Is This Thailand’s Best Dive Site?
The Similan and Surin Islands offer some of Thailand’s finest diving and certainly deserve to be on your bucket list. Tucked away nearly 10km east of the Surin Islands is Richelieu Rock. Certainly it’s spectacular, but is it Thailand’s best dive site? The Junk’s own Renske Lauterbach makes her case. This large solitary limestone seamount […]
Silliest diving mistakes
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Bikini Atoll and the Marshall Islands
Bikini Atoll is in the Marshall Islands and is likely on the list of least visited places on earth. It’s certainly one of the least visited places that people have actually heard of. Luckily for you, Master Liveaboards have a dive vessel operating there. This makes it easier for you become part of the exclusive […]
Solomon Islands Diving. What you need to know.
If you’re reading this then you’ve probably been to a number of memorable diving destinations already. You’ve probably also ticked off a few of your bucket list dive spots. But as we all know, the bucket list keeps growing. There will always be that one spot that you need to see that hasn’t hit the […]
Best hairstyles for diving
We know what you think…but no, this is no joke. Choosing the best hairstyles for diving is a very serious subject for anyone who scuba dives! There is NOTHING more annoying than having strands of hairs floating in front of your mask. Especially when it’s right at the time that whale shark shows up. Or […]
May The Fourth Be With You
We are nerds. We probably need to get that out of the way early… divers are nerds. Just think how long you can speak about things like dive computers, decompression, underwater cameras. Close your eyes, take a breath, and embrace the nerdiness. And May the fourth be with you! The ultimate nerd arena is, as […]
Where do hammerheads go when we’re not watching?
A small swim for a hammerhead but a giant leap for marine research. For the first time ever, scientists have found out where hammerheads go. They have documented, in near real-time, details of the migration of a critically endangered pregnant scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini). The shark journeyed from the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador to […]
Silliest diving mistakes and how to avoid them
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What is blackwater Diving?
Blackwater diving is not something that all divers know about. In fact, we had to be walked through it the first time that Unique Dive Expeditions in Palau brought it up as something we might be interested in. Even if you know what it is, you may still be wondering what all the fuss is […]
Saving our Sharks
As we mentioned in our previous post about diving with the Big Five in the Bahamas, more and more countries are now taking positive steps and in the fight towards saving our sharks. Beginning in 2009 countries such as Palau, The Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (Truk Lagoon, for example), and 14 others have […]
