The 2026 revised and updated edition of the authors' 2021 Underwater Photography Awards International Book of the Year. A superb photographic journey through Wakatobi, one of the world's largest privately funded marine conservation reserves. Diving here brings more than just short-term enjoyment for visitors. It makes a significant contribution to the well-being of local communities, and helps ensure the long-term sustainable management of the globally important coral reefs within the reserve's boundaries. “Wakatobi; Conservation. In depth” reveals the vision of the local communities, and illustrates the success of their approach to economically sustainable conservation with more than 200 pages of extraordinary photographs with short, entertaining, explanatory texts

Wade Hughes has logged more than 600 dives at Wakatobi. He is an International Fellow of the Explorers Club, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a multi-award winning photographer. He has dived extensively round the world from the Arctic Circle and the Southern Ocean, to the equatorial tropics.
Robyn is an accomplished diver and award-winning photographer who began her international travels as a teenager. She took up writing and photography after a career in banking, and, with Wade, has since visited more than 50 countries.