Liveaboard vs Resort Diving
Divers often debate between a liveaboard or a dive resort, which is better? Well, the answer depends on what you are looking for ! On
Divers often debate between a liveaboard or a dive resort, which is better? Well, the answer depends on what you are looking for ! On
Shooting underwater photos is a delightful way to spend your dives. You get to search for fascinating and beautiful creatures and then share these discoveries
By Marty Snyderman In June, Atlantis Dive Resorts & Liveaboards hosted a group of thirteen seasoned photographers, videographers, authors, and ocean advocates for week-long stays
The Atlantis Dive Resorts in the Philippine communities of Puerto Galera and Dumaguete are well known in the diving community for the astonishing variety of
[vc_row bg_style=”stretch”][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Marty Snyderman Most divers are quick to agree that spotting a seahorse or pipefish can turn an ordinary dive into a memorable one.
Atlantis Resorts hosted a group of the diving industry’s leading underwater photographers, videographers and image-makers this past April at the Atlantis Puerto Galera and Atlantis Dumaguete resorts. Marty Snyderman, Atlantis’ Photography Ambassador, leads this group, called the Atlantis Image Makers. Betty and I are honored to be part of the 2018 Image Makers group that included some of the diving world’s leading underwater photographers and filmmakers.
Paddle-Flaps in Puerto Galera and Dumaguete Text and photographs by Atlantis Photography Ambassador Marty Snyderman Over the course of a diving lifetime it is almost
Diving with the great whites off the coast of South Africa definitely produced adrenalin in levels I have never experienced, but diving around tiny venomous critters puts a cognitive twist on this thrill. “Should I be fearing you, you tiny little thing?” you find yourself asking the first Blue Ring Octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) you meet: 12-20cm in length, it is lethal to men, carrying enough venom to kill 26 adult humans by causing respiratory depression and paralysis. If you didn’t know anything of it, you’d just go about your dive, but knowing it, and seeing how fast these tiny ones move, does create that nice thrilling rush in your body.
Collectively speaking, the world’s approximately 600 species of octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes and nautiluses are known as cephalopods. Types of mollusks, the members of this class are considered to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates, and when you watch them “do their thing”, it is hard to argue against that assessment.
From a distance they are sometimes mistaken for moray eels. But unlike morays, they are not fishes, and they often boldly swim up to divers. And once they are upon us, they often give what feels like a rather intense inspection before they move along.