By Heneage Mitchell & Paul Lees 

Krabi Province in Thailand features some of the most stunning landscape to be found anywhere in the world within the protected boundaries of Noppharat Thara Marine National Park.  

The coast of the mainland and numerous offshore islands feature a mixture of sheer rocky cliffs, elevated jungles and coconut trees which majestically roll down to the water’s edge to meet with glorious sandy beaches. The rusty red and grey cliff faces are scarred with numerous caves and crevices and can be climbed to reach a mountain top lagoon.  

By Heneage Mitchell 

Khao Lak was struck particularly hard by the devastating tsunami of December 24, 2004. The beaches and the resorts dotting the coast line suffered terribly from the surging water, and many hundreds of victims were never found.  

For the living, life goes on, and the heroism of the survivors, as well as their grief, may not be evident to visitors these days. There is little evidence remaining of the appalling destruction wreaked by nature: rather, there is an overwhelming impression of natural beauty and tranquility. 

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What could be the common point between a fish exporter from Norway, a Chief Information Officer and diving instructor living in the Netherlands, a renowned lawyer based in Cyprus, a Project Managerworking in Sweden, and a Technical Diving Instructor far from France? Since summer 2007, Spyros and Cedric have been discussing about the HMS Victoria, the impressive and quite unusual wreck that lies vertical between 140m/460ft and 77m/250ft, her bow deeply stuck in a thick layer of silt, a few miles off Tripoli, Lebanon.

The team at Maluku Divers recently rediscovered a very interesting frogfish in Ambon Bay.

During a dive on Laha which is just fifteen minutes from the dive facility and newly refurbished en-suite resort accommodation on the southern coast of Ambon, in the village of Latuhalat, divemaster Toby Fadirsyair and owner Buck Randolph were incredibly excited to spot this little specimen.

Text and photos by: Beth and Shaun Tierney

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Looking down over the wall from the shallows, we watch the most impressive of fish displays. Masking the deep blue water, ribbons of redtooth triggers swim above waves of rainbow runners who mingle with masses of lined snapper.

More than 330 tropical islands surrounded by the blue water of the South Pacific comprise the Fiji Islands. Also called ‘the soft coral capital of the world’.

The island of New Guinea, the second largest in the world after Greenland, is located just south of the equator and to the northeast of the continent of Australia.