7 Questions – Paul ‘Max’ Lomax, Founder of Whalesong Art

Whalesong Art T-Shirt

Twitter is a great place to meet people and it’s where I met Max, @whalesongart who sells t-shirts with images created  from whale and dolphin song.  The t-shirts are beautiful (I know because I’ve got one). However, they’re not your average mass produced, printed t-shirt.  The fabric is organic, made using only wind and solar power and have a [...]

Saving our Oceans – One Note at a Time #OurBlue

the-tank-bangers

I stumbled upon The Tankbangers earlier this year. A group of divers based in Sharm, they unexpectedly found themselves with time on their hands in the wake of the shark attacks in December 2010.  So, they made a decision.  They could have laid on the beach, drinking beer all day but they decided to do [...]

Saving the Albatross from Extinction

albatross-long-line-fishing

An interesting thing happened this week.  For reasons that I won’t bore you with, I spent some time researching the RSPB (for my overseas readers, this is the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)  Now, I always thought that the RSPB campaigned exclusively in the UK.  How wrong could I have been. In partnership [...]

Things you can do to protect coral reefs

Scuba diving Bunaken Island, Indonesia

Looking at our planet from outer space, the first signs of life are coral reefs. Once these incredible structures were seen simply as a hazard by those who explored the oceans. Now we know that, like the rainforests, they are vital to our survival . . . . . [Diving the World- Beth and Shaun [...]