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Purpose-built Tawali resort is hidden in the tropical forests on top of a limestone on the eastern cape of Papua New Guinea, a two-hour drive and ten-minute boat ride from Alotau airport.

As divers, we often come across majestic or stunning underwater sceneries that we would like to share with others back on the surface.

Not everyone can afford to complement their underwater camera with external strobes. But shooting anything further than a meter or so away without external strobes often results in monochrome blue (or green) images.

Mathieu Meur is author of a number of books on underwater photography and will be conducting photography workshops as part of the 2011 Underwater Festival 2-11 September 2011.

Most of my holidays revolve around diving, or a place where I can at least snorkel, and the colour dominating my thoughts is always blue.

Cocos Keeling is a widely unknown tropical island paradise but thanks its hosting of an UF11 Fringe Event it is about to be added to the holiday wish list of many of the region’s divers.

A four-hour drive west of Adelaide, Whyalla is a seaside mining town known as the place “where the outback meets the sea”.

There is just something about having a holiday at a resort on an island… Surrounded by sunshine, sand and blue water.

In 2004, a group of Europeans set up the Misool Eco Resort in the middle of nowhere about four hours by speedboat from Sorong, West Papua.

Right off the bat I want to make it clear that, to the best of my knowledge, I've never used an underwater scooter before.