A Tiki Tour of New Zealand #2

The New Zealand Post issued on 4 July 2012 a beautiful sheetlet for the second of the Tiki Tour series. And the stamp located right in the centre of the sheet features a scuba diver, calling the tourists' attention to the great dive spots located in the Abel Tasman region, along the northern coast of the south island. The sheet is broken up into 3 parts to make a set of 3 FDCs.

Brazil 2012 Rio +20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

As host of the Rio +20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Brazil issued on 1 June a souvenir sheet, a postcard, and a sheetlet of 24 stamps, shown above, to mark the event. The last stamp on the sheetlet, at the bottom right corner, probably depicting eco-tourism, features a scuba diver facing off a whale.

Congo 2012 Jules Verne & 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Democratic Republic of Congo supposedly released an issue about Jules Verne on 1st April 2012. The theme for his work - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - appears on 2 of the 4 stamps in the set, only one shows a man in a hardhat suit walking underwater. The 4 stamps are also found together in a souvenir sheet, and on individual small souvenir sheets.

Ivory Coast 2012 Jacques Yves Cousteau

Ivory Coast is supposed to have released this souvenir sheet in 2012 on the theme of marine fauna and oceanographers, containing a triangular stamp featuring Jacques Yves Cousteau and the Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori); certainly a strange choice of marine mammal, as this dolphin is found only in New Zealand waters, 2 oceans away from the ivorian waters. The sheet selvage shows an underwater scene filled with corals, reef fishes, a turtle and other tropical marine fauna.

Marshall Islands 2012 Robert Boyle

Marshall Islands issued on 23 April 2012, a sheetlet of 16 45-cent stamps on the theme of Great Scientists of the World, and there we find Sir Robert Boyle (1627-1691) who gave us Boyle's Law that is so important for scuba divers.

Uruguay 2012 The A Flag

The Uruguay Post Office released on 9 February 2012, the first stamp of the new definitives illustrating sign language, each one showing a hand sign for a letter of the alphabet, as well as the flag representing the letter. So this first definitive stamp shows the A flag that is used by scuba divers as a dive flag, to warn boat pilots that divers are underwater around the area, and to be careful.

Guinea 2010 100th Anniversary of Birth of Jacques Cousteau

The Republic of Guinea issued 2 souvenir sheets on 12 July 2010 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth Jacques-Yves Cousteau, inventor of SCUBA. The stamps in the first souvenir sheet also feature Émile Gagnan, co-inventor of SCUBA, and Jean-Michel Cousteau, the eldest son.