10 YEARS OF LESSONS AND DISCOVERIES
When I wrote my first story for Asian Diver, I had only really just started to understand these spawning events. Back then, I thought I had itall dialled in, but as usual, Mother Nature loves to show us who’s boss and I have been humbled many times in the process. So here are my thoughts and discoveries from a decade of diving Palau’s spawning aggregations.
PLANNING DIVES AROUND LUNAR PHASES
I have been fortunate enough to dive in Palau for more than 20 years. I have yet to get bored of diving here with the number and diversity of dive sites. But the real attraction that keeps me coming back year after year is the predictability of certain spawning events. The more you start to learn and understand these events, the better the diving becomes each year when you start piecing together itineraries based around these lunar phases.
WHAT ARE SPAWNING AGGREGATIONS?
A spawning aggregation is a natural phenomenon that occurs when a group of fish or other marine organisms gather together in a specific location for the purpose of
