YV&C International Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine reports:
Swimming into a small entrance tunnel at a depth of 26 meters, you ener one
of the biggest oceanic limestone caves in the South Pacific Ocean. Fifty
meters long, it’s also 20 meters wide and 20 meters high. The cave is
teeming with flashlight fishes, reef sharks and a two meter grouper.
In the gin clear water, you feel as though your gliding under the roof of a
huge cathedral. The caves floor is at 50 metres, below! When Roland Schwara
of Water Sports Ha’apai showed this magnificent cave to US and
Japanese scientists, exploring the whole South Pacific’ for oceanic
caves, they were stunned. “That’s the best” they shouted,
barely spitting their diving regulars out!
It’... (more)
YV&C International Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine reports:
When Jacques Yves Cousteau first visited Sipadan Island off Borneo, in the
seventies, aboard the legendary Calypso, he was so impressed with its marine
life, that he and his team of divers stayed on for six months to record its
spectacular marine creatures.
One of the extraordinary discoveries Cousteau and his divers made was
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Jervis Bay, approximately 250 kilometres south of Sydney, abounds in
sub-tropical marine life, especially in spring and summer, when warm east
coast currents push down Australia’s east coast. A mecca for divers
largely from Sydney and Canberra, Jervis Bay has seen underwater film crews
from France, England and Japan. They come to film it’s unique marine
life – bottom dw... (more)
“Another feature of these isles is their emphatic uninhabitableness. It
is deemed fit for ... the jackel itself; ... but the encantadas refuse to
harbour even the outcasts of the beasts. Man and wolf alike disown them.
Little but reptile life is here found; tortoises, lizards, ... and that
strangest anomaly of outlandish nature, the iguano. No voice, no lo, no howl
is heard; the ch... (more)
“The winch, synchronized with the flensers knife, accelerates, and the bada
~ (the Norwegian word for baleen) with a wrenching tear, parts from the whale
and swings wildly up into the air and outboard over the ship’s side, just
grazing the bulwarks. During the half-second when it is outboard the winchman
lets go his brake, and the lethal mass, which would smash to pulp anyone or
anything... (more)