Asian Diver — October 2017

INDONESIA In 1995 divers started exploring Ambon’s mucky slopes. Soon after, this special place shot into the diver’s spotlight ...

60 New Zealand More well known for the Poor Knights Islands, famously listed in Jacques Cousteau’s top 10 dive sites, New Zealan ...

61 recorded and underestimated landing data, the species has undergone significant declines in abundance over many parts of its ...

62 Tasmania, Australia People famously flock to Tasmania to see the weedy seadragons, but there are some far larger and more spi ...

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64 South Australia Thousands of giant cuttlefish gather each winter in the shallow waters of South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gul ...

65 UPPER SPENCER GULF SOUTH AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA recovered from previous years of low breeding and laying of eggs. The cuttlefish ...

66 Anilao, Philippines is one of the best dive destinations for macro lovers. The area blends rich muck habitats with active ree ...

Raja Ampat’s position in the centre of the Coral Triangle means that its reefs are widely regarded as some of the liveliest in t ...

IT WAS A BLAZING hot morning and the water was as clear as glass. Cameras in hand, we descended slowly towards the coral reef be ...

69 BOTTOM RIGHT Cuttlefish are able to transform their colours and shapes to hide amongst the rest of life on the reef TOP RIGHT ...

70 Other predators come equipped with a kind of in-built camouflage toolkit, and can re-distribute, intensify or dilute pigments ...

71 While some need to seek backgrounds that their bodies can camouflage with, other predators come biologically equipped with a ...

72 HISTORY 72 THE FRENCH CONNECTION An interview with Nicolas Bigourdan reveals the history of the French maritime influence in ...

7373 SG: What was your first archaeological experience? NB: I did some voluntary work when I was 22. It was an archaeological di ...

7474 SG: What an exciting treasure hunt your life must be! NB: I don’t like this expression “treasure hunt”. I am not a hunter. ...

7575 ABOVE L’Indomptable, Freycinet’s first military boat SG: What do you mean? NB: In our family home in Brittany, there is a m ...

76 GONE TEK THE MANY FACETS OF TEK Technical diving is certainly not for the faint of heart – the training is intense, and the p ...

77 THIS PHOTO WAS captured in Hawaii during the making of the IMAX feature film, Deep Sea 3D. It shows Bob Cranston and Howard H ...

INTO THE CAVE By Jason Isley, Scubazoo ALTHOUGH TURTLE TOMB may not be one of the deepest or most complicated cave dives, it is ...