As it is the season for whale sharks and manta rays, the following article is reproduced to help you understand why we are out diving whilst you are reading this! The Sea Bees Team ____________________________________________________________________________ I am underwater, staring back at an eye as big as a golf ball. Dark and limpid and knowing, the [...]
An explosion in the population of the predatory lionfish in Caribbean waters, where it has no natural predators, is posing a widespread threat to marine wildlife. Just off the north shore of Little Cayman, I sink into the blue abyss. No-one knows how the lionfish came to be in the Caribbean waters I am [...]
Enjoy this footage filmed last year in the Similans. The team were on our Marco Polo liveaboard and maximised their time underwater. Stunning footage and it will also give you the opportunity to improve your German! Enjoy… Schaut Euch das Video an, welches letztes Jahr an den Similans gedreht wurde. Unser Team von der Marco [...]
I wanted to drop a long over-due email regarding our scuba diving experience in Thailand. It originally wasn’t supposed to be a scuba diving trip. We were going snorkeling at the Similan Islands. We were on the excursion where one of the two motors on the boat stopped working. It was the week of March [...]
The recent announcement that a Canadian investor has sought provincial support for his plan to develop a 900-million-baht aquarium, resort and retail facility in Rawai, Phuket has generated much debate over the ethics of keeping dolphins in captivity. Soon after the announcement that dolphin performances were slated to be among the attractions at the aquarium, [...]
Marine archaeologists are in a race against time to preserve parts of a shipwreck they believe is the most significant found in British waters since the Tudor ship, the Mary Rose. Paul Rose, explorer, diver and presenter of Britain’s Secret Seas, visited the site. “We’ve watched it fall apart in front of our eyes for [...]
Recent shallow-water surveys conducted off Phuket have documented significant regrowth of coral, marine biologists say. Researchers headed by divers from the Marine and Coastal Biology and Ecology Unit of Phuket Marine Biology Center (PMBC) reveal the island’s coral reefs are starting to show signs of recovery from last year’s devastating coral bleaching episode. Initial post-bleaching [...]
Pierre-Yves Cousteau, President of Cousteau Divers and son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was in Phuket this week. Cousteau Divers’ visit was aimed at “raising awareness of the ocean’s fragility among recreational divers, encouraging them to contribute to its study and protection, but also promote marine environment conservation in and around the Andaman Sea.” For these purposes, [...]
This is great marketing for the diving industry, have a look at this brilliant video from our colleagues in Koh Tao. Congratulations to the entire team for a brilliant piece of dive advertising – and the lyrics aren’t half bad either! Master Divers does Queen
A third phase of artificial reefs is to be sunk off Phuket’s west coast from Karon to Nai Harn, extending the concrete cubes all along Phuket’s prime beaches. The plan for 2000 more cubes to be sunk was revealedy by Phuket’s Marine Coast Preservation Office. The cubes will be dropped about three kilometres off Kata and [...]
