Why Roatan is heaven for underwater photographers

Mickey Charteris is a famend underwater photographer and creator of the favored reef information Caribbean Reef Life, now into its fourth version, with over 1,500 Caribbean reef species recognized and described. He is the resident photograph professional at CocoView Resort on Roatan, Honduras, and he’ll be explaining why the island is heaven for underwater photographers on the Atlantic City Scuba Show on 6-7 June.

Mickey will introduce his e-book Caribbean Reef Life and clarify why CocoView Resort on Roatan, Honduras, is the right place for underwater photographers and reef fanatics. All kinds of reef habitats, from partitions and reeftops to wrecks and muck-diving, is accessible proper from the shore.

Atlantic City Scuba Show

The Atlantic City Scuba Show, this 12 months sponsored by www.scuba.com, is launching its inaugural occasion in 2026 (6-7 June). A sister present to the long-established Long Beach Scuba Show, it represents the primary reveals beneath the banner of latest homeowners Rork Media Limited, which additionally runs the GO Diving Shows within the UK and Australia, and publishes the global-multi-edition Scuba Diver journal, in addition to being behind the Scuba Diver Magazine YouTube Channel, and long-established web site Divernet.

At this new East Coast occasion, Rork Media plan to retain all the things that made the Scuba Show such a staple on the West Coast diving circuit, and improve it with new and improved components, together with a Main Stage with an enormous video wall proper within the exhibition corridor itself, a brand new format designed to stimulate exploration across the lots of of cubicles, and extra interactive points of interest together with a VR dive on a deep-water shipwreck within the Baltic Sea, the Marine Careers Experience, the place you possibly can pilot an precise ROV via an impediment course, get a selfie with a distinction in our Shark Cage, and way more.

As effectively because the Main Stage within the exhibition corridor, there may be additionally an Inspiration Stage host to some really distinctive audio system.

Whether you’re an skilled diver, a brand new fanatic, or simply curious concerning the underwater world, the Scuba Show brings collectively all the things you like about diving beneath one roof.

Greg Holt from Scuba Radio can be entertaining the crowds on mornings earlier than and because the present opens, providing loads of enjoyable and video games, and the possibility to win some wonderful prizes.

Explore lots of of exhibitors showcasing the newest scuba gear, dive locations, underwater images tools, coaching applications, and ocean conservation initiatives, and join with dive professionals, journey operators, and fellow divers from throughout the nation.

You may even promote your previous scuba equipment on the Scuba Show to release a few of your hard-earned money to go and purchase shiny new gear, e-book that subsequent trip, or join your subsequent coaching course. Eastern Sports can be on-hand on the present to provide you a money supply in your used scuba gear so you possibly can then go spend that money at different distributors. You don’t even must haul all of your equipment with you – additionally they supply a free delivery program for patrons to ship their gear, so chat to the crew on the present flooring.

There can also be the chance to develop your skillset. The PSI-PCI Visual Cylinder Inspection course is open to everybody who needs to examine high-pressure respiration gasoline cylinders, or simply know concerning the course of. These specialty programs help the inspection course of with formal perform particular coaching on valve upkeep and restore, and Oxygen Cylinder Cleaning. Inspectors who’re on the three-year renewal mark and need to attend the PSI-PCI Update course will be capable to handle it on the Scuba Show as effectively.

PSI-PCI gives the one coaching that’s formally endorsed, utilized, and referred to by the cylinder producers. The coaching has been created with the enter of business professionals and consultants in every subject to give you the most effective coaching out there to satisfy the Federal necessities for the related processes.  You can be part of the crew of PSI-PCI Professionals on the Scuba Show. Don’t wait, seats will refill shortly! Click here for extra info and to e-book a slot.

The Scuba Show gives two full days of ocean journey, hand’s-on experiences, and unique present specials, and is the place the US dive neighborhood comes collectively to rejoice the underwater world.

Get your tickets now!

Tickets are on sale now for the Scuba Show, and new for 2026, there’s a change to the price of entry – there may be now one ticket worth, which will get each attendee full entry to the Exhibition Hall, and all the displays.

With most of the audio system on the devoted Inspiration stage both solely presenting on one of many days, or giving two totally different talks, plus with the headline acts on the Main Stage, and the plethora of cubicles, interactive components and way more, there may be a lot to maintain you occupied on each days, so why not make a weekend of it?

Tickets can be found now – click here – priced at $33 for a day ticket, and $60 for a weekend cross. There can also be the choice of a VIP Pass, which features a weekend cross plus 6 problems with Scuba Diver journal and 6 problems with California Diving News (Magazine supply US & Canada residents solely), and a Scuba Show Dive Team T-shirt, for $100.

Under 16s go free – convey the household and let the children dive into the enjoyable as effectively.

Join us for 2 unimaginable days, 6-7 June 2026, celebrating the world of diving on the Atlantic City Convention Center!