With the help of a very kind Taiwanese gentleman, Paladin Liu, I am now pleased to offer a Chinese version of the Code of Conduct for diving with and photographing pygmy seahorses.
Paladin has been seeing pygmy seahorses on some of his dives in Taiwan and wished to help protect them by sharing the Code of Conduct with his dive buddies. I’m really pleased for his input and helping for this information to reach such a wide audience.
This Chinese version can now be downloaded below. Please follow this link to the English, French and German versions. I hope to soon have Indonesian and Italian versions available. If you are able to offer your services to translate the Code into any other languages please let me know!
Anyway, for any Chinese readers here is the introduction to the Code of Conduct:
豆丁海馬是一種體型很小的魚，大約只有1.4到2.7公分長。其中的兩個品種，巴氏及丹氏豆丁海馬，則是特別居住在海扇的表面。這兩種海馬的體型都非常的小，所居住的海扇也非常的脆弱，因此常常遭受到潛水員一時疏忽所帶來的傷害。為了好好的保護這些稀有的嬌客，我們在這裡列出了一些行為準則，以減少潛水員對牠們所帶來的負面影響。
Attachment: Pygmy Seahorse Code of Conduct Chinese.pdf