INTRODUCTION

At the start of a New Year, another inspiring issue of

Scuba Diver OCEAN PLANET lies in front of you!

It’s always a new opportunity to start with a clean slate, to look at the past year and reflect on what was established and which challenges need more effort.

This issue of Scuba Diver OCEAN PLANET takes you on a journey around the world showing you beauty in peril. Nature is perfect and always tries to find a balance, between hunter and prey, between abundance and scarcity, between warm and cold seasons, between feeding and breeding, keeping all forms of life alert.

Around the globe, knowledge is available at the touch of a finger, which should give us power to sustain and preserve our oceans, hence our planet. By taking you, the reader, on this trip around the world in images of at-risk species, we hope to encourage you to stop postponing the changes, big or small, you can make today towards a sustainable planet for all life forms. We hope these images motivate you to protect what you love, to be the change you want to see!

Whether your wanderlust will take you to faraway places experiencing amazing and humbling encounters, or you’ll just browse through this issue, we hope it inspires you to use your voice even if it’s a silent one. Together our roar will be so loud that it can’t be ignored. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to the next generations and we owe it to life!