Macro diving

The definition 'macro diving', nowadays widely used and understood by underwater photographers and film-makers, or just scuba divers with years of scuba diving experience, still requires explanation to a novice scuba diver.

Macro diving is something opposite to scuba diving with the purpose of watching big sea creatures like sharks, whales, dolphins etc. The sea depths are populated with a whole huge world of tiny marine creatures, which are by no means less interesting to examine and explore than larger forms of the sea fauna and flora. And there's lot of scuba divers curious specifically in observing these tiny creatures like shrimps in their natural environment and taking big underwater close-up, sometimes even larger-than-life size, images of them using their underwater camera.

For this purpose photographers use the so-called macro lenses capable of focussing just inches away from an object and increasing the scale of the object they take shot of. Hence comes the term 'macro diving' ('macro' is the the Greek word for 'big').

Macro diving is scuba diving with a focus on tiny sea creatures, and macro divers are a scuba divers, who like taking pictures of tiny marine creatures.

Some fabulous macro diving dive locations are situated at Mabul and Kapalai islands, Malaysia; Puri Jati in the north of Bali; Uepi, Solomon Islands; Walindi, PNG; Liveaboard, MV Chertan, PNG; Seven Seas, Raja Empat; Palau, Micronesia; Tavenuni, Fiji; colorful reefs *

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