EZDIVE Diving Magazine ISSUE #101

Whether it’s your first time or your 100th dive, the world below the surface is always an amazing experience. If you’re a fan of battleships, you can’t miss Guam, a year-round dive region that preserves the remains of a WWII shipwreck; And if you’re diving in Florida, how can you go wrong with getting up close and personal with manatees? If you are fascinated by macro beauty, this issue offers you a choice between Mauritius and Lembeh as a reference for your next macro shoot!

Beyond the beauty, Su Huai reminds us to see and be aware of the sadness of the ocean. An encounter with a turtle that excreted plastics led to Su Huai’s hobby of collecting turtle faeces and over the past six years; he has recorded nearly 200 turtle faeces and made some surprising discoveries.

On the way through learning freediving, and as you move to a higher level, you may use a nose clip. Harry Chamas shares his freediving nose clip skills. Kate Jonker also shares her tips for taking fish portraits.

Whether you are a scuba diver or a freediver, we hope this issue of EZDIVE will give you some inspiration to get ready for the diving season.

Executive Editor
Mandy Wu

CONTENT

COVER STORY

I shot this photo in January 2023 in the Lembeh Straits, one of the worlds premium macro dive destinations. The photo was a long time in the planning, I had always wanted to take a shot of this juvenile sweetlips that demonstrated the way they are constantly moving so fast as they parade around the reef. In order to achieve the effect I used manual focus and a snoot to freeze the subject, and then a slower shutter speed of 1/8 second in order to get the trail effect from the movement of the fins. It took me around 4 hours of diving to get this shot and many attempts.

By Byron Conroy

EVENT

Divers Return to Explore 2023 DRT SHOW Taiwan As It Comes to a Perfect Close

By Diving Resort Travel Expo (DRT SHOW)

GEAR

ENVIRONMENT

The Turtles’ Plastic FaecesThe Turtles’ Plastic Faeces

By Su Huai

MARINE LIFE

Snorkelling with the Elusive Juvenile Smooth Hammerheads in the Azores

By Monique Schouten

DESTINATION

Mauritius – Relaxed Diving and Macro Photography in the Indian Ocean

By Richard Aspinall

Dive Guam – Where America’s Day Begins

By Tim Rock

Fantastic Florida

By Timo Dersch

FREEDIVING

How to Start Diving with a Nose Clip

By Harry Chamas

WORKSHOP

How to Capture the Perfect Fish Portrait

By Kate Jonker

SPECIAL

Macro Photography Challenges in Lembeh

By Alex Tyrrell

TRAINING

Making the Right Choices

By Simon Pridmore

DIVING SAFETY

Diving After DCS

By DAN China

PORTFOLIO

Javier Murcia, Spain

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