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Plastic State of our Ocean

Researchers believe there are more 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean. While about 20% are afloat, in transit or trapped in at the five known plastic gyres, more than four billion plastic microfibers per square kilometre are in the deep sea. Be afraid; be very afraid of these scary numbers. Frightening numbers! We dump eight million tonnes of plastic in the ocean every year.

A recent survey of the Australian coastline documented three-quarters of coastal rubbish is plastic, averaging more than six pieces per metre of coastline. Offshore, densities vary from a few thousand pieces to more than 40,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre.

Sharing with Sharks

"Sharing with Sharks" - National Geographic

In a surprising interaction at sea, colossal whale sharks home in on fishing nets near the island of New Guinea—and fishermen dole out snacks to the pilfering beasts.

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Journey to Atlantis

"Journey to Atlantis" - Ocean Geographic

I have always wondered what the ocean was like 50 years ago, back when world population was just 3 billion - before the exploitation of commercial fisheries, before factory ships, before the birth of ego centric, gizmo centric sport fishers - the ocean surely must have been very different. I imagined walls sharks, rays, tunas swirling among zillions of groupers, snappers and jacks, as far as the eye can see. As I had fallen in love with the ocean only in the late eighties, I was twenty years too late. Going back in time, was a dream…until recently.

Michael AW

Michael AW – selected as one of 40 world’s Most Influential Nature’s Photographer

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Great Migration

"Great Migration" - DIVER Canada

Even the simple sardine is capable of greatness. Collectively, and I’m talking more than a family reunion, these innocuous fi sh offer up an extravaganza

truly oceanic in scale. It’s often called the greatest shoal on earth – a descriptive both clever and correct!More commonly referred to as the ‘sardine run…