Since December 2010, the Dubai Turtle Rehabilitation Project (DTRP) have received over 360 sick or injured sea turtles from the people of Dubai and environmental organizations such as EMEG. 90% of the animals washing up are juvenile hawksbill turtles between the weights of 200 and 500 grams. Similar events have happened on an annual basis since the project started in 2004 although this year the amount of animals is unprecedented. We attribute the annual ‘stranding’ of this pa

One weekend during the month of the May 2011 I joined a bunch of like-minded divers from the Atlantis Underwater Photography Club and headed off on an unforgettable two day Musandam dive trip. Being a group of photographers of all levels of experience our primary goal was to have fun, share and learn from each other as well as all working hard to get three photographs for our ‘share and discuss’ presentation at our next club meeting (first Tuesday of every month). Of course