Aquatic Adventures in Apo

Another double-day-off, another diving adventure! Since I enjoyed my last trip to Dauin so much, I did the same thing this time, but this time I signed on to a day trip to Apo Island. We did three dives and they were absolutely incredible. We saw turtles, nudibranchs,...

The Obligatory Introduction Post

Taking a trip down memory lane here, but I figured I might as well start at the beginning. I am a marine biologist and I love diving, SCUBA and free-diving, although I have no formal training in the latter! I have been SCUBA diving since 2012 and I am an SSI Dive...

Diving Down in Dauin

Give me an excuse to go diving and I’ll usually be there faster than you can say SCUBA. A double day off sounded like a decent excuse to me so I made my way to Dauin, a beachside town in Negros Oriental, Philippines. I did two dives, one on the sandy slope and one on...

Reefs and Reef Sharks

Since moving to the Philippines and being in the water almost every day, I have gotten a lot better at free-diving, so I can actually take half decent underwater pictures without needing to SCUBA dive now! I still love SCUBA diving, don’t get me wrong, but now I...

30×30: A Blueprint for Ocean Protection

Through my MSc course (Marine Environmental Management at the University of York) I was lucky enough to get involved with one of the new Greenpeace campaigns. As a part of my MSc we had to spend two months working with an external organisation on a research project....