Johan Boshoff has dedicated his life to scuba diving and marine life education around all of the world’s oceans and is always eager to see what the big blue has to offer.

After Johan learned to dive and had seen God’s wonders under the water, he decided to quit his job and to make scuba diving his full-time career.

He started diving in the 1990s and today holds diving qualifications as a Course Director and a Cave and Trimix instructor. He is also a commercial diver. In 2000 he started a diving company called The Dive Spot to accommodate both training and his mission to dive all the dive spots in southern Africa. In 2008 he completed his journey and personally dived all the dive spots featured in his book. While he was on these trips he also developed a computer program which hosts more than 4 500 photographs of marine life. This program, www.marinelife.co.za, helps marine lovers and scuba divers to learn more about the spectacular marine life in and around the ocean.

Johan has been involved with a number of underwater television documentaries for local and international filming crews and is also an accomplished underwater photographer. In addition, he took over the editorship of the local diving magazine, Divestyle, in 2005.

Today Johan is still active in the diving industry, providing dive training and operating specialised dive tours.

Annatjie Rademeyer is a Master Scuba Diver Trainer and co-owner of Specialty Divers South Africa, a scuba diving business which focuses on expanding the knowledge and skills of qualified recreational divers. She has been diving for more than a decade and has a passion for marine life preservation, education and exploration. Having dived at destinations around the world she is an avid underwater naturalist and photographer with a particular interest in the smaller creatures the oceans have to offer.

For this reason you will normally find her with her mask close to the reefs exploring the various nooks and crannies for that elusive nudibranch, sea horse or paper fish. One of her favourite diving destinations remains the coastline of Mozambique where she worked as diving instructor and guide at three resorts.