This year's World Oceans Day is particularly significant. 2025 is a crucial year for the oceans, a year of deadlines and milestones. Important international marine agreements and treaties have been concluded, which will hopefully be implemented this year. It is definitely time to remind ourselves again and again of the fragile state of our oceans – and that is what this special day is all about.

Photographing birds at just the right moment is no easy task. Lucky are those who can rely on "Pro Capture" technology. With it OM SYSTEM makes it easy to capture birds in their desired flight position. With our OM 1 MKII and Pro Capture mode, even a simple bird portrait can so be transformed into something extraordinary.

Sashimi shrimp next to Cyerce Nigra, leopard shrimp alongside Melibe Colemani, and chocolate shrimp close to Pontohi pygmy seahorses — this is Romblon. Here, in the diving areas around the Three P Dive Resort, macro madness reigns supreme. Amidst a mega-biodiversity of macro- and micro-organisms, every underwaterphotographer's dream comes true.

Endless darkness, no sea floor, and no shore in sight? Welcome to Romblon, home to some of the best blackwater diving in the world. Prepare to be amazed by a nocturnal cabinet of curiosities, where the most bizarre and unusual creatures rise from the depths of the sea to reveal their full and strange beauty.

As freelance authors and photographers, we are delighted to have found another great opportunity to present our stories and impressions from the depths of the world's oceans to an interested readership through EZ DIVE Magazine, the first bilingual diving magazine and largest Chinese diving portal in Asia.

Admittedly, all the underwater photographers have their favourite subject that they would like to photograph during their diving career. Whether all their wishes will be fulfilled is questionable. Especially when it's a hairy octopus. So rare that most underwater photographers can only dream of this motif. For us, it was a dream come true. Without doubt - the hairy jackpot!