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Argentina
- To the End of the World: A Week Aboard the Mission to Protect Argentina’s Kelp Forests
- How Argentina moved faster than climate collapse to save its kelp
- What Next Generation Leaders Can Learn From The Tompkins’ Legacy
- An expedition team were filming in a remote kelp forest in Patagonia when this happened
- Expedition team films “surreal” sound echoing across beach in Argentina
Australia
- Haji’s story: Using tourism to preserve the Cocos Islands’ culture and environment
- Derek's story: Protecting the Last Wild Edges of Australia’s Ocean Frontier
- “This was a high-speed, high-stakes pursuit… the pace was relentless!" Divers spot rare manta ray chase at remote atoll
- Christmas Island's Wild Side: Protecting a Fragile, Connected Ecosystem from Land to Sea
- Saving Christmas Island: Sarah Wilson's Fight Against Yellow Crazy Ants for the Love of Red Crabs
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Why Diving Christmas Island is Like Nothing Else
- Cocos, Christmas & Crabs
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Diving The Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- I went diving with son of ‘worst shark attack ever’ victim – swimming with them is peaceful if you follow easy steps
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Exploring the Darkness with Australia’s Cave Divers
- From Sheep Farm to Dive Site
- The Spectacle
- Meeting Mammals
- The Apex Expert
- Secrets of the Underground
- Beyond the Chill
- The Big Four
- Take Me To Your Leader
- The Road to Bremer Bay
- The Road To Bremer Bay: A Quest To Find One Of The World’s Most Unique Orca Pods
- Life on the Edges of Earth
Belize
- Tara’s story: A 26-year-old’s fight to unite a community to save Belize’s vital marine ecosystems
- Live Bigger, Shine Brighter, Love Harder
- Through the lens of fly fishing: Adapting to a changing ocean in Belize
- Insurance for the Future
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Belize Fights to Save Reefs from SCTLD
- Power of Opposites
- Finding Friendships in Far Away Places
Brazil
Cambodia
Canada
- Boris’s story: Bringing “positive deviance” into the fight for ocean and climate health
- Jasmin Schuster: A Kelp Researcher’s Mission to Reverse a 95% Underwater Forest Loss
- The Fearless Underwater Explorer Breaking the Status Quo for Women Everywhere
- Connie’s Story: Preserving the magic of the kelp forests with a mix of Indigenous knowledge and science
- The Unlikely Dive Destination for Women Seeking Cold-Water Adventures
- The Search for the Lone Greenland Shark
- River Mussels
- Searching for aliens
- Discover The Best Cold-Water Scuba Diving in Canada
- Riding the Kelp and Currents of Campbell River
- Reflection in the Trees
- Meeting the Leading Woman in the Art of Cave Diving
- Flooding Suits and Fleeting Sharks
Chile
- Cape Froward: At the end of the world
- Patagonia’s Race Against Time to Save the Wild Huemul
- The Future Of Travel Belongs To Operators Who Protect What They Sell
- Preserving the Spirit of Patagonia: Inside Chile’s Groundbreaking Human-Wildlife Coexistence Project
- Running Wild: The Return of Patagonia National Park’s Rheas
- The Route of Parks: The Road to Pumalín, Patagonia, Chile
- When a boat came across a huge humpback whale carcass in Chile, they decided to do something amazing
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Elsewhere
- A 70-Year-Old Novice Diver Reviews the DIVEVOLK SeaTouch 4 Max
- A Journey to the Edges: How DIVEVOLK Became Part of Our Global Expedition Kit
- Ep. 1193: SCUBA for Preservation Around the World with Andi Cross
- Edges of Earth: A Driving Force for Change
- In-betweeners: The courage to belong
- A message of hope (and a dash of positive deviance)
- An Inspired Chat with Andi Cross
- The Next Generation of Travel: Conscious Exploration
- Top 5 Eco Dive Spots Around the World, How To Plan an Expedition, and Advice for Carving Your Own Path With Andi Cross
- Sitting on the Sidelines Is No Longer an Option
- Embracing Field Life
- The breaking point
- Making big dreams happen
- The Common Thread Found on the Edges of the Earth
- Traveling in a Warming World: How ‘Conscious Exploration’ is Putting Heat on Modern Travel Practices
- From Canvases to Currents: An Art Curator’s Call to Protect Our Seas
- Meet Andi Cross of WILDPALM & Edges of Earth
- Women in Conservation – SEVENSEAS Travel Magazine – Issue 116
- Oceanic Global x Edges of Earth
- Meet Andi Cross
- Living proof
- Meet the New SSI Ambassadors Here
- Riders on the Sea: Exploring the Edges of the Earth
- SHE Changes Climate Joins Forces with the Edges of Earth Expedition to Elevate Women's Voices in Environmental Advocacy
- Climate Champions team up with women-led expeditioners to accelerate Ocean Breakthroughs’ momentum
- Diving Into the Unknown & Finding Your Purpose With Andi Cross
- These Digital Nomad Companies Take the Guesswork Out of Seeing the World
- The 10 best places to visit in June
- Next Generation of Explorers: From Corporate World to Ocean Impact w/ Andi Cross, Edges of Earth
- Mares goes to the Edges of Earth to transform online discourse with ocean good news
- Celebrating International Women's Day: TPG's 10 best women-founded travel brands
- Adventure used to be a man’s game. Now women like me are breaking new ground
- Marine Conservation Institute Announces Key Partnership with the Edges of Earth Expedition
- For the Adventure of a Lifetime, Embrace the Unknown
- How I Pulled Myself Out of Burnout and Turn My Ambitions Into Reality
- Charting the Future with Andi Cross: Navigating Business Growth and Ocean Advocacy
- SSI Partners with Edges of Earth Expedition to Promote Ocean Conservation
- SSI Partners with Edges of Earth Expedition to Promote Ocean Conservation and Positive Impact
- Against all odds: Fulfilling a dream to become an SSI Divemaster
- SSI partners with Edges of Earth Expedition
- Global-tour diver is first SSI/Mares ambassador
- Female-Led “Edges of Earth Expedition” promotes Ocean Conservation
- Edges of Earth Expedition Amplifies Ocean Action, Launches Inaugural Partnership with Scuba Schools International (SSI) & Mares
- Edges Of Earth Expedition Launches Inaugural Partnership With SSI And Mares
- I quit my corporate job before 30 to become a pro diver
- Women-Led Expedition Going to the Edges of Earth
- How I left my unfulfilling corporate job to become a professional scuba diver
- Shining Light on the People & Communities Making a BIG Impact on Safeguarding the Planet
- 5 Tips to Quit Your Corporate Job
- PODCAST: Making Waves: Andi Cross on Pursuing Your Passion for Ocean Conservation
- Edges of Earth Expedition with Andi Cross
- Introducing Edges of Earth
- Social Impact Heroes Helping Our Planet
- How I Swapped a High-Flying Corporate Career to Become a Divemaster
- From Office Worker To Ocean Explorer: Woman Who Learned To Swim At 30 Quits Job To Go On A Two-Year Diving Expedition
- By Traveling To The Edges Of Earth, Team Seeks To Amplify Untold Stories Of Ocean Conservation
- Dive, Explore, Uncover Impact - Edges of Earth
- In Her Own Words: Andi Cross sails from boardroom to boat deck
England
Falkland Islands / Malvinas
Fiji
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
- The Science and Sustainability Behind Hong Kong’s Oyster Restoration
- Hong Kong's Intangible Heritage
- SSI x Edges of Earth – Shellfish Reef Diving in Hong Kong
- From Sea to Plate … to Sea! Hong Kong Puts Oyster Shells to New Use
- Beyond the Skyscrapers – Hong Kong Underwater
- The Survival of the Oyster
- The Story of Lo Ting
- Shifting Baselines
- Chasing Sea Bandits
Iceland
- Stefan’s Story: Navigating Change in Iceland’s Whale-Watching Capital
- Beyond Silfra: Iceland’s Divers Document a Vanishing Underwater World
- Protecting our fragile landscapes amidst climate change’s far-reaching impacts
- Beyond the Ring Road
- Answering The Whale Call: Our Return To Húsavík, Iceland
- Into the Wilderness: Exploring East Iceland
- The Skinner Lady
India
- Ruth’s Story: “Instead of thriving marine life, our elders see dead fish washing up on shore. My generation needs to be the reason this comes back”
- The Power of One
- SSI X Edges of Earth: Introducing The Legends at DiveIndia
- The Essential Guide to Scuba Diving in Andaman
- Spicy Misadventures & Unbreakable Bonds
- Meeting Seemant
Indonesia
Japan
- The Last Wave of Ama Divers
- Japan's Ama Divers: A 3,000-Year Tradition Fighting to Survive
- How Organizations Can Build The Future Of Sustainable Travel
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Diving with Japan’s Giant Salamanders
- A Community Finding its Bearings
- Why is it Always about Poop?!
- Single Breath Secrets
- Urchin Eyes
- The Great Salamander Quest
Kenya
Malaysia
Maldives
Mexico
- It came up with a mako shark in its mouth, eating some, then delivering the rest to – me. What happened next was extraordinary...
- Restoring the Gulf: Dr. James Ketchum Brings Science and Conservation Together to Protect his Home
- The Tradition Is Real. So Where Should You Do Your 100th Naked Dive? We’ve Found the Perfect Spot
- The Ring of Cenotes
- "One of the most exhilarating and unexpected dives of my life” – Scuba divers enveloped by huge fish off Mexican coast
- Porfiria’s Story: Redefining shark conservation by turning fishermen into ocean guardians in Baja California Sur
- Saving Cabo Pulmo, Mexico’s 20,000 year old reef: Judith’s story
- Searching for Yellowfins
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Tauchen in unberührten Ozeanen in Cabo Pulmo
- The Devil is in Baja
- A Year of Stories
- Tagging Hammerheads
- Needles in Haystacks
- It All Started with the Rays
- The Case of Cabo Pulmo
- Black Manta Moments
- The Great Tuna Festival of 2024
- Diving Taam Ja', the World's Deepest Blue Hole
- SSI x Edges of Earth: We Dived The World’s Deepest Blue Hole In Chetumal, Mexico
- Venturing To The Mayan Underworld: An Expedition To Merida
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Diving Merida’s Exceptional Cenotes
- Visiting One of Jacques Cousteau's Top 10
- Cozumel Scuba Diving: A Diver’s Dream Amidst Controversy
- Still Shocked to be some of the first
New Caledonia
New Zealand
- Little birds, big fight: New Zealand's little blue penguins
- Anna’s Story: Protecting New Zealand's Yellow-Eyed Penguins
- Kelp Country: A Diver’s Mission to Restore New Zealand’s Coastal Reefs
- What New Zealand’s Smallest Penguin Reveals About a Warming World
- Saving the Hoiho: How Women in New Zealand Are Rewriting the Future of Penguin Conservation
- The Pāua’s Power: Zane Smith on Conservation, Tradition, and Commercial Diving in Stewart Island
- Restoring the Wild: How Mamaku Point is Protecting Stewart Island’s Future
- The Future Of Investment: How Purpose-Driven Businesses Can Attract Investors
- Expedition Team has "unforgettable encounter" with one of New Zealand's Most Remarkable Creatures
- The Farm That Brought Little Blue Penguins Back
- Maara Moana: The First Ocean Garden
- Reclaiming Moana: Howard Reti’s Mission for Aotearoa’s Future Generations
- The Island's Beauty & Chaos
Nicaragua
Panama
Peru
Philippines
- Thresher Sharks Grace Divers with Close Encounter in Philippines
- Diver films close up of a shark's extraordinarily powerful secret weapon - and it's not its jaw - when hunting prey
- The Ripple Effect – Negros Oriental, Philippines
- ‘If we can’t fish any more, we’re going to die’: the volunteer sea patrols protecting precious Philippine waters
- Be A Traveler, Not A Tourist in Coron, Philippines
- A Week On Conservation’s Frontlines in Negros Oriental, Philippines
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Diving Consciously - Lessons from the Bait Ball Shoals
- Searching for Bait
- Threshers at Dawn
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Welcome to Blackwater Diving
- The Long Lost Search for Shell City
- The Urban Agronomist
- Meeting the Original Bantay Dagat
- Beneath the Sardine Sky
- The Best Dive Ever
- Mighty Oaks, From Tiny Acorns Grow
- Diving into Darkness
Portugal
- Francisco Garcia’s Take on the Future of the Wild Azores & Its Most Sacred Ocean Places
- Saving Portugal's Waves
- Fátima Pérez Neira: Putting a Spotlight on Shark & Ray Research in the Azores, Portugal
- São Miguel’s Future: Inside Ali Bullock’s Solar Branco Eco Estate and Ocean Azores Foundation
- An Ocean Photographer’s Calling
- Diving the Azores: The Wild Heart of the Atlantic
Saudi
Scotland
- Luke’s story: How rewilding is reviving Argyll’s iconic ecosystems
- Meeting Luke Senior: A Look Into How Rewilding is Reviving Argyll’s Iconic Ecosystems
- Scotland’s Bold Experiment in Conservation and Biodiversity at Kilchoan Melfort Trust
- Scotland's Flapper Skate
- Scotland’s Wild Revival: Kilchoan Melfort Trust’s Living Laboratory
- Chasing the Coos in the Heart of the Highlands
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
- Illegal ‘swim-with-whales’ tours in Sri Lanka pose growing threat to marine life: Study
- A Community’s Fight for Resilience: Saving Sri Lanka’s Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
- Sri Lanka's Lungs
- The Waves of Change
- Meeting the Seafood Queen
- Our West Coast Road Trip
- MARESSOL Project: Transforming Fishing Practices in Sri Lanka
- The Path to Restoration
- Go Local in Sri Lanka
- SSI x Edges of Earth: How Sri Lanka’s Divers are Fighting for Their Ocean’s Future
- Revelations in Raa Atoll
Tanzania
- Omari’s Story: Building the World’s First Privately Managed Nonprofit Marine Park
- The Serengeti Is Sending Us a Message: It Is Time We Listen
- Eleanor Carter Talks Chumbe Island: Inside the World's First M-PPA
- The Art Of Doing Well And Doing Good
- From Waste To Works Of Art: Inside Tanzania’s Shanga Workshop
- A One Month Safari into the Heart & Soul of East Africa
- Where Culture & Conservation Meet: Samuel Ceremony Mole’s Inside Look at the Randilen Wildlife Management Area
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Discover Tanzania’s Best-Kept Secret: Chumbe Island
- How a Tanzanian Workshop Restored Hope
- A Surprising Sight in Zanzibar
- Salim’s Zanzibar
Thailand
- Embracing community-based tourism as a way to thrive and survive amidst climate change: Chuen’s story
- Inside The Mission To Save The Moken Sea Nomads
- Similan Islands Diving: Exploring Thailand’s Best Islands
- The Modern Moken
- SSI x Edges of Earth: A Dive into the Moken Way of Life
- The Community Sister
- Fight the Bite
- Culture's Survivial on the Surin Islands
United States
- And just like spat: Oyster conservation on Manhattan's shores
- Chasing extinction: The search for megalodon
- Pete's Story: The Billion Oyster Project
- Portals to the Miocene: The Divers Hunting Extinct Sharks in Carolina’s Murky Depths
- The Search for Wild Florida
- Reality Check on Route 66
- Alaska’s Fight for Wildlife: Inside The State’s Wood Bison Rewilding Efforts
- The Women Fighting to Save Alaska's Cook Inlet Belugas
- JD’s Story: Transforming Alaska’s cold-water diving into a force for marine conservation and community resilience
- How Female Entrepreneurs Are Using Seaweed To Bridge The VC Funding Gap
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Fizemos mergulho em glaciares no Alasca
- From the Trail to Tradition: The Heart of Dog Sledding in Alaska
- There's No Place Like Nome
- Seward - The Attack of the Kraken
- Alaskan Glacier Diving in Freezing Alpine Waters
- The Call of Alaska's Canaries
- The Deeper We Go, The Less We Know
- Prehistoric Treasures: Fossil Diving for Megalodon Teeth
- Searching for the Megs in South Carolina
- The Road Back to Home
- How Businesses Can Give Back To The Environment And Their Communities
- The Otters and the Slough: Our Experience Exploring Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
- Conservation: California Kelp
- Conservation: Swaying the Future
- A Lover Letter to Julia
- Monastery Madness
- Jade Rocks
- Navigating Sustainability: The Critical Role Of Ethical Shipping
- Whale Tales and Fox Trails: Exploring California’s Best Kept Secret
- Conservation: The Gold Standard
- California's Connections
- SSI x Edges of Earth: The Catalina Island Sea Camp Transforming Children’s Lives
- Edges of Earth x SSI: My Dad Learnt to Dive at 65 And Loved It!
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Swimming in Forests - Why We Love Scuba Diving at La Jolla Cove
- From Social Media to the Sea
- Adventure: Pipeline to Preservation
- Want To Travel With The Surf Pros?
- Pipe & Ocean Conservation for the F*$%ing Girls
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Corals of Opportunity - The Oahu Community Saving Their Bay
- Talking Story in Hawai'i
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Manta Madness - Experiencing the iconic Kona Manta Dive
- Meeting Manta Man on Kona, Big Island Hawaiʻi
- Adventure: Big Island
- Pelagic Magic: Kona at Night
- Just a Sprinkle
- How a Storm Revealed the World's Best Shell Beach
- Meeting Canopy Meg
- SSI x Edges of Earth: Welcome to Weeki Wachee - Discovering Florida’s Sirens
- Better Alive Than Dead: How Companies Can Adopt More Sustainable Practices
- See largest manatee aggregation ever recorded in this Florida state park
- Conservation: Blue Spring
- SSI x Edges of Earth: The Devil’s Den And Back Again
- Guardians of the Manatees
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