Asian Diver — October 2017

Aaron Wong is one of the most published and recognised underwater photographers in Asia, with over a decade of field experience. ...

Yorko Summer is an underwater photographer from Taiwan, with more than 6,000 dives in his 15 years of scuba diving. With his exc ...

Lynn Wu fell in love with the marine world during a trip to Palau in 2006, and since then, underwater photography, particularly ...

Fan Zhang graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and is now a member of the Photographers Association of Hainan Provin ...

23 Yue Hong Jun was born in China and started learning photography in 1984. His works have won various photography contests in C ...

24 I BET YOU WEREN’T EXEPECTING THIS... The Earth’s largest known waterfall is underwater, between Greenland and Iceland. The De ...

25 It takes 1,000 years for water to journey around the Earth on the global current known as the “Conveyor Belt”. 640,000 tonnes ...

IS FARMED SEAFOOD GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?From WWF^ CHEMICAL INPUTS Excessive use of chemicals – such as antibiotics, anti-foul ...

DISEASE AND PARASITES Disease can be present among farmed seafood. Pests and pathogens often carry the diseases and it can sprea ...

28 IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT a garbage- strewn harbour bereft of fish, toxic chemicals leaching from the debris into the water. How m ...

29 Shutterstock Alexander, a boat captain and a skillful boat builder, in a traditional outrigger canoe ...

30 Water forests like these – the meeting place of forest and sea – encapsulate so much of life’s essence. Start with water, add ...

31 Mangroves store 50 times more carbon in their soil per square metre than the same amount of Amazon rainforest Liz Cunningham ...

32 INDONESIA’S CENOTES INDONESIA’S CENOTES Text & images by Imran Ahmad Bin Rayat Ahmad Immerse yourself in the mysterious a ...

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INDONESIA’S CENOTES FOR YEARS, Uluna has been a secret known only to the locals; this is their magical, private swimming pool. C ...

35 Ulana is a trip into the movie Avatar when photographed at night. Everything changes; from the colour of the leaves, the crit ...

36 MUCKING ABOUT ON KOH TAO Known by many as “student central”, this famous destination has some incredible muck diving on offer ...

Holthuis’ anemone shrimp (Ancylomenes holthuisi) ...

38 A hedgehog seahorse, Hippocampus spinosissimus, hides next to the soft corals, Dendronephthya MUCKING ABOUT ON KOH TAO ...