FiNS friends “The Fabulous Five” from Thailand (Aey, Tik, Mean, Nu and Noi) have just published a second guidebook, following on the success of their popular debut effort last year. The new Pocket Divesite guidebook focuses on dive destinations in the South Andaman area of Thailand — covering perennial diver favourites like Hin Daeng, Hin Muang and Phi Phi.
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A balanced editorial from the Japan Times about the whaling debate. Read more…
Tuna stocks in the Mediterranean Sea are being depleted for the sake of sushi. Read more…
Ray Gambell, former head of the International Whaling Commission, says the global body is dysfunctional, and laments that politics, not science, is the focus of the upcoming IWC meeting. Read more…
Divers might be contributing to the spread of harmful bacteria from reef to reef, causing harm to the reefs we love. Read more…
Talk about being under pressure. And a lot of it too. Commercial divers get the big bucks, sure, everyone knows that. But with that comes one nightmarishly claustrophobic and dull existence, especially after 36 straight days of being inside a prison of Heliox pressure, alternating between a cramped living chamber and a tight diving bell. Former FiNS Magazine contributor Lin Shin Chuan, who went off to become a serious commercial diver (and probably regrets it now), shares some snapshots of his sentence on an oil rig somewhere in the Gulf of Thailand. Read more…
Recent reports of total devastation to Sipadan’s coral reefs are grossly over-exaggerated. Read more…
There’s been a lot of heated discussion in the past week or so about recent events at Sipadan. FiNS Magazine contributor Tony Wu sifts through the debate and gets to the heart of the matter. Read more…
Is sustainable whaling possible? Are statements like “All whales are endangered” misleading? Read more…
