In the Media

(Dive Travel Business News - January 16, 2013) -- The world’s top female underwater explorer Jill Heinerth is on a mission to reconnect people to their most precious commodity through her latest documentary, We Are Water. Now available on DVD, We Are Water is a passionate documentary exploring our spiritual and physical connection with water, the source of life.  read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - November 7, 2012) -- Soon to celebrate the one year anniversary of its first edition, Scuba Sport Magazine has announced that it will be increasing its circulation in 2013. Catering to recreational scuba diving, the new US magazine has experienced a high demand from dive centers in its network.

Scuba Sport Magazine arrived at the DEMA Show 2011 as a prototype, and its first issue was released the week of Christmas 2011. The magazine has since grown to a print circulation of 15,000 in only 5 issues, making it the fastest growing diving magazine in the industry.  The digital edition, which is posted on the magazine's website a month after the release of the print edition, is receiving over 1500 downloads within the first 30 days of its posting. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - September 21, 2012) -- For the few who have been thought foolish to brave the bone-chilling waters of the Pacific Northwest on a dive vacation, the critically acclaimed book Beneath Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest is a testament to the sagacity of these cold water dive travelers.   Filmed entirely in British Columbia, Canada, Beneath Cold Seas is one of the very few underwater photographic books to focus on a cold water ecosystem that features the most diverse and spectacular marine life of any such ecosystem on the planet.  read more »

(Dive Travel Business News.com - September 11, 2012) -- Former President of Marine Art Center Ltd. in Japan, and an esteemed member of the Scuba Diving Hall of Fame, Akira Tateishi passed away on September 9, 2012 at the age of 82 from cancer.

Mr. Tateishi was Editor/Publisher of several magazines and a leader in the diving community of Japan. For more than four decades, Akira Tateishi has helped focus Japanese and international attention on underwater photography through movies, television, magazines, and newspapers.

Akira Tateishi was born in Chiba, Japan, in 1930.  He began scuba diving in 1956 in search for new subjects for his painting work. To capture what he saw underwater, Tateishi designed and built an underwater camera housing. This allowed him to bring back images of underwater scenes, so he could paint them. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - July 3, 2012) -- MediaMatters.org -- Carbon dioxide emissions are not just warming up our atmosphere, they’re also changing the chemistry of our oceans. This phenomenon is known as ocean acidification, or sometimes as global warming’s “evil twin” or the “osteoporosis of the sea.” Scientists have warned that it poses a serious threat to ocean life. Yet major American news outlets covered the Kardashians over 40 times more often than ocean acidification over the past year and a half. read more »