Dive Mag ads and articles are so often ignorantly wrong

[MauiScubaSteve]

Every December a magazine I get just because of my annual instructor fees runs a special advertising section on Hawaii. For at least the last 4 years it is mostly unchanged, just changing the order of Islands.

In the Big Island section there have been no changes and here is a prominent passage;

At Garden Eel Cove, massive manta rays come in at night to feed on tiny krill and other organizims attracted to lights set on the sea floor. It's a world-class site straight from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. City of Refuge and Turtle Pinnacle attract green sea turtles by the dozen to their cleaning stations. The lava substrate has riddled the shoreline with underwater caverns, in which you'll find nurse sharks, legions of squirrelfish and every kind of ray of light imaginable.

I did the bolding, but this ad has been printed unchanged for at least 4 years, and I'm wondering how I missed the nurse sharks.

There is lot's of other ignorant wrongs in this and most other dive mags ads and articles and I think we should have fun making fun of them!

 

[makomike]

Totally agree. I laughed when i saw it again. Sad, but funny.

 

[kidspot]

yeah ... somebody needs to do some work on their fish I.D.s. - I always get a kick out of the articles about diving on Maui seem like diving with whales is an every day occurance ... wishful thinking...

But since these things are "in print" they must be true, eh?