My time with Red Sea Diving Safari ended with an exciting three hour van ride from Marsa Shagra to Hurghada together with Sarah O’Gorman and Ellie from Baladi Watch. In the van with us we had the little pup I found a few weeks ago and two of Baladi Watch’s bigger dogs Charlie and Coco. […]

It was 5:45 am. I had just walked up the hill to the restaurant to enjoy the last bits of sunrise and sip on a cup of water before the morning dive. Suddenly, I saw, Sheeka, one of the staff members from the dive shed waving at me from below! “Arzu, come down! Quickly!”, he […]

My year as the OWUSS European Rolex Scholar officially started in mid-July after handing in the first draft of my MSc thesis on anthropogenic disturbance of whale sharks in the Maldives, with two more months of writing to be continued after my return. Instead of heading to the tropical latitudes, however, my first experience took […]

Merhaba and Hallo! My name is Arzucan Askin (to most people I am simply known as “Arzu” or “Zuzu”) and I am incredibly excited to invite you to come along on my journey as the 2021 European Rolex Scholar of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society. I’ll be sharing stories from the sea and my year of advanced […]

Tasmania In December, I took the opportunity of having a few days spare in between scholarship experiences to visit my fellow Rolex Scholar from Australasia, Joanna, in her home: Tasmania. World-renowned for the diversity of Wildlife animals living there, I was very enthused about visiting the Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, who rescue and rehabilitate native Marsupials, […]