MALDIVES: CRUISE DIVING MANTA CRUISE
MALDIVES DIVING: MAAFUSHI A LOCAL ISLANDIn the space of thirty years, tourist activity has replaced the traditional fishing sector as the engine of economic development. In 2000, it contributed about 20% of the GNP, 32% of the country's income and 75% of foreign exchange inflows. From the start, the government preferred to separate the islands dedicated to tourism from other inhabited islands, so as to limit contact between a local 100% Muslim society and 80% Western tourists. So that 87% of the tourist capacity of the Maldives today takes the form of hotel islands ... |
THE WORLD OF FREEDIVING: A BOOK, AN ADVENTURE ...How, after more than twenty years of scuba diving escapades, come to realize a book on freediving? Isn't that a bit “unnatural”? “In fact, it's more of a homecoming,” says Philippe; “When I began to work alongside great champions like Tanya Streeter, Loïc Leferme and Fred Buyle during the world championships in 2000 to produce the images, I looked like an elephant in a porcelain store, surrounded by pipes, bottles and other regulators… ”… |
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MEDITERRANEAN DIVE SPOTS… IT'S GOING !!!Mediterranean Dive Spots allows users, all over the world, to choose and prepare their travel destinations in the Mediterranean, based on their research concerning their favorite activity: diving ... |
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