PIERRE CONSTANT visits a volcanic island chain in Papua New Guinea on the long-established liveaboard FeBrina for some extremely unspoilt diving. He took the photographs I first met Alan 35 years ago at the exotic bar of the Kavieng Hotel in Kavieng, New Ireland, and we had a lively chat
PIERRE CONSTANT goes on a tiger shark hunt in South Africa, though for a while it looks as if the elements will refuse to play ball Planted with palm trees and Norfolk pines, the small town of Umkomaas is 40km south of Durban, on the KwaZulu-Natal coast. Built on lush
PIERRE CONSTANT makes all sorts of unexpected connections when he travels to dive in a little-known part of New Caledonia It was an early-morning departure on the Betico 2, bound for Lifou Island. Check-in was at 6am at the ferry terminal in Noumea, New Caledonia’s main port. Maximum baggage allowance
There is more to the Pacific islands of Vanuatu than the iconic wreck of the President Coolidge, says French diver PIERRE CONSTANT, after discovering as much when he decided to go his own ‘local way’ on the island of Espiritu Santo. He took the photographs On my second day in
PIERRE CONSTANT has been in Mexico, ever-keen to delve deeper into its cenotes – especially at a time when at least some of them could be coming under threat. He wrote the report and took all the pictures… Yucatan is a fascinating land, not only for its culture, its unique
PIERRE CONSTANT gets bugged by people who persist in believing that fur seals are, in any sense, seals. Please let him set the record straight, with the help of his photographs A long time ago, in the last century, I was a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands. Taking more
Exploring the mysterious Mikea caves in southern Madagascar became almost an annual ritual for PIERRE CONSTANT over more than a decade, and he learnt much about subterranean diving in the process. He also came across the remains of strange creatures forgotten by time My relationship with the Indian Ocean island
Join PIERRE CONSTANT as he explores the reefs and wrecks of underwater Oman during a recent tour with his camera of the northern parts of the kingdom Lauren Davies, the Welsh manager of Musandam Discovery Diving, is all smiles when we meet at Khasab airport. I’m driven to the staff
PIERRE CONSTANT has been on another of his epic dive-trips to unexpected locations – this time he has been encountering creatures of the sea, land and air off the beaten track, from western Cuba down to the Bay of Pigs At the confluence of the Gulf of Mexico and the
Way off the beaten track, as he often tends to be, diver-explorer PIERRE CONSTANT seeks out cave-sites on a West Papua island where Japanese forces once burrowed into subterranean networks during World War Two The main island of the Biak archipelago lies in Cenderawasih Bay, near the northern coast of
PIERRE CONSTANT explores the array of underwater wonders accessible to divers from Papua New Guinea’s renowned Tawali Resort – and it isn’t only critter diving Diving in Milne Bay started more than 40 years ago. Back then it was all about liveaboards; the first cruises were initiated by Bob Halstead,
PIERRE CONSTANT teams up with an instructor he introduced decades ago not only to diving but to swimming, and together they explore Japan’s volcanic Ryukyu island chain, commonly referred to as Okinawa Kirin always loved the water. At the age of four he was brought along on one of the
Dragons, manta rays, rare critters and Hobbit Men’s remains await the scuba diver visiting Komodo National Park, a magical reserve but one that also has its challenges to overcome. PIERRE CONSTANT provides his overview in words and pictures The Indonesian archipelago lies at the crossroads of three major tectonic plates:
PIERRE CONSTANT has paid a visit to the island of Fernando de Noronha, east of Brazil, to sample its unique atmosphere and, more especially, its scuba diving If you were a South American seabird, you could fly 525km from Recife or 350km from Natal on the north-east coast and alight
DAN Europe founder Alessandro Marroni is realising a 50-year-old dream, says MICHAEL MENDUNO, chief of InDEPTH magazine (of which news below). As the title published this interview late last year, Dr Marroni and his team were preparing to test their real-time diver-monitoring system DANA-Health. It’s an integrated sensing device, app