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The Journal is built by the people who get in the water. Divers, freedivers, scientists, fishermen, photographers, makers, the women who have carried the practice for centuries — and the listeners gathered around them. If you have something to say, we want to read it.
01 — What we publish
Four currents, one editorial standard: write like a person, not a brand.
- 海
Dispatches
Field reports from the water.
Expeditions, dive sites, and slow letters from the coast — written wherever the boats happen to be.
- 工
Craft
Studio notes & makers.
Inside the workshops where the objects are made. Materials, hands, hours, and the people who keep old skills alive.
- 姉
Sisterhood
Ama · Haenyeo · Sama-Bajau.
Voices from the diving women of the Indo-Pacific and the wider community gathering around them.
- 深
Deep Currents
Conservation, science, longreads.
The harder essays. Reef science, policy, and the questions a serious diving life eventually has to ask.
02 — Formats we love
Field notes
800–1,500 words. A dive, a coastline, a week.
Profiles
1,500–3,000 words. One person, drawn slowly.
Photo essays
8–20 frames with a short text accompaniment.
Longreads
3,000–6,000 words. Science, policy, history.
Obituaries
For a reef, a boat, a teacher, a practice lost.
Letters
Short. Anything that needed saying.
03 — The pitch
Tell us who you are and what you want to write. A few honest paragraphs beats a polished synopsis. We read everything within three weeks.
“We do not commission so much as we listen. The Journal belongs to the people who already know the water.”
— The Editors
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