Scuba Diver/Asian Diver

Working with the world's best underwater photographers and journalists, premier dive magazine Scuba Diver sets the standard by which all other dive magazines are judged. For the modern diver who wants to discover everything they need to know about exploring our fascinating oceans, both in Asia and around the world. Travel destinations, where to find spectacular marine-life, what equipment you need, dive techniques plus news on discoveries and environmental issues - Scuba Diver has it all.

Scuba Diver Australasia and Ocean Planet are alternating titles with 4 issues each per year. While SD Australasia stays true to its roots with editorial coverage exclusively from the Asia Pacific region, Ocean Planet shines a light on top diving destinations from around the world.

THE WAYS OF THE WILD • Making Sense of Animal Behaviours in the Ocean

HUMPBACK DREAMS • Philippine celebrity and travel show host Marc Nelson recounts his experience with the majestic humpback whales in French Polynesia

A FROGFISH’S NIGHTTIME FEAST • Night diving offers the chance to rediscover a familiar dive site… in an entirely new light! Behaviours change and roles reverse; some creatures retreat into hiding while others emerge to hunt. Different species become active, and as an underwater photographer, it’s these unique encounters and rarely documented behaviours that draw me to the dark, time and time again.

GEORGE’S UNTIMELY DEMISE • Marine biologist Dave Harasti recounts a time he found his favourite seahorse become an octopusʼs snack!

THE CIRCLE OF LIFE • Marine animals go through the same life cycles – including birth, growth, reproduction, death – like all living beings, and play a key role in the ecosystems they thrive in.

Courtship and Mating • An essential process to ensure the survival of the species, all animals have a way of finding their potential mates and signal their readiness when the time is right.

Nursing and Brooding • For some animals, parental duties end when the eggs are laid, while others literally give their lives to ensuring their young have a head start. Most mammals, like whales and dolphins, nurse their young, and train them in the ways of the wild.

Hunting and Feeding • To eat and be eaten: The marine ecosystem is a complicated series of interconnected food chains.

Survival Strategies • To avoid being eaten, and to hunt effectively, marine animals have an amazing variety of strategies to stay alive. Some work together to ward off or evade predators, others use camouflage both to hide or ambush prey, and a few have toxic defences or display their colours as a warning.

Symbiosis • Team work makes the dream work. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Mutually beneficial living arrangements in the ocean are no different from that on land – to increase chances of survival and carve a niche in the whole scheme of things.

Playing • Through play, the young learn skills and strategies essential for survival. In social animals, playing reinforces bonds and solidifies hierarchies within a group.

Curiosities • Just when we think we have understood why an animal does something, we get the odd behaviour that needs some explaining.

Distractions While Diving • Task-loading (doing or managing too many things at once) is a common reason divers become distracted from keeping track of their depth or air. A very good example of such a distraction is when divers become too focused on underwater photography

Six Tips on How to Take the Most Inspiring Underwater Photos • Underwater photography can be a great educational tool. When done responsibly, it can bring much value to the marine conservation world

New Launch • The Red Sea Aggressor V will launch in March 2025 to explore the Egyptian Deep South. The region is pristine,...