By Tarni Fernando for The Dalhousie Gazette | Photos provided by Bonny Perron

Dal alumna Alisha Postma (BSc’12) and her partner Joey Postma are a scuba diving couple that gets to combine their passion with diving with education. The couple travel province to province to explore the bodies of water within them and sharing their findings through photograph with people who would otherwise not be able to explore the underwater environment. 

Alisha and Joey Postma are living their best life. The wife and husband have been scuba diving around Canada since May, documenting the underwater world for their new online project – Canadian Splash.

he goal of the 13-part project, which the couple launched on July 1, is to explore and photograph the waters of all provinces and territories in Canada. So far, they’ve dived in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia as well as Newfoundland and Labrador.

“There’s not very much resources out there about scuba diving opportunities in Canada,” says Alisha (AKA Ali). “I mean sure you have the Great Lakes in Ontario … but you know what? There’s actually really cool places in every single province and territory. We just need to find them.”

Education and inspiration

Canadian Splash is just the latest of a few projects on the couple’s website, Dive Buddies 4 Life, which they started two years ago.

“It’s basically an education platform,” Ali says of Dive Buddies. Among many things, the website includes resources for scuba divers, scientific profiles on aquatic animals and original underwater photography and videos from the couple’s dives around the world.

“We’re kind of bringing a lot of different things together in the hopes that we can reach a big audience,” says Ali. By teaching people about the world’s lakes, rivers and oceans, Ali says she hopes people will be “inspired” to protect the water and its wildlife.

A large part of Ali’s desire to protect the water comes from her time spent at Dalhousie University. She has a bachelor’s degree from Dal in marine biology and sustainability. It was also at Dal that Ali and Joey met each other through the Dal water polo team.

Read the full article “Scuba diving couple bring aquatic life to the surface” on dalgazette.com.