alongside some other spectacular images of the world around us 📷

📍 Australian Museum, Sydney
💰 FREE entry
📆 Open until 15 February 2026

Find out more: https://bit.ly/4huFVym

📸: Ross Gudgeon

31/10/2025

Marine critters love to play - zoos provide enriching environments for animals in captivity but little attention is given to our underwater friends. I’d to see sharks playing in an aquarium.

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01/09/2025

𝐕𝐈𝐙 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 - 𝐒𝐲𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 | 𝟔–𝟕 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫⁣
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VIZ is thrilled to be part of this year’s Go Diving Show, hosting its very own booth!⁣
Come and meet 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 - Adam, Nyrie, and Marco - other divers, and share your fresh ideas to help shape the future of the VIZ community.⁣
But that’s just the beginning… At our booth, you’ll also have the chance to meet 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞:⁣
• 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐫. 𝐆𝐢𝐠𝐢 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐔𝐓𝐒 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐛)⁣
• 𝐃𝐫. 𝐍𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧 (𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡)⁣
• 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐲𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 — a monumental nonprofit book documenting 700+ species found in our iconic harbour.⁣
Also in collaboration with the Australasian Diving Safety Foundation.⁣
Let’s dive into connecting with each other, conservation and curiosity —see you there!⁣
𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐒: https://godivingshow.com/anz/speakers/⁣
𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐒: $12 per two attendees and free for under 16 if pre-purchased online, or $15 per person on the door https://godivingshow.com/anz/anz-tickets/⁣

17/01/2025

Tomorrow morning on ABC Sydney, Pete McGee from VIZ - Sydney Diving Visibility Reports will be chatting about facinating and venomous bluebottle. Do you know that bluebottles are actually a colony of more than one organism? And what to do if you get stung?

Tune in to 702 AM Radio at 6.15 AM to hear the Sydney Viz segment on the morning show and find out more...

27/12/2024

Join Rae Johnston and myself (Steve) on ABC Weekends at 6.15am on Saturday as we talk about the warmer summer waters, the species we may see and the very exciting Minah the Manta Ray, a small female Manta that was observed in Sydney before Christmas.

24/12/2024

The Reef Manta that has been seen in Cabbage Tree Bay aquatic reserve last Saturday and Sunday, such an unusual event this south!

01/12/2024

Today has been Simon Marnie's last Weekend Mornings after continuous 25 (twenty-five) years. To surround him with love and gratitude, a crowd of hundreds of supporters showed up at Government House where he was live on air in a glorious, emotional and watery-eyed Summer morning.
He wandered through the crowd with the microphone for a last chat with each one of us he has crossed path with, remembering names and facts with razor precision. I knew I was in trouble the moment he started speaking in Italian coming my way, as I found myself overwhelmed by feelings and uttering nonsense in front of hundreds of eyes and thousands of ears.

I think that in every profession you can find inconceivable excellences that leave you in awe, and Simon today was just a perfect expression of that, delivering an impeccable and humour filled conversation in spite of the streams of tears crossing his cheeks, a view that I will never forget. For one more time he showed who's the Boss to ABC Radio who sacked him 7 days ago.
Arrivederci ragazzo!
Marco Bordieri
In the picture: (incredibly talented Producer whom we saw in action today) Georgia Bateman, my son Luca, Simon Marnie, me and Nyrie Palmer in representation of VIZ.

30/11/2024

Dear Friends, as some of you may have heard, Simon Marnie will no longer be at ABC Radio so today we wished him all the best with a walk through the memory lane. Simon, it has been a total pleasure to be chatting for 223 episodes of our radio segment of The Sydney Underwater Gazette and we look forward to hearing your mellow voice on some other frequency.
We are waiting to know from ABC if we will be invited to continue our volunteering contribution or not, stay tuned. 🙂

Aired on ABC Radio Sydney on 30/11/2024, speaker Marco Bordieri

07/11/2024

Do you know how to spot a rip? Do you know what to do if you're caught in one?
Listen to Nyrie on ABC Radio Sydney (AM 702 at 6.15am) to learn about the science of surf and check out Dr Rip's website.
*Important spoiler*: If caught in a rip, just wait it out. You'll more likely float back to shore than get a free trip to New Zealand.
https://www.scienceofthesurf.com/

01/11/2024

Tomorrow morning Pete McGee will be covering expected conditions in the water this weekend and chatting about diving in Palau on ABC Radio Sydney. Palau is a leader in coral reef and shark protection worldwide. Check out the photos attached and tune into AM 702 at 6.15am