With reef-safe sunscreen becoming an increasingly hot topic, we caught up with Jim Standing – Director at Fourth Element – to find out how they are helping divers protect themselves from the sun while avoiding harmful chemical sunscreens.

This May, The Reef-World Foundation’s partner, Explorer Ventures Liveaboard Fleet, launched the “Dive Green” sustainably promise. Read nore about the initiative here…

Aine reflects on her four months with Reef-World, how she sometimes found herself on a “seesaw of inspired optimism and total hopelessness” and what is giving her continued hope for the future.