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 late 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 this book. While he was on these trips he also developed a computer programme which hosts more than 3 000 photographs of marine life. This programme, 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.

Amilda Boshoff is a qualified ICU Nursing Sister who has always loved the ocean and all the beautiful creatures in it. During one of her diving courses she went on a trip to Sodwana where she accidentally became caught in Johan’s buoy line. A year later they got married on a rubber duck at exactly the same spot where they had met.

She then obtained her instructors qualification and accompanied Johan on the journeys to the dive sites of southern Africa, helping to compile the Marine Life educational CD. Amilda is also an avid shell collector and over the last couple of years she has accumulated a variety of different shells from all over the world.

She is also a freelance journalist and is an accomplished underwater photographer, but having a full-time job and being a mother, diving now has to fit in with the rest of her responsibilities. She is in love with the ocean, and scuba diving with her husband completes the love story.

This book is dedicated to our Creator.