Raja Ampat. Scrubbing algae off the shells of captive turtles, caged until they grow to eating size, then sold. A common sight water villages. Taking turtles is illegal but overlooked.
Raja Ampat. Scrubbing algae off the shells of captive turtles, caged until they grow to eating size, then sold. A common sight water villages. Taking turtles is illegal but overlooked. ...
Traditional non-motorised banca Field work blog – Post 6 A local fisher heads out at dawn with his traditional banca with simple fishing gear – a gill net and hook and line. Oslob, the Phi...
Field work blog – Post 5 Marine biologist Ma. May Saludsod watches Oslob fishers survey weather and tide conditions before launching their small banca (traditional outrigger canoes), for morning...
Field work blog – Post 4 Bubbles = divers below. Photographic imperfection meets dive tourist Heaven (taken by a failed underwater photographer on field work, who is much better at research. Big...
84% of dive operators in the tropics report that they have dive sites located within marine protected areas (MPAs). This is no surprise because MPAs are designed to protect the coral reefs, fish stock...
Field work blog – Post 3 Fishermen paddle dive tourists in small, unmotorised banca (outrigger canoes) out to snorkel with whale sharks in barangay Tan-Awan, Oslob, on the island of Cebu in the ...
Field work blog – Post 2 Up with the dawn. Dive tourists from all over the world and around the Philippines, take selfies before being paddled out by the local fisherman’s cooperative to ...
Field work blog – Post 1 Finally! Departed Cebu in the Philippines, on a big yellow bus to start field work at the highly controversial Oslob Whale Sharks. Oslob is a community based dive touris...