Whale shark tracked travelling furthest distance ever recorded - Freediving in United Arab Emirates. Courses, Certificates and Equipment

A whale shark has made the longest migration journey ever recorded travelling 12,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean. The large fish, named Anne by scientists, was tracked making the mammoth migration from near Panama in the south eastern Pacific, to an area close to the Philippines in the Indo-Pacific. Experts at the Smithsonian Tropical Research …

Whale shark logs longest-recorded trans-Pacific migration - Freediving in United Arab Emirates. Courses, Certificates and Equipment

Whale sharks are filter feeders, eating plankton, fish eggs, krill, crab larvae as well as small squid and fish that enter their large mouths. They cannot digest plastic garbage. Credit: Kevan Mantell Little is known about the world’s largest living fish, gentle giants reaching 12 meters (40 feet) in length. Researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical …

Scientists CT Scan An Entire Whale to Study Its Ears - Freediving in United Arab Emirates. Courses, Certificates and Equipment

How do you get inside a whale’s head? With a CT-scanner made for rocket bodies, that’s how. Researchers from San Diego State University stuck an entire juvenile minke whale inside a computed tomography (CT) scanning machine to virtually slice and dice its anatomy with X-rays. Their goal was to get a look at the structures …

Mystery of sea nomads’ amazing ability to freedive is solved - Freediving in United Arab Emirates. Courses, Certificates and Equipment

Scientists have uncovered the secrets of the Bajau people, long-famed for their ability to hold their breath for extraordinary lengths of time The secret behind the ability of a group of “sea nomads” in Southeast Asia to hold their breath for extraordinary periods of time while freediving to hunt fish has finally been revealed – …

3 Sea turtles returned to the wild - Freediving in United Arab Emirates. Courses, Certificates and Equipment

Clearwater, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Clearwater Marine Aquarium released three sea turtles today at Fred Howard Park. The sea turtles included Echo and Papa, two endangered green sea turtles treated for the Fibropapilloma virus, and Marigold, a critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle treated for boat strike injuries. Echo and Papa, named during the …

These sea turtles use magnetic fields like GPS - Freediving in United Arab Emirates. Courses, Certificates and Equipment

Loggerhead sea turtles that nest on beaches with similar magnetic fields are genetically similar to one another, according to a new study. “Loggerhead sea turtles are fascinating creatures that begin their lives by migrating alone across the Atlantic Ocean and back,” says Kenneth Lohmann, professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel …

Curaçao, A Special Scuba Diving Destination In The Caribbean! - Freediving in United Arab Emirates. Courses, Certificates and Equipment

WILLEMSTAD – Curacao is special to me because I received my Open Water certification there ten years years ago when my local dive shop referred me to The Dive Bus, one of the most popular local operators.  In the intervening years I have widely traveled around the world, and the rest of the Caribbean.  These experiences have …

Don’t Miss Out On Freediving Papua New Guinea’s Kimbe Bay - Freediving in United Arab Emirates. Courses, Certificates and Equipment

If freediving the South Pacific has been on your bucket list for a while, you might want to check out Australian-based Encounter Freediving. Encounter Freediving is offering a trip for freedivers to Kimbe Bay, off the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain. The group will be led by Michael Bates, an Austrialian freediving instructor who holds a …