What the truck is muck diving?

Muck diving – what is it? Why would you do it? And where do you go to experience it? Read up on this odd sounding type of diving in this article:

Biggest Whale Shark “Swarm” Found

By National Geographic, Tuesday June 14, 2011 You could call it a whale of a “swarm”—the biggest observed gathering of whale sharks was spotted off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula (see map) in 2009, according to a recent study. Snapped from a small plane, the above picture shows a white boat (bottom right) amid [...]

Photo competition

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Ingenio, The University of Auckland Alumni Magazine If a photo can say a thousand words, then how much can two, three or five words show in a photo? This is the question External Relations is hoping keen photographers can answer. The words – campus moments, learning landscape, and holidays [...]

Best Underwater Point & Shoot Cameras for 2010

By Berkley White, Jim Decker We searched and tested hundreds of point & shoot cameras to find the best match between pocket-size portability, price, and the goals of an aspiring underwater photographer. As we did in 2009, the Backscatter team took ten steps back and examined the hundreds of underwater point & shoot camera options [...]

Milestones in underwater photography

Read about the evolution of underwater photography, from the early underwater colour photographs taken in 1926 to photographs of the Titanic on the seabed – on National Geographic.