On my recent trip to the Mediterranean I was able to witness the effect this year’s abnormally high temperatures have had on the region’s gorgonians.One of the most interesting and downright attractive of the Med’s ecosystems is the deep rocky reefs dominated by the gorgonian [...]
In this post I want to share images of three fish that I think are particularly striking, two of which I’ve had very limited success with. My first is the Long-snouted Seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus). In aquarium circles, seahorses are not too rare, with an increasing number [...]
I’ve been sharing a few images of fish from a recent trip to the Mediterranean, but thought I’d take a break and share some images of anemones from this fascinating and often overlooked region.The animal in the main image above is a Dahlia Anemone (Cribinopsis crassa). Not to be [...]
This is the Red-lipped Goby (Gobius cruentatus), a particularly striking fish that I’ve found quite elusive over the years, in fact this is the first time I’ve ever seen one, even though they are quite common in the Med. It also occurs along the coast of the eastern Atlantic, [...]
I think most people are aware of just how colorful wrasses can be, the fish seem to have an infinite number of color patterns. Wrasses are most common in tropical regions, but there are a handful of species that inhabit cooler waters, and even some that survive in the very cold waters of [...]
I’ve just returned from an interesting dive trip to the central Mediterranean. I feel that this region is not recognized as it should be for the wealth of wildlife that it supports. Admittedly, a long history of exploitation has reduced many species to the point of extinction, but [...]
I just shared a post featuring basket stars, so I thought I’d share some images of their relatives, the featherstars, from a few locations round the world. I’ve spent many a dive watching featherstars moving in the current, their delicate arms deployed to catch as [...]
I recently had the pleasure of seeing a diver come across their first basket star. I was in the southern Red Sea on a night dive on a shallow off-shore reef. We were finning along through a series of coral pinnacles and bommies looking for the night-time critters that make this sort of diving [...]