DIVE Magazine Spring 2023 magazine preview

Subject: DIVE Magazine Spring 2023 magazine preview

Spring 2023 magazine preview

Letter from the Editor

If you want to succeed in life; in marine conservation; in travel and tourism; in underwater photography, sometimes you need to think big.

For Dr Andrea Marshall and Dr Simon Pierce of the Marine Megafauna Foundation, that meant thinking 20 years in advance towards real sustainability; for the island of Curaçao it meant investing in infrastructure to bring it to the forefront of Caribbean dive tourism; for Project Seagrass it meant looking at the meadows of Orkney to set an example for the whole of the British Isles.

For a new generation of talented underwater photographers, 'thinking big' means entering our Big Shot underwater photography competition, back with a big bang for 2023, with a big adventure with the world's biggest liveaboard company awaiting the winner.

Our latest magazine will be hitting the newsstands next week - here's a taste of what's in store. Subscribe now so you don't miss out.

Best wishes,

Graeme Gourlay, publisher

'Sustainability' is a buzzword thrown about so casually sometimes that it's almost lost its meaning - but Andrea Marshall and Simon Pierce, co-founders of Marine Megafauna Foundation, know exactly what's involved. Mark 'Crowley' Russell talks to them about some of the challenges they endured while spending the last two decades not just researching their favourite fish, but laying the groundwork for a properly sustainable future of the environments they inhabit.

Despite having some of the most well-populated, thriving reefs in the Caribbean, the island of Curaçao is sometimes - rather strangely - overlooked as a diving destination. Recent years of investment in tourist infrastructure, however, have turned what has always been a very colourful island into one that positively sparkles, captured for DIVE through the lens of expert underwater photographer, Valentina Cucchiara.

The lesser-known Canary Island of El Hierro was once called 'the end of the world' by early sailors. Volcanic eruptions in 2011 and 2012 made it look like it really could be. Timo Dersch shines a light on how El Hierro's underwater landscape is by turns eerie and desolate, and yet brimming with marine life, together with some fantastic shots of life among the lava.

Many are the visitors to Sharm who have heard the name 'Dr Adel'. Few, however, knew that he was a pioneer of Egyptian diving, long before most people knew that Red Sea holidays were even a thing. Ex-Sharmer Mark 'Crowley' Russell talks to the good doctor about his life diving the mainland coast of Egypt in the 1970s, with an extract from his beautiful book Let There Be a Red Sea...

Seagrass is one of the world's most important ecosystems - a habitat and nursery for a plethora of species, an important coastal defence mechanism and a globally important sink for carbon. Lewis Jefferies and Richard Lilley detail why the seagrass meadows around the Scottish islands of Orkney are an example of how every seagrass field should look.

Emma Farrell is one of the world's leading freediving instructors, and has developed breathing programmes not just for freedivers, but Olympic and Paralympic athletes from a range of disciplines. Here, she gives DIVE's readers a tips on how her top techniques can improve a scuba diver's air consumption.

Our incredibly successful Big Shot photography competition is back! We've teamed up once again with Aggressor Adventures, the world's premiere liveaboard operator, for talented photographers to win the scuba diving trip of a lifetime on board one of their vessels. First up it's the Belize Aggressor III, and the subject is Megafauna!

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