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The cycle of life and water are inseparable. We see clearly that, if humans want to save themselves, their duty is primarily to save the oceans. We dedicate this article to the oceans, water, to life, which depends on water... >>

(17-06-10) The Malay island Layang Layang, one of the favourite destinations for divers in the China Sea, is losing its corals alarmingly. We can see the effects of a devastating invasion of a starfish that is out of demographic control... >>

Text and pictures: Jorge Keller / Deep Blue-Vídeo

(27-05-10) It has the dubious distinction of having sunk twice. This is the Monte Cervantes, a luxury ship to transport passengers that ran aground on rocks in 1930 and which, 15 years later, after a laborious and lengthy process of recovery, finished sinking in the icy waters of the Beagle Channel when it was being tugged to the shipyard. >>

(21-04-10) Long trips to exotic destinations are more affordable every time, and plane is a main piece on them. So, it is interesting to review the physiological principles that affect us while we dive and the consequences of them in air travels. >>

(01-03-10) In the wake of the SeaWorld attack, Philip Hoare an expert in marine mammals explains how captivity drives orcas crazy and can turn them deadly. >>

(17-02-10) In the last decade, the surface of eelgrass in the natural setting of Maro at Nerja (Málaga, Spain) has dropped dramatically because of trawlers and flooding. In an article published in sur.es the author echoes the voice of an expert diver in the area, who denounced the disappearance of seagrasses in Maro’s seabed. >>

(09-02-10) Interview with Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, who has led the defense of whales to impossible limits. With great means, supported by donations, he faces Japanese whaling fleet doing “direct actions” that have become a real war with international repercussions. >>

(20/01/10) One of the stronger defenders of whales, Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Co-Founding Director Greenpeace, thinks about what has happened in the last 50 days in his fight for protecting whales from Japanese fleet. On his own, Steve Roest, Sea Shepherd’s CEO, sends a clear and forceful message about the intentions to continue in the same way. >>

(08/01/10) During the learning process, the training of a future diver has different stages in the relationship between instructor and student. On how these stages evolve and develop, the stability and safety of the diver to himself will depend to some extent, and it will especially affect his future ability to fully enjoy the underwater activity. >>

(03/12/09) The tragic disappearance of two fellow divers, Maria Lourdes and Israel, stirred again an issue that has been questioned since a lot of time: the precarious security of many of the yachts that offer life aboard in the Red Sea, where thousands of divers go onboard every year. >>

(23/11/09) Our reporter asks some questions about the hijacking of the tuna ship “Alakrana”. Questions that remain in the air but that are in mouth of most of the Spaniards and that have not arrived to the mass media. They give a deeper vision of this complicated issue. >>

(26/10/09)An edition full of emotions and surprises untill the end. It has been a hard competition developed in cordial atmosphere and with submarine pictures of very high quality that we can enjoy here... >>

(23/10/09) Our fotosub team tells us how they face a hard competition that is full with surprises and with uncertain ending. Currents, threaten of raining, low light… and excellent works as we can see in the images taken by the participants. >>

(21/10/09) Our underwater photography team tells how the first day of Photodive El Hierro 2009 has gone. A chronicle “from inside of the news” since Carmelo and Yolanda participate in the contest. >>

(08/10/09) Being able to discover Arctic belugas, big Atlantic sharks or Pacific reef fish in one day would be the dream of any diver. Well, without getting wet, we can do it visiting the Oceanographic in Valencia. >>

(30-07-09) A story of life and death that brings us closer to the reality of Mother Nature. Nothing, not man, is able to control the food chain or animal instincts. It is the story of a wild dolphin found wounded, cured in captivity and returned to the sea, where, in front of their caregivers, was devoured by a shark. >>

(21-05-09) "In a blue world" is the next part of “My camera and I". That’s a lot of sensations that come from the sea and the photography, and an important call to take care of our oceans. This time, it has been illustrated by the prominent and charismatic submarine photographer Víctor Tabernero... >>

(23/07/08) The baptism is the first experience in the submarine world; a great many of new sensations are possible for us. To get the title would be the next step. >>