Scuba Diver Australasia Magazine + ALERTDIVER Issue 07/2015 | Seite 6

# contents wow 7/2015 SDAA No.84 26 EPIC STINGRAY Text & Images by Alex Lindbloom 82 #portfolio HENRY JAGER 90 #divetrip BALI 96 #icon RAJAN bucketlist 28 VERY VERDE Text & Images by Mike Bartick With the greatest recorded shore fish biodiversity on the planet, you need to get the Verde Island Pass on your bucket list asap Takashi Murai 06 #briefing 08 #uw3some 10 #uwphotography An unexpected encounter with a ray that is either the largest stingray ever documented, or a whole new species… 32 SRI LANKA’S UNORTHODOX WHALE Text by Steve De Neef Images by Franco Banfi Encountering a unique, resident population of blue whales, the biggest animal that has ever lived 38 25 RECORD-BREAKERS IN ASIA PACIFIC Text by Oliver Jarvis and Alice Grainger Images by Various Contributors From the biggest animals, the most dangerous, loudest and slowest, to the deepest ocean explorations, Asia Pacific is packed with record breakers – some are deadly serious, others… just for fun whatitfeelslike THE 30 MEET RECORD BREAKERS Dive champions Herbert Nisch and Sean McGahern describe the elation of breaking some of the toughest underwater world records