https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sayGtQeMPwg&list=UUIkLAQc1zFAbpCpD5wDi6eg Here in New York on December 8th it snowed a just a bit, little fluffy white flakes flickering about the sky under the street lamps, creating a beautiful scene with the holidays ever so...
Procambarus spp. are burrowing crayfish that spend most of their lives in complex underground tunnels. They’ve thus taken on a bulldozer-like morphology – like supersized versions of reef pistol shrimps.
For someone who makes only a small amount of his income from underwater photography, I drag an awful lot of fragile equipment through airports across the world. Every time I hand over my precious camera gear, I fret about its survival and whether or not I’ll have to...
I've posted quite a bit about shipwrecks and just how fascinating they are. Not just for their history and the stories of the people who traveled aboard them, but for their tendency to become reefs - and given their construction - to become very diverse reefs. There...
To follow an earlier post, I wanted to share a few more images of pomacentrids from the Red Sea. I've got two more species that I know, and one more that I'm not quite sure about, so I would welcome any input from folks more knowledgeable than I. My first species is...
A recent article has caused controversy in the conservation world by suggesting that authorities across the globe should rethink their approach to removing oil rigs and other installations when they reach the end of their lives.…
Inspired by some photos of a colorful shipwreck from the Maldives, I've dug out some pics from a very different kind of shipwreck, one from much closer to home. In fact all of these images were taken within a few miles of each other off the coast of the northeast of...
I've been sharing a few shipwreck images lately, which I hope show the distinct character of the oceans and seas that have engulfed these piles of steel and iron. In this post I've got an old freighter in the relatively cool waters of Spain's Mediterranean coast....
