Fits Like a Glove: The Rise of an Iconic Ocean Apparel Brand

by Blue Ocean Network

Celebrating their 60th year in business in 2013, Body Glove is an iconic American business success that helped create the Southern California surf culture of the 1950s and 1960s. A newly published book, “Fits Like A Glove” brings to life the rise of Body...

DiveAssure Introduces Unique Liveaboard Travel Insurance Rider

by Blue Ocean Network

DiveAssure recently introduced a unique and exclusive program that covers scenarios specific to liveaboard trips that are not covered by any other travel insurance program on the market. The new Liveaboard Rider offers the most comprehensive coverage for liveaboard...

Thousands protest W. Australia’s Shark Culling Policy

by Blue Ocean Network

(Blue Ocean Network.com – February 1, 2014 ) — Thousands of people took to beaches across Australia yesterday to protest against a controversial shark culling policy designed to prevent attacks. Carrying placards, foam sharks and chanting “stop the cull”,...

Net Loss: Most Imported Seafood We Eat Kills Marine Mammals.

by Blue Ocean Network

Huffington Post — A new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reveals a startling truth about the seafood that Americans eat: more than 91 percent of it is imported, and “nearly every foreign fish product sold in the United States enters...

Dive Legend Valerie Taylor Visits Amazon of the Ocean in Landmark Series

by Blue Ocean Network

New Straits Times — THE CORAL TRIANGLE is a landmark series that unlocks the hidden secrets of the Ocean’s Amazon – a six million square kilometres encompassing  Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands,...

Tourism Plays a Significant Role in Protecting Natural, Cultural World Heritage Sites

by Blue Ocean Network

UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) forged a new cooperation agreement consolidating efforts on sustainable tourism and the protection of natural and cultural heritage. “Tourism can...

ICTP President: Time for Travel & Tourism Industry to embark on Green Growth Transformation Journey

by Blue Ocean Network

Speaking at the Forum, “The Growth of the International Travel Economy and Protection of the Environment,” at the Harvard University Extension School, Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President of the International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP) and Director of...

International Study: Oceans Suffer Silent Storm as CO2 Acidifies Waters.

by Blue Ocean Network

Global warming is causing a silent storm in the oceans by acidifying waters at a record rate, threatening marine life from coral reefs to fish stocks, an international study showed on November 14, 2013. The report, by 540 experts in 37 nations, said the seas could...

The Ocean is our Silent Partner: Yet it has No Place at the Dive Industry Table.

by Blue Ocean Network

DTBN.com Editorial —  by Laurie J. Wilson DEMA’s Moving Towards 2020: Developing a Strategic Vision for the Recreational Diving Industry brainstorming session was held on the closing Saturday of DEMA Show 2013 in Orlando, Florida. Scheduled during show...

Sano: We Can No Longer Call These “Natural” Disasters.

by Blue Ocean Network

Typhoon Haiyan, that devastated the Eastern Visayas, and ravaged the beautiful gem of a dive island, Malapascua, brought out what should be self-evident: Our dive travel businesses rely on the ocean, but we take this fact for granted in our daily lives. As Clement...