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The new “Swim With Gentle Giants” program at the Georgia Aquarium which allows swimmers and divers to enter the tank with the whale sharks is being criticized by some marine experts. The LA Times reported that Jean-Michel Cousteau and George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural [...]

While the images of sun drenched Caribbean seas, colorful coral and an abundance of pelagic sea life may stir fantasies of diving in exotic lands, you may not realize the price such beauty has taken on the environment. Your beachfront resort may have replaced mangroves. Your hot shower in the Serengeti may be using precious [...]

I’m passionate about finding sustainable ways to travel. It is an obsession of mine. As the tides turn to the new “green”, I worry about the kind of weirdoes and scam artists who are going to pop out of the wood work proclaiming with unsubstantiated glee, “We’re green! Really!” Greenwashing by definition is an environmental or [...]

You may already know that Costa Rica has diving for everyone. The Guanacaste and Osa peninsula regions are teeming with undersea life. Adventurous divers can hop aboard a liveaboard to the Coco and Malpelo islands, 260 miles west in the Pacific and find hammerheads, manta rays and sometimes the elusive whale shark. Did you also [...]